Spanish
Exciting News: A New Spanish Curriculum Is Coming! 🇪🇸
Following extensive research and consultation across the school, our pupils have spoken — and the majority have voted in favour of introducing a brand-new Spanish curriculum. We’re thrilled to share that the development of this curriculum is now underway, and we’ll be updating our website with full details soon.
We’re committed to making language learning engaging, inclusive, and meaningful for all our learners. ¡Vamos!
Purpose of study
Learning a foreign language is a liberation from insularity and provides an opening to other cultures. A high-quality languages education should foster pupils’ curiosity and deepen their understanding of the world. The teaching should enable pupils to express their ideas and thoughts in another language and to understand and respond to its speakers, both in speech and in writing. It should also provide opportunities for them to communicate for practical purposes, learn new ways of thinking and read great literature in the original language. Language teaching should provide the foundation for learning further languages, equipping pupils to study and work in other countries.
Aims
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.
Spanish Long Term Plan for KS2
Year 3 - Autumn
Unit 1 - Phonics
In these 4 sequential lessons, pupils will learn a selection of the key phonemes to facilitate accurate and authentic pronunciation as part of their language learning experience. Each of the 4 lessons is accompanied by a song that pupils will be encouraged to actively participate in, as well as a mouth mechanics guide video.
Unit 2 - I am learning Spanish
By the end of the unit, pupils will have the knowledge and skills to be able to introduce themselves, say how they feel and have a wider appreciation for the country/countries where Spanish is spoken.
Year 3 - Spring
Unit 3 - Seasons
In this unit, pupils will learn the four seasons of the year along with a key feature for each season in Spanish. By the end of the unit, pupils will have the skills and knowledge to say which is their favourite season and why.
Year 3 - Summer
Unit 4 - Fruits
In this unit, pupils will learn 10 fruits and be introduced to the simple opinions ‘I like’ and ‘I do not like’. By the end of the unit, pupils will have the knowledge and skills to be able to say which fruits they like and do not like in Spanish.
Year 4 - Autumn
Unit 1 - Phonics
Phonics recap from year 3.
Unit 2 - I know how
In this unit, pupils will learn 10 familiar activities that they know how or do not know how to do in Spanish. This is one of the first units introducing the negative form, allowing the children to build more interesting and complex sentences including the option of using conjunctions.
Year 4 - Spring
Unit 3 - Vegetables
In this unit, pupils will learn 10 common vegetables in their plural form with their definite articles. They will learn the basic transactional language required to take part in a role-play activity based on buying different quantities of vegetables from a market stall.
Year 4 - Summer
Unit 4 - Presenting myself
By the end of this unit, pupils will have the knowledge and skills to present themselves both orally and in written form in Spanish. This is one of the first units where previously learnt language will be integrated with newly acquired language, encouraging all pupils to use their growing bank of vocabulary. In this unit, pupils focus on asking questions as well as providing accurate replies. They will demonstrate a growing understanding of grammar to manipulate language and start to create sentences of their own using a range of personal details including name, age, where they live and nationality.
Year 5 - Autumn
Unit 1 - Phonics
Phonics recap from year 4.
Unit 2 - My Family
By the end of this unit, pupils will have the knowledge and skills to make a presentation about their own/a fictitious family in both spoken and written form in Spanish. Pupils will start to integrate previously learnt language with newly acquired language, encouraging more confident use of their growing bank of vocabulary. Pupils will demonstrate an increasing knowledge of grammar and the use of the possessive in Spanish to manipulate language, thus starting to create more personalised responses as the unit supports the change from 1st person singular to 3rd person singular.
Year 5 - Spring
Unit 3 - Do you have a pet?
By the end of this unit, pupils will have the knowledge and skills to present both orally and in written form about the pets they have and/or do not have in Spanish. They will move from 1st person singular to 3rd person singular verb usage so they are able to say what the pet is called and use conjunctions more confidently.
Year 5 - Summer
Unit 4 - Clothes
By the end of this unit, pupils will have the knowledge and skills necessary to describe what they are wearing in Spanish by colour. This is a unit that brings together much of the grammar covered in our Intermediate teaching type (nouns, gender, articles/determiners, plurality, adjectival agreement, 1st person verb conjugation) so that pupils can express what they are wearing in full sentences in different scenarios in Spanish.
Year 6 - Autumn
Unit 1 - Phonics
Phonics recap from year 5.
Unit 2 - My Home
By the end of this unit, pupils will have the knowledge and skills to present both orally and in written form about where they live and which rooms they have and do not have in their homes in Spanish. This is a unit that focuses on recycling previously learnt grammar, using it with new vocabulary, conjunctions and grammar, demonstrating a growing ability to create independent responses.
Year 6 - Spring
Unit 3 - What's the weather like?
By the end of this unit, pupils will have the knowledge and skills to describe the weather and present a weather forecast in the foreign language. This enables us to link the weather vocabulary with map work, compass points and general geography. This unit improves both language and cultural knowledge.
Year 6 - Summer
Unit 4 - Me in the world
In this unit, pupils will learn about other countries around the globe that speak the foreign language they are studying. They will also learn about the currencies, flags, cultural traditions and celebrations of those countries. This is a great unit, bringing together all the language covered in the various teaching types.