Spanish
VISION
At Littleborough, our Spanish teaching aims to instil a love of language learning and an awareness of other cultures. We want our children to develop the confidence to communicate in Spanish for practical purposes, using both written and spoken Spanish. Through our high quality lessons, we aim to give pupils a foundation for language learning that encourages and enables them to apply their skills to other languages, facilitates further language study and opens future opportunities to study and work abroad. We ensure that our Spanish lessons support our children to meet the National curriculum end of Key stage 2 attainment targets (there are no Key stage 1 attainment targets for languages). Through our teaching, we provide our children with a firm foundation of language learning. For this reason, we have a particular focus on the three building blocks of a language system:
- Phonics.
- Vocabulary.
- Grammar.
During their lessons, the children connect these building blocks of knowledge to create meaning in a variety of contexts, allowing them to develop their skills in the following strands:
- Language comprehension: listening and reading
- Language production: speaking and writing
We ensure that there are lots of opportunities for children to practise these 4 key areas.
