Our MFL Aims

We want to liberate our children from insularity and provide an interest in and an awareness of other cultures. We want them to understand that foreign language learning is learning the art of communicating and understanding how cultures have differences and similarities, and that the differences are exciting. We want our pupils to know that even if they do not understand everything that they see or hear, they are still able to respond, join in and communicate. We want them to learn respectful ways of communicating with different people without showing ignorance or arrogance towards other languages and cultures, fostering our pupils’ curiosity and deepening their understanding of the world through the experience provided by learning another language – Spanish. Respond to written and spoken language. Make links between the grammatical structures learned in the MFL and those they are learning in English. Write at an increasing length in the target language.

Our MFL Curriculum

We have developed a clear, sequential approach to the teaching of MFL at St Luke’s. The scheme of work followed by the children has been devised by our own MFL specialist teacher in collaboration with other specialist teachers from the local authority to ensure that the curriculum is tailored specifically for our children at St. Luke’s. Each unit of work has been carefully planned to build on prior learning and develop the skills and knowledge that the children need as they move through the school and is in line with the National Curriculum. Great care was taken to choose particular words that contain the range of phonetic sounds necessary at the start of our curriculum, and further care was taken- by consulting with local high school MFL teachers- to ensure that, by the end of our programme, our children are ready for the high school curriculum.

Many members of staff have shown the desire and readiness to up-level their own language skills by taking part in the Erasmus+ scheme which involved attending a language school in Spain, being immersed in Spanish language and culture for a week