At Mount St Joseph, we believe that language teaching should serve real world communication and our aim is for our students to become confident linguists who are enthusiastic, engaged, and challenged in their learning with an openness and appreciation of other cultures.

Students will embark on an exciting journey during which they will speak with increasing confidence, fluency, and spontaneity, finding ways of communicating what they want to say through discussion and asking questions, and continually improving the accuracy of their pronunciation and intonation.  They will start to understand and respond to spoken and written language from a variety of authentic sources.  They will write at varying lengths, for different purposes and audiences, using the variety of grammatical structures that they have learned and they will discover and develop an appreciation of a range of writing in the language studied.

Year 7

French:

Module 1: Back to school (Learning basic French)

Module 2: School (Giving opinion about school and subjects we study)

Module 3: Free-time (Explaining what we do during our free-time)

Module 4: My family (Talking about and describing family members)

Module 5: My town (Talking about where we live).

Spanish:

Module 1: All about my life (Learning basic Spanish)

Module 2: Free-time (Explaining what we do during our free-time)

Module 3: School (Giving opinion about school and subjects we study)

Module 4: My family and friends (Giving personality and physical descriptions)

Module 5: My town (Talking about where we live).

 

Year 8

French:

Module 1: Holidays (Talking about holidays at home and abroad)

Module 2: Festivals (Describing festivals in francophone countries)

Module 3: World of media (Online platforms, TV and cinema)

Module 4: My region (Talking about what surrounds my town )

Module 5: The world of sports (Talking about my favorite activity).

Spanish:

Module 1: Holidays (Talking about holidays at home and abroad)

Module 2: My life (Talking about who we are)

Module 3: Food  (Giving opinion on foods and diets)

Module 4: Hobbies (Takingh about how we spend our time)

Module 5: Summer trip (learning to get around in a different city).

 

Year 9

French:

Module 1: My VIPs (Talking about relationships)

Module 2: My future (Describing career goals)

Module 3: Freetime (Music, reading and other activities)

Module 4: The world around me (Talking about social issues )

Module 5: My planet (Talking about the environment).

Spanish:

Module 1: Freetime (Music, reading and other activities)

Module 2: My future (Describing career goals)

Module 3: Healthy living  (Guidelines for a healty life)

Module 4: My planet (Talking about the environment).

Module 5: Madrid (Virtual trip to the capital).

 

For each half-term there is a Knowledge Expert Sheet which outlines the essential knowledge that all students in Year 7, 8 and 9 need to know.

Students demonstrate their depth of knowledge by completing their Knowledge Expert Books.
 

At Mount St Joseph, students further develop their resilience skills and self-efficacy in the context of language acquisition at Key Stage 4.  We aim to ensure success at examinations through developing students’ abilities to communicate confidently and coherently in speech and writing, conveying what they want to say with increasing accuracy.  Our students will also develop skills in expressing and developing their thoughts and ideas spontaneously and fluently.  They will build on previous knowledge to be able to listen to and understand clearly articulated, standard speech at near-normal speed.  Students will acquire new knowledge, skills, and ways of thinking through the ability to understand and respond to a rich range of authentic spoken and written material, adapted and abridged, as appropriate, including literary texts.

We believe that it is important that students are given every opportunity to develop awareness and understanding of the culture and identity of the countries and communities where the target language is spoken in order to increase their cultural capital and understanding of the wider world.

The language learning journey at Mount St Joseph will prepare students by developing language learning skills both for immediate use and to prepare them for further language study and use in school, higher education, or in future employment.

 

Year 10

AQA GCSE Themes:

Theme 1: People and lifestyle

Theme 2: Popular culture

Theme 3: Communication and the world around us

Modules studied:

French                                     Spanish

Freetime                                 Freetime

My tribe and I                         Travels

Life at school                          My tribe

Healthy living                          My lifestyle

Holidays                                  School

Our planet                               My neighbourhood

 

Year 11

AQA GCSE Themes:

Theme 1: Identity and culture

Theme 2: Local, national and international global areas of interest

Theme 3: Current and future study and employment

Modules studied:

French                                                 Spanish

My school                                            My school

World of work                                     World of work

Environment and social issues        Environment and social issues

For each half-term there is a Knowledge Expert Sheet which outlines the essential knowledge that all students in Year 10 and 11 need to know.

Students demonstrate their depth of knowledge by completing their Knowledge Expert Books.