Modern Foreign Languages

Spanish

At Albany Junior School, we are lucky enough to have Señora Creese as our Specialist Spanish teacher. We have a focus on speaking Castillian Spanish.

Essence

At Albany Junior School we teach languages by meeting the requirements of the KS2 national curriculum. Learning a foreign language is about providing experiences and an understanding of other cultures. A high quality languages education should foster pupil’s curiosity and deepen their understanding of the world.

We aim to achieve this knowledge by ensuring that all pupils can

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

§ speak with increasing confidence, fluency and spontaneity, finding ways of communicating what they want to say, including through discussion and asking questions, and continually improving the accuracy of their pronunciation and intonation.

Year 3 and 4 focus on letter sounds to help them with their Spanish reading and pronunciation. This is done through teaching greetings, colours, numbers, family, food and classroom instructions.

Year 5 and 6 continue to develop their reading and decoding skills, as well as more complex grammatical structures such as masculine and feminine and plurals. They consolidate previous learning and expand phrases using adjectives and to be able to give opinions.   

Attainment

Teaching is designed to take account of out five key curriculum drivers with skills and knowledge taken from our progression documents to ensure age appropriate content. Where appropriate, links are also made to ensure that children’s social, moral, spiritual and cultural development. 

Please find a few links below to support the love of languages! 

Rock and Roll learning numbers to 50 using Rockalingua!

https://rockalingua.com/videos/numbers-1-50

Create your child an account (or ask Mrs Cave) on Duolingo and learn through play! 

https://www.duolingo.com/

Log on to PurpleMash and search for 'Spanish' to find fun activities to support your child's learning. 

https://www.purplemash.com/sch/albanyjun#/