Communicating and thinking in different ways.

Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) at Haddon allows children to be confident communicating in their own and in another language. At Haddon, the language of choice is Spanish given this is widely spoken around the world and the secondary school we feed into teaches the language from Year 7. The children have the tools and confidence to 'have a go' and the subject knowledge to begin to communicate and connect across the world. Children are enthusiastic and understand the relevance and 'real world' application of learning and applying Spanish to their life, futures and their community. MFL teaching and learning nurtures children to show understanding, curiosity, compassion, tolerance and the ability to learn from children/people from other cultures. Overcoming language barriers to learn from other cultures, and having the curiosity to want to immerse themselves, has never been easier than in this digital society - we need to make sure we give the children the tools and opportunities to use this.

Aims of the MFL Curriculum:

Our MFL curriculum aims for pupils to:

• 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
• 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.

At Haddon, our curriculum is based on the National Curriculum for Key Stages 1 & 2 and the Early Years Foundation Stage Framework. These documents stipulate the expectations which inform the intent of our curriculum, ensuring a high ambition for all. In addition, we teach Spanish throughout school, despite it only being a requirement in KS2.

Spanish is taught using Language Angles. Statements from the National Curriculum for MFL have been broken down and sequenced into strands and year groups. We call this a key knowledge progression document (KKPD). It contains key substantive, procedural and disciplinary knowledge that children need to know and remember.