Spanish
Intent
Our chosen Spanish scheme of work (Kapow) aims to instil a love of language learning and an awareness of other cultures.
We want pupils to develop the confidence to communicate in Spanish for practical purposes, using both written and spoken Spanish.
Through our scheme of work, 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.
It supports pupils to meet the National Curriculum end of Key stage 2 attainment targets (there are no Key stage 1 attainment targets for languages).
It aims to provide pupils with a firm foundation of language learning. For this reason, our scheme has been carefully planned and sequenced when to teach the three building blocks of a language system,
known as the Kapow Primary knowledge strands: ● Phonics ● Vocabulary ● Grammar
Pupils 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
Ample opportunities are provided to ensure that children practise new learning across all four modalities.
Implementation
Through Kapow Primary’s Spanish scheme, pupils are given opportunities to communicate for practical purposes around familiar subjects and routines.
The scheme provides balanced opportunities for communication in both spoken and written Spanish.
Pupils first develop confidence and accuracy with oral skills then increasingly apply their knowledge to extended reading and writing as they progress through Key stage 2.
Our Spanish scheme is a spiral curriculum, with key skills, grammar and vocabulary revisited with increasing complexity, allowing pupils to revise and build on their previous learning.
Cross-curricular links are included throughout our Spanish units, allowing children to make connections and apply their language skills to other areas of their learning.
Lessons incorporate a range of teaching strategies from independent tasks, paired and group work including role-play, language games and language detective work.
Our scheme of work focuses on developing what we term ‘language detective skills’ and developing an understanding of Spanish grammar, rather than committing to memory vast amounts of Spanish vocabulary.
Each unit is based on a specific theme with a motivating end outcome which gives the children a context and clear purpose for their learning. Guidance for adapting the learning is available for every lesson to ensure that lessons can be accessed and enjoyed by all. To help pupils retain their Spanish learning, there are opportunities to incorporate Spanish into the classroom environment throughout the week.
To support teachers in delivering a foreign language curriculum our chosen scheme includes multiple teacher videos to develop subject knowledge in each unit of lessons and support ongoing CPD.
Lessons include sections to explain key grammar and language, together with key vocabulary and a pronunciation sound guide. Lesson presentations include sound files so children can hear real Spanish speaker to further support their learning. In addition, there is also a comprehensive series of phoneme videos to build teachers’ and pupils’ speaking confidence.
Throughout KS2, Spanish is taught weekly to ensure a constant drip feed of skills and to support retention of knowledge.
Impact
The impact of our Spanish curriculum can be monitored continuously through both formative and summative assessment. Pupils frequently evaluate their own and their peers’ performance, respond to feedback and recognise their own progress. Every unit has a unit quiz and knowledge catcher which can be used at the end of the unit. Each lesson includes guidance to enable teachers to assess pupils against the learning objectives. An assessment spreadsheet is used to record children’s progress in each lesson to enable teachers to build a picture of their learning through each unit.
Our pupils should leave school equipped with a range of language-learning skills to enable them to study Spanish, or any other language, with confidence at Key stage 3.
The expected impact of following the Kapow Primary Spanish scheme of work is that children will:
- Demonstrate understanding of spoken language by listening and responding appropriately.
- Speak and read aloud with confidence and accuracy in pronunciation.
- Apply their understanding of phonics to make increasingly accurate attempts to read unfamiliar words, phrases and short texts.
- Be able to engage in purposeful dialogue in practical situations (e.g. ordering in a cafe, following directions) and express an opinion.
- Be able to identify word classes in a sentence and apply grammatical rules they have learnt.
- Have developed a range of language detective skills to tackle unfamiliar words in Spanish, English and other languages.
- Use a bilingual dictionary to support their language learning. Be able to construct short texts on familiar topics.
- Meet the end of Key stage 2 stage expectations outlined in the national curriculum for languages.
- Develop a greater awareness of the wider world and an appreciation for the role of language learning in promoting cross-cultural understanding.
