Languages taught: French & Spanish
Sets / Mixed ability: Sets
Hours per week: 2hrs in KS3, 3hrs in KS4
Dual linguists: Only if they opt to study a 2nd language in Year 10. We alternate between French and Spanish for whole year groups. Current Year 7 are Spanish and Year 8 French etc
Since the beginning!
We love:
The very clear roadmap of progress with systematic revisiting planned for.
Introducing 10 different categories of words per week alongside a grammar point
The strong focus on culture
How well organised SOW / resources / supporting documents are
Systematic phonics practice
Paired grammar teaching
Teaching grammar rules through receptive practice before moving onto productive use
Every lesson starts off positively with tasks they can all do – phonics!
They can retain more over a longer period of time
More confident and enthusiastic as they are enjoying success every lesson
Every lesson starts off positively with tasks they can all do – phonics!
Beautiful accents – although sometimes I miss their little Geordie French accents !! 😊
Getting all staff on board: we built up gradually before fully adopting and now all staff are using with great results.
Initially we found it difficult for lower proficiency learners, but we have overcome this with careful differentiation of the SOW and lessons / language guides and it is now proving to be succesful.
The jam-packed SOW: We spend longer than 2 lessons on each week – we cover 7-8 weeks of work from the NCELP SOW over a 10 week period. But the resources allow for this and are adaptable which is fantastic.
We have foundation + higher SOW now in place
All lessons are fully differentiated: support, core + higher
Language guides have space to write sentences – foundation + higher versions too
We’ve written our own assessments – 3 per year to marry with out data entry windows
Explicit revisit tasks for our starter every lesson – fun and engaging
Added in extended writing tasks to support our school marking policies