Modern Foreign Languages
Taught in: Year 7 - 11
Exam Board: AQA
MYP Criteria: A: Communicating Spoken and Visual Text, B: Comprehending Written and Visual Text, C: Communication, D: Using Language in Spoken and Written Form
Exam Board: AQA
MYP Criteria: A: Communicating Spoken and Visual Text, B: Comprehending Written and Visual Text, C: Communication, D: Using Language in Spoken and Written Form
The MFL department aims to encourage happy, confident and independent learners, leaving them with a life skill which will prove invaluable in the future. We encourage participation and aim to make lessons fun, interactive and challenging. We have very high standards and aim to work with each student to help him/her attain his/her personal best at every level.
Modern Foreign Languages sit in the Communications Faculty, alongside Drama, English Literature and English Language. Students study one primary language, French, and have the opportunity to add Spanish in Year 9 should this be desired/appropriate.
Years 7-9
Topics: students focus on aspects of their own life, including Family, Friendships, Introducing themselves as well as School and Holidays.
Grammar: past, present and future tenses are introduced as well as some other basic grammatical concepts such as negatives and prepositions.
Skills: students are introduced to the 4 skills concept of Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking and equal value is given to each of these. In line with the new guidelines for the new GCSE, translation is also introduced as a skill and vocabulary learning is expected and will be tested from year 7.
At KS4, Years 10-11
Students build on the foundation they have been given at KS3, to begin to discuss their town and environment, more complex aspects of family and lifestyle including hobbies. They also use real life resources to begin to grapple with the language spoken in France and Spain and may also be introduced to literature, film and other creative media in the target language.
Grammar is again crucial and students revise the core tenses and add to these the imperfect (descriptive) past tense and the conditional tense. Other higher level grammatical structures are introduced where appropriate to allow students to access the highest grades at GCSE.
The four skills, with the addition of Translation continue to be crucial and we encourage and foster increasing independence in all of these.
For more information, please email
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Modern Foreign Languages sit in the Communications Faculty, alongside Drama, English Literature and English Language. Students study one primary language, French, and have the opportunity to add Spanish in Year 9 should this be desired/appropriate.
Years 7-9
Topics: students focus on aspects of their own life, including Family, Friendships, Introducing themselves as well as School and Holidays.
Grammar: past, present and future tenses are introduced as well as some other basic grammatical concepts such as negatives and prepositions.
Skills: students are introduced to the 4 skills concept of Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking and equal value is given to each of these. In line with the new guidelines for the new GCSE, translation is also introduced as a skill and vocabulary learning is expected and will be tested from year 7.
At KS4, Years 10-11
Students build on the foundation they have been given at KS3, to begin to discuss their town and environment, more complex aspects of family and lifestyle including hobbies. They also use real life resources to begin to grapple with the language spoken in France and Spain and may also be introduced to literature, film and other creative media in the target language.
Grammar is again crucial and students revise the core tenses and add to these the imperfect (descriptive) past tense and the conditional tense. Other higher level grammatical structures are introduced where appropriate to allow students to access the highest grades at GCSE.
The four skills, with the addition of Translation continue to be crucial and we encourage and foster increasing independence in all of these.
For more information, please email
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