MFL Curriculum Intent
We offer French or Spanish as language options to students. If you have a preference which language your child studies, please indicate this on admission and we will do our best to accommodate this. Students continue with this language until the end of Year 9, at which point they are able to choose to continue to study it as a GCSE option.
MFL Staff
- Mr J Bull: Learning Director MFL: French, Spanish and Japanese (offered as an extra-curricular club)
- Mrs M Merino-Sharratt: 2nd in MFL: Spanish and French
- Mrs V Ahui: Teacher of MFL: French and Spanish
- Miss M Alonso: Teacher of MFL: Spanish and French
MFL Curriculum Intent
Languages are a part of the cultural richness of The Bemrose School and the world in which our pupils will go on to live and work. Learning languages contributes to mutual understanding and a sense of global citizenship, necessary for an outward looking person in this changing world. This is what we want for our pupils. We also aim to build on the existing linguistic skills of our bilingual pupils while helping all the pupils learn a new language.
The languages team provides a culturally rich experience of language learning in either French or Spanish, as well as in a range of home, heritage and community languages. We integrate phonics, vocabulary recall skills and teaching of grammar with new technology to engage our pupils as we make learning a new language relevant and interactive.
We build on a foundation of core grammar knowledge, building up knowledge of tenses and revisiting them with increasing levels of complexity. We focus on recall of key vocabulary in each topic across the four skill areas (speaking, listening, reading and writing) as well as teaching translation skills in preparation for their exams.
We support pupils that already have the ability to speak and write in one of the community languages available at GCSE and A-level, to sit their exams during KS4 and KS5. We are pleased to offer this provision, recognising that bilingualism can improve career chances.
To broaden our pupils’ understanding of the world around them, pupils will learn to appreciate different countries and cultures as we incorporate festivals, traditions and places of interest into our teaching.
KS3 Assessment Plan:
Over years 7, 8 and 9, students complete two checkpoint tests and one longer assessment per term. The assessment plan is the same whether students study French or Spanish.
Autumn Term
- Year 7: Checkpoint 1: Phonics, Checkpoint 2: Vocabulary, Assessment: Reading and Listening.
- Year 8: Checkpoint 1: Grammar, Checkpoint 2: Vocabulary, Assessment: Writing.
- Year 9: Checkpoint 1: Phonics, Checkpoint 2: Vocabulary, Assessment: Reading and Listening.
Spring Term
- Year 7: Checkpoint 1: Grammar, Checkpoint 2: Vocabulary, Assessment: Speaking.
- Year 8: Checkpoint 1: Phonics, Checkpoint 2: Vocabulary, Assessment: Reading and Listening.
- Year 9: Checkpoint 1: Grammar, Checkpoint 2: Vocabulary, Assessment: Writing.
Summer Term
- Year 7: Checkpoint 1: Translation, Checkpoint 2: Vocabulary, Assessment: Reading and Listening.
- Year 8: Checkpoint 1: Grammar, Checkpoint 2: Vocabulary, Assessment: Speaking.
- Year 9: Checkpoint 1: Translation, Checkpoint 2: Vocabulary, Assessment: Baseline.
KS4 Assessment Plan:
Over years 10 and 11, students are assessed half-termly.
Year 10:
- Summer 2 – Baseline test
- Autumn 1 – Writing, describing a picture and writing a short essay.
- Autumn 2 – Reading and listening
- Spring 1 – Speaking, reading aloud, role-play task and describing a picture.
- Spring 2 – Reading and listening
- Summer 1 – Writing a longer essay.
Year 11 :
- Summer 2 – PPE Exams in Reading and Writing
- Autumn 1 – Speaking, structured conversation
- Autumn 2 – PPE Exams in Listening, Reading, Speaking and Writing
- Spring 1 – Speaking exam practice and Writing a longer essay
- Spring 2 – PPE Exams in Listening, Reading and Writing
