Widden Primary School intends to offer a relevant, vibrant and ambitious foreign languages curriculum that will inspire and excite our pupils using a wide variety of topics and themes. The language we have chosen to explore is Spanish. In the first instance this will create a community of Primary Language learners, with the ultimate aim being that pupils will feel willing and able to continue studying languages beyond key stage 2. 

Our programme of study, using Language Angels, is clearly outlined in both long-term and short-term planning, ensuring that the foreign language knowledge of our pupils progresses within each academic year. The four key language learning skills; listening, speaking, reading and writing will be taught and all necessary grammar will be covered in an age-appropriate way across the primary phase, enabling pupils to apply their learning in a variety of contexts. 

The intent is that all pupils will develop a genuine interest and positive curiosity about foreign languages, celebrating the same diversity across the globe as is found in Widden Primary School’s own broad and rich diversity of heritages. Learning a second language will also offer pupils the opportunity to explore relationships between language and identity, to maintain our sense of integrity as our pupils develop a deeper understanding of other cultures and the world around them with a better awareness of self, others and cultural differences. The intention is that they will be working towards becoming life-long language learners.

Conversation in Spanish between dos amigas

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