The Frides Way
At St Frideswide we believe that our languages curriculum should support children in deepening their understanding and curiosity of the world. As such, we try wherever possible to provide opportunities for them to communicate for practical purposes, interleaving language teaching with teaching of other curriculum subjects and throughout their day. Our children should leave us equipped with a strong foundation for further language learning, confident to be able to communicate with others in another language.
We teach Spanish weekly as a discrete subject. Our curriculum supports the 3 pillars of language learning (grammar, phonics & vocabulary) in a fun and interactive way with skills and knowledge being revisited and incrementally developed.
When choosing to teach Spanish at St Frideswide we carefully considered our cohort and identified that teaching this community language would provide the opportunity to allow some of our EAL speakers to be experts in the classroom whilst providing all children opportunities to:
- Speak with good intonation and pronunciation.
- Develop fluency in reading.
- Develop fluency and imagination in writing.
- Have an awareness of the culture of the countries where the language is spoken.
- Have a passion for languages and a commitment to the subject.
- Have the ability to use language creatively and spontaneously.
- Be independent in their studies and the ability to draw upon a wide range of resources.
