Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) at Northbrook Primary Academy is led by Mrs Astbury.
At Northbrook Primary Academy, we believe that MFL should foster pupils’ curiosity and deepen their understanding of other languages around the world. The teaching should enable pupils to express their ideas and thoughts in another language and 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 gain a new perspective on the world, encouraging them to understand their own culture and those of others.
Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) at Northbrook Primary Academy is led by Mrs Astbury.
At Northbrook Primary Academy, we believe that MFL should foster pupils’ curiosity and deepen their understanding of other languages around the world. The teaching should enable pupils to express their ideas and thoughts in another language and 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 gain a new perspective on the world, encouraging them to understand their own culture and those of others.
Intent
At Northbrook we believe that learning a language opens the door to huge potential. It is a necessary part of being a member of the multicultural society in which we live. We believe that many children really enjoy learning to speak another language. Learning a foreign language helps pupils to extend their communication skills and enhances selfâesteem. When our children leave Northbrook at the end of KS2 we aim to have instilled a love of language learning in all of our children and provided them with a good skill set to continue their language learning at KS3 and beyond.
Implementation
For Spanish at Northbrook, we use the 'Language Angels' scheme of work. This helps us to ensure that children are immersed in the target language and have opportunity to practice their speaking, listening, reading and writing skills. We are committed to early language learning and believe that the earlier a child is exposed to a foreign language, the faster and more effectively the language in question is acquired. We believe that learning a foreign language helps all pupils develop their interests and curiosity in the similarities and differences between themselves and others.
From Year 3 through to Year 6 we have built our own scheme of work using the Language Angels programme. This is progressive from Years 3 to 6, starting with Early Language Teaching before moving on to Intermediate and Progressive teaching. Each unit and each new year aims to build on the knowledge from the previous. The units include learning about countries, cultures, peoples and communities.
In addition, we promote Spanish outside of lesson. Every class from Reception to Year 6 have Spanish labels around the classroom. In addition, each class has the date up in Spanish each day.
Impact
Spanish has an increasingly strong presence at Northbrook, with our children starting to use the target language not just in their lessons, but outside of the lessons too at every opportunity. Children enjoy learning Spanish at Northbrook and their confidence with language learning is clearly evident in their work.
