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Plaistow Primary School

Modern Foreign Languages - Spanish

At Plaistow, we see the teaching of languages as a gateway into learning about other cultures as well as preparing our children for life in a diverse and multi-cultural modern world. 

We have made the decision to teach children Spanish from Nursery to Year Six.

The National Curriculum for languages aims to ensure that all pupils:

  • 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
  • can write at varying length, for different purposes and audiences, using the variety of grammatical structures that they have learnt
  • discover and develop an appreciation of a range of writing in the language studied.

Curriculum Design

Although it is not a National Curriculum requirement, we start our language learning in the Early Years and continue through to Year 6. We teach Spanish using resources from Language Angels, whose sequenced units of work ensure progression from EYFS, to KS1 and KS2. The platform allows the school to create a Modern Foreign Languages curriculum that is flexible, tailored and bespoke to the needs of our children.

Plaistow Primary School Curriculum Map for Modern Foreign Languages