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Our Approach to Learning
We aim to give students opportunities to develop their listening, speaking, reading and writing skills and to express themselves with increasing confidence, independence and creativity.
Curriculum
Languages are part of the cultural richness of our society and the world in which we live and work. Learning languages contributes to mutual understanding, a sense of global citizenship and personal fulfilment. Students learn to appreciate different countries, cultures, communities and people. By making comparisons, they gain insight into their own culture and societies whilst understanding and communicating in another language is a lifelong skill for education, employment and leisure in this country and throughout the world.
Students studying at Key Stage 3 attend four lessons of MFL over the two week timetable. In all years, students achieve and are assessed in four skills; listening, reading, writing and speaking.
Students studying at Key Stage 4 are able to study GCSE Spanish and GCSE German will be offered for those currently studying it in the future. Students follow the AQA course. This means students are assessed in all four skill areas; listening, speaking, reading and writing over a two year course. The students completed controlled assessments in speaking and writing and are examined in listening and speaking.
