Modern Foreign Languages
We aim to inspire students to embark on a life-long enjoyment of languages. We aim to develop pupils’ ability to understand and communicate effectively in French and Spanish through enthusiastic participation in all activities and to give them a feeling of success and achievement whatever their ability.
We will achieve this through:
- Building pupils’ confidence in using the new languages for real oral and written communication;
- Extending pupils’ knowledge of how languages work;
- Exploring similarities and differences between the target languages and English;
- Developing pupils’ independence in using the new language through their understanding and use of key structures;
- Fostering a positive attitude and interest in other cultures.
We believe that exposing young people to a breadth of languages will give them essential skills to prepare for a competitive global marketplace and to interact in a culturally diverse society. Therefore all pupils in our Prep School start learning French from Nursery, and start learning Spanish from Form 5.
We create a stimulating environment where pupils are guided to use their language skills to communicate in a range of contexts. We achieve this through exciting and active tasks such as storytelling, role-plays and reading authentic resources.
We recognise the importance of overseas trips in broadening the children’s cultural awareness and the opportunities which present themselves in allowing them the chance to practise their linguistic skills in a real life setting. We therefore run a French trip for pupils Form 7 each year.
