Subject Name: French / Spanish

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Department Vision and Ethos

 

INTENT:

 

Our intent is to provide our students with the skills and knowledge that allow them to:

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• become successful learners who enjoy learning, make progress and achieve

  • become confident individuals who are able to live safe, healthy and fulfilling lives

  • become responsible citizens who make a positive contribution to society

  • understand and respond to spoken and written language from a variety of authentic sources

  • speak with increasing confidence, fluency and spontaneity, enabling them to communicate increasingly accurately, including through discussion and asking questions, whilst improving the quality of their pronunciation and intonation

  • write at varying length, for different purposes and audiences, using the variety of grammatical structures that they have learnt

  • discover and develop an appreciation of a range of writing in Spanish/French

• promote intercultural understanding

• have a more profound understanding of their own language and culture

• develop the skills and the confidence to understand and speak in the target language with real purpose

• prepare to become global citizens

• develop cultural capital 

• develop a competitive edge for future careers 

• relate language learning to cross curricular issues and current affairs

• enjoy a first-hand experience of foreign language and culture via trips and use of authentic classroom materials