Spanish

Autumn Term: Introductions (Spanish alphabet, greetings and farewells, classroom language, introducing yourself, age, birthdays, personality, expressing emotions).

Spring Term: Describing yourself (personality, hair and eyes) and talking about your family.

Summer Term: Describing your school including facilities, your opinions on subjects and teachers.

A successful scholar after Year 7 will:

• Acquire a wide range of vocabulary on the topics studied and know high frequency words.
• Understand key grammatical concepts: gender agreement, word order, infinitives, present tense endings and main irregular verbs.
• Understand pronunciation rules and be able to say words correctly and confidently.
• Express and justify opinions about the topics studied.
• Use Spanish in lessons, for example, to ask for a pen or to answer simple questions.

Autumn Term: Describing your school including facilities, your opinions on subjects and teachers.

Spring Term: Describing your town and your area and explaining activities you do in your town.

Summer Term: Describing your house and your ideal house and explaining what you like doing at home.

A successful scholar after Year 8 will:

• Acquire a wide range of vocabulary on the topics studied and know high frequency words.
• Understand key grammatical concepts: gender agreement, word order, infinitives, present tense endings, future tense and main irregular verbs.
• Understand pronunciation rules and be able to say words correctly and confidently.
• Express and justify more complex opinions about the topics studied.
• Use complex language: connectives, structures followed by an infinitive, comparative structures and refer to two time frames.
• Use Spanish in lessons at any opportunity.

Autumn Term: Describing activities at home and in town.

Spring Term: Describing your holiday and referring to past and future holiday.

Summer Term: Discussing if you have a healthy routine and describing food and drink.  

A successful scholar after Year 9 will:

• Acquire a wide range of vocabulary on the topics studied and know high frequency words.
• Understand key grammatical concepts: gender agreement, word order, infinitives, present tense endings, future and past tense and main irregular verbs.
• Understand pronunciation rules and be able to pronounce unknown words correctly and confidently.
• Express and justify complex opinions about the topics studied.
• Use complex language: connectives, structures followed by an infinitive, comparative structures and combine three time frames.
• Use Spanish in lessons at any opportunity.

Autumn Term: Local, national, international and global areas of interest – travel and tourism

Spring Term: Identity and culture – me, my family and friends; technology in everyday life and free-time activities

Summer Term: Local, national, international and global areas of interest – Home town, neighbourhood and region

A successful scholar after Year 10 will:

• Acquire a wide range of vocabulary of the topics studied.
• Demonstrate the ability to express themselves spontaneously using three time frames using grammatical knowledge which is complex and varied.
• Answer questions confidently on a range of topics.
• Express and develop their opinions using a variety of complex language.
• Use their linguistic knowledge to infer meaning from unfamiliar language.
• Be confident in the pronunciation of Spanish words.

Autumn Term: Local, national, international and global areas of interest – Home town, neighbourhood and region

Spring Term: Identity and culture – me, my family and friends; technology in everyday life and free-time activities

Summer Term: Local, national, international and global areas of interest – Social and global issues

A successful scholar after Year 11 will:

• Have acquired a wide range of vocabulary of the topics studied and required for their GCSE examination.
• Demonstrate the ability to express themselves spontaneously using a wide range of tenses.
• Answer questions and extend their ideas using complex language confidently on a range of topics.
• Express and develop their opinions using a variety of complex language.
• Use their linguistic knowledge to infer meaning from unfamiliar language.
• Be confident in the pronunciation of Spanish words including unfamiliar ones.