Learning a language gives us a multitude of opportunities, including many different career opportunities!
It improves cognitive ability, as well as social skills, communication and confidence. Learning a language increases awareness of the world around you and to make you more open-minded to other people and their culture.
The National Curriculum for Languages aims to ensure that all children:
- Understand and respond to spoken and written language from a variety of authentic sources.
- Are able to speak with increasing confidence, fluency and spontaneity, finding ways of communicating what they want to say, including through discussion and asking questions, and that they are continually improving the accuracy of their pronunciation and intonation.
- Can 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 the language studied.
A high quality languages education should foster children’s curiosity and deepen their understanding of the world. We believe that the learning of a language provides a valuable educational, social and cultural experience for our pupils. It helps them to develop communication skills in speaking, listening, reading and writing, with an aim of making substantial progress in one language.
Accessing first quality teaching of French helps children develop skills that will open further opportunities later in life. The teaching of French at KS2 provides an appropriate balance of spoken and written language and lays the foundations for further foreign language learning at KS3. We believe that learning another language gives children a new and broader perspective on the world, encouraging them to understand their own cultures and those of others.
The Languages Programme of Study for Key Stage 2 was used alongside the Key Stage 2 Framework for Languages to ensure our curriculum is progressive and fosters pupils’ curiosity and deepens their understanding of the world.
Languages at Catchgate
Our languages curriculum has been delivered successfully by Lingotots for over 10 years. Lingotots' qualified teachers, who are often native speakers, deliver the best possible Spanish teaching.
Please read the handbook below to see how they cater for our school.
Language Curriculum
The schools 4-year KS2 scheme of work is designed to fulfil the requirements of the KS2 Programme of Study, and to provide learning experiences that engage, enthuse and motivate all of our learners.
To aid progression within our medium-term planning, we draw on the non-statutory KS2 languages framework guidance. We regularly review our planning.
In line with Framework guidelines, KS2 pupils learn languages for no less than 60 minutes per week with our Spanish specialist teacher. The languages curriculum is aligned wherever appropriate with the learning context, content and aims of other subject areas, to enhance the cohesion of learning experiences for our pupils.
Teaching of Spanish is also taught in Year 2 as an introduction to the language through use of phonics, games and activities.
School celebrates the language teaching by joining in with international events, such as World Day of Languages and inviting parents in to workshops and presentations.
