#MoorsidePAMFL – Curriculum Implementation Strategy Curriculum Intent We endeavour to provide our children with the skills and confidence to listen to, understand and communicate in Spanish, whilst giving them awareness of the value of learning a foreign language. Through mediums such as story, song, games and role-play, our children will find language learning stimulating and enjoyable. We strive to embed the key skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing in every lesson to enable children to apply their learning. The curriculum is designed to also develop children’s love of learning a language and curiosity and awareness of other countries and cultures. Whilst understanding the importance of communicating with others in our multi-cultural society.
Moorside Pedagogies Learning an additional language places a great cognitive demand on children and we prepare for this by ensuring lessons are built upon the Moorside pedagogies: Reduce cognitive load through dual coding, cohesive curriculum design, small steps to deep knowledge and consistent lesson design. Support the strengthening of schemata and knowledge building through retrieval activities, such as low stakes quizzing, knowledge organisers, and DNA tasks.
Curriculum Progression We aspire for children to learn an additional language to enable them to communicate organically with a wider audience. We will support children to develop their linguistic ability to express their thoughts and curiosity of the wider world and its many cultures. Children will revisit substantive vocabulary blocks, such as describing families or discussing hobbies, to develop their ability to converse. This will also be enhanced with targeted teaching of phoneme-grapheme correspondences, pronunciation and grammatical structures to enable children to truly understand the conversations they engage in. The progression grid outlines how these linguistic abilities are revisited and deepened over time.
Linguistic Drivers Disciplinary Concepts
Substantive Language Knowledge
We support children to develop additional language through We support children to make sense of substantive content and careful consideration and application of vocabulary and linguistic encode it for long-term learning. They will connect linguistic structures. This thinking is developed through our ‘core concepts’: schemata and declarative vocabulary banks that enable them to have a coherent and clear conversation. Listening THEME 1: Greetings, introducing yourself, describing Speaking appearance & personality, family, pets/animals Reading & Writing Phonics
THEME 2: Classroom instructions, shapes & colours,
Vocabulary
We recognise that studying an additional language requires a commitment to the discipline of linguistics. We value our children as ‘apprentice linguists’ and explore how the concepts of language acquisition support children to converse organically in another tongue.
Develop effective listening/speaking strategies.
Use a phonetic-informed approach to read and pronounce
alphabet, numbers, time, days & months, birthday, pencil case
Grammar / Structure
Apprentice Linguist
new vocabulary.
THEME 3: Food & mealtimes, weather & seasons, where I live, sport, music, opinions, culture
Develop an awareness of accurate grammatical structures used in other languages.
Organise and communicate their ideas.