Spanish
Ash Grove Academy offers a relevant, broad, vibrant and ambitious Spanish curriculum that uses a wide variety of topics and themes designed to engage, inspire and excite our pupils.
All Key Stage 2 classes are offered high-quality Spanish lessons delivered through Language Angels. Through this programme, children will progressively acquire, use and apply a growing bank of vocabulary, language skills and grammatical knowledge organised around age-appropriate topics and themes, learning to speak, listen, read and write in Spanish.
The curriculum below outlines what each year group will be taught and when. Units are progressive within themselves as subsequent lessons within a unit build on the language and knowledge taught in previous lessons. As pupils progress though the lessons in a unit, they will build their knowledge and develop the complexity of the language they use.
Children will develop confidence and competence in Spanish. As their skills and knowledge grow over time, children will be able to access longer text and will be encouraged to formulate their own, more personalised responses based on a much wider bank of vocabulary, linguistic structures and grammatical knowledge. They will be able to create longer pieces of spoken and written language and are encouraged to use a variety of conjunctions, adverbs, adjectives, opinions and justifications.
The opportunity to assess pupil learning and progression in the key language skills (speaking, listening, reading and writing) takes place at the end of each 6-week teaching unit. Pupils may also complete self-assessment grids to ensure they are also aware of their own progress which they can keep as a record of their progress.
