Spanish

 Spanish
at St. John’s Junior School

“To learn a language is to have one more window from which to view the world”

(Chinese Proverb)

At St John’s Junior School we believe that the learning of a foreign language provides a valuable educational, social and cultural experience for pupils. 

Spanish from Year 3 to Year 6. The planning is designed to balance elements of speaking, listening, reading and writing in each topic. The older pupils also learn more about the grammar of the language.

Topics covered over the year include: Greetings, Numbers, Colours, Likes and Dislikes, School, Solar System, Food, Weather, Seasons and Story Telling.

 Lessons are structured to approach learning in a variety of ways: use of role-play, songs and games, matching, reading and writing activities. 

Learning a language should be fun and is an active way of learning about different cultures and their traditions, as well as comparing their way of living with our own. This should foster our pupil’s curiosity and deepen their understanding of the world.

The national curriculum for languages aims to ensure that all pupils: 

• 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

• can write at varying lengths, 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