At Spen Valley, we believe that learning another language opens students' minds to a world of new opportunities and helps to build:

• confidence
• resilience
• independence 
• understanding
• tolerance

We aim to develop student's awareness of different cultures, broaden their horizons and create a "buzz", a desire for learning languages. We aim to develop a culture of error to increase students confidence in speaking another language

Implementation

At Ks3, we aim to support students develop a cultural awareness and an understanding of the core vocabulary and grammar needed to develop speaking skills, writing skills and listening and reading skills, in the target language. We want our students to feel confident about expressing their ideas, opinions and thoughts in another language. 

Year 7 and 8 (carousel of 8 weeks): students will be able to build sentences, using present tense, connectives, express opinions, adjectives,  negatives, intensifiers and an idiom.

 Year 9: students will be able to express opinions, use sophisticated phrases, connectives, frequency words, 3 tenses, adjectives, time frames, negative sentences. Develop their confidence with speaking and writing based on various topics. 

 KS4 : students will be able to express opinions, use sophisticated phrases, connectives, frequency words, 3 tenses, adjectives, time frames, negative sentences, including different pronouns. Develop their confidence with speaking ,  writing, reading and listening skills based on various topics.