INTENT  

Maltby Redwood Academy uses the Language Angels scheme of work and resources to ensure we offer a relevant, broad, vibrant and ambitious foreign languages curriculum that will inspire and excite our pupils using a wide variety of topics and themes.

The content will be continuously updated and reviewed annually, creating a dynamic programme of study that will be clearly outlined in both long-term and short-term planning. Units will be sequenced in a way that builds progression and allows children to revisit prior learning.

The four key language learning skills; listening, speaking, reading and writing will be taught in all units and all necessary grammar will be covered in an age-appropriate way. This will enable pupils to use and apply their learning in a variety of contexts, embedding skills and knowledge which will support future language learning.

The intent is to utilise our connections with Maltby Academy, to provide pupils in Year 6 with enhanced teaching from a specialised languages teacher, to best prepare them for their transition into secondary education.

We intent to encourage all children to develop a genuine interest and positive curiosity about foreign languages, finding them enjoyable and stimulating. The intention is that the children will be working towards becoming life-long language learners.

IMPLEMENTATION  

All classes will have access to a very high-quality foreign languages curriculum using the Language Angels scheme of work and resources. This will progressively develop pupil skills in foreign languages through regularly taught and well-planned weekly lessons in Years 3 – 5. Links with Maltby Academy will mean that Year 6 pupils will be taught by a specialist language teacher weekly. This learning is sequenced to act as a transition between the taught units in Year 5 and the Spanish learning delivered in Key Stage 3.

Children will progressively acquire, use and apply a growing bank of vocabulary, language skills and grammatical knowledge organised around age-appropriate topics and themes.

The planning of different levels of challenge and which units to teach at each stage of the academic year will be addressed dynamically and will be reviewed in detail annually as units are updated and added to the scheme.

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. Knowledge and awareness of required and appropriate grammar concepts will be taught throughout all units at all levels of challenge.

Units, where possible and appropriate, will be linked to class topics and cross curricular themes. Children will build on previous knowledge gradually as their foreign language lessons continue to recycle, revise and consolidate previously learnt language whilst building on all four language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing.

Pupil learning and progression will be assessed at regular intervals with a formal assessment at the end of each unit.

IMPact  

All pupils will be expected to achieve their full potential by encouraging high expectations and excellent standards in their foreign language learning -the ultimate aim being that pupils will feel willing and able to continue studying languages beyond key stage 2.