Modern Foreign Languages at All Saints'

Learning a Modern Foreign Language is such an important thing to do - for children and adults. Helping our children to learn to speak and understand another language widens their horizons and broadens travel opportunities, helping to make adventures to other countries even more fun! It helps our children learn more about, and appreciate, other cultures around the world. 

At All Saints' we learn to speak and understand SPANISH!

Through their experience of learning another language they are encouraged to continue to be curious about all languages.

We want our children to develop their understanding of the Spanish vocabulary they hear and read and to feel confident to express themselves in conversation with another person, and to understand another person's response.

We want them to understand more about how the Spanish language works and to explore differences (and similarities) between French and English in particular. 

Each year, we have a Spanish Foreign Language Assistant (an SLA) who joins our school to help us all to learn Spanish. All our children embrace the learning of this language and are helped to develop: 

1. a positive attitude to the Spanish language recognising this language as an interesting and valuable subject

2. an understanding of the Spanish language and culture

3. a range of learning strategies: working collaboratively and independently

4. confidence in conversing in Spanish

5. an understanding or the importance of Spanish and other foreign languages in everyday life

We learn Spanish with the help of our FLA, using a variety of stimulating and active teaching approaches such as:

- reading stories

- singing songs and rhymes

- playing games

- role play

- repetition, repetition, repetition

- practicing clear and precise pronunciation

- taking time to learn and reinforce each new skill

- reviewing and recalling previously learnt vocabulary and grammar skills

- having fun!