Spanish Curriculum Coverage and Progression
In line with the new National curriculum, pupils will be taught to:
- understand and respond to spoken and written language from a variety of authentic sources.
- speak with increasing confidence, fluency and spontaneity, finding ways of communicating what they want to say, including through discussion and asking questions, and continually improving the accuracy of their pronunciation and intonation
- write at varying lengths for different purposes and audiences
- use a variety of grammatical structures that they have learnt and understand
- discover and develop an appreciation of a range of writing in the language studied.
At WDPS we teach Spanish as our curriculum language. One of the main reasons for this is that many of our parents and pupils choose Spain, or a Spanish speaking country as their holiday destination of choice.
Pupils are provided with a balance of spoken and written language, the younger Phase 2 (Y3 and Y4) pupils using more spoken language than the older Phase 3 (Y5 and Y6) pupils who also concentrate more on writing at greater length.
Pupils are encouraged to communicate ideas, facts and feelings in speech and in writing focussing on familiar and routine matters. Pupils also describe people, places, things and actions.
Pupils are taught to listen carefully, show understanding by joining in and responding to the spoken or written language in many ways, including through actions.
Pupils take part in conversations and role play where they ask and answer questions, express opinions and respond to others.
We teach songs, poems, stories and rhymes to help pupils remember, appreciate and explore the patterns and sounds of language. Pupils also learn how to structure a sentence by taking the part of a sentence and putting it together orally and then in writing.
Pupils learn the sound each letter makes and are then able to read with accurate pronunciation – Spanish is much easier for the pupils in this respect because each letter nearly always has the same sound.
Pupils are encouraged to read carefully and show understanding of words, phrases and simple writing. This will be by labelling, completing sentences or answering sentences on texts. To help pupils broaden their vocabulary and understand new words that are introduced into written material, we provide vocabulary lists/glossaries for the older pupils and pictures with words for the younger pupils. Word searches are a good way of further increasing their vocabulary. We use the Education City resource as well as other language teaching websites to help introduce new vocabulary in an exciting and fun way.
Yr 3 Spanish
Here is the Spanish overview with a list of content, skills and main task types.
Songs are used regularly to help recall the language learned and improve pronunciation and fluency. |
Pupils are encouraged at all times to strive to work things out for themselves, in pairs or groups. Pronunciation, memory and pattern finding are all used to help pupils become more confident in their language abilities. | This term continues with the food topic as we learn about the tapas tradition in Spain. Children are encouraged to share their experiences eating Spanish food.
We end this term with a cultural fact file about Spain. Pupils look at key cities and their location in Spain, using the points of the compass. |
Yr 4 Spanish
Cultural lessons include the Day of the Dead celebrated in Mexico in Oct-Nov and Spanish Christmas celebrations. |
Pupils learn the language for family members. They re-tell the story 'The giant turnip'. They learn how to say 'Tengo un/una ..que se llama...' I have a ...called... and apply this also in the context of pets. They also use adjectives for describing physical description (hair and eyes). They use key verbs in the 3rd person singular and plural: --> tiene (has), es (is), tienen (have), son (are).
Cultural lessons include Easter vocabulary in Spanish and how it’s celebrated in Spain. | Summer Term
End of term project: Spain fact file. Pupils learn some key facts about Spain and the Spanish culture: geographical information, info about main cities, flag, famous monuments, currency, etc |
Yr 5 Spanish
Name, age, birthday, numbers to 31, stationery items, classroom instructions.
Cultural lessons include the Day of the Dead celebrated in Mexico in Oct-Nov and Spanish Christmas celebrations. |
Cultural lessons include Easter vocabulary in Spanish and how it’s celebrated in Spain |
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Yr 6 Spanish
Cultural lessons include the Day of the Dead celebrated in Mexico in Oct-Nov and Spanish Christmas celebrations. |
vocabulary in Spanish and how it’s celebrated in Spain. | Year 6 is a particularly busy and full year, including SATs, transition days and residential trips in the last term. For that reason, I have allowed the material from the Spring Term to be spread flexibly across the Summer Term.
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