MFL
Subject intent
Language learning at HPA provides students with an immersive love of language that evokes passion, cultural awareness and communication skills to access the wider world. We create learners that are resilient, open-minded language detectives, empowered to communicate in reading, listening, writing, translation and speaking with self-agency.
Our curriculum is cumulative, designed around key building blocks of language which are essential for pupils to be able to communicate independently and spontaneously in the target language. Sequencing is carefully thought-out to introduce students to progressively complex grammatical structures, so they can build on their knowledge and develop their ability to independently manipulate the vocabulary, structures and rules they are learning. For example, they are gradually introduced to a wider variety of verb tenses, interspaced with opportunities to revisit and consolidate those they have already learnt to conjugate.
Link to KS4 specification
Curriculum plan
| Year | Module 1 | Module 2 | Module 3 | Module 4 |
| 7
| Languages and me | People around me | My life at school | Free-time activities |
| Present tense & infinitives; opinions, reasons; adjectives; connectives, intensifiers; to have, to do, to go, to be (ser); comparisons; negatives | ||||
| 8
| Food and drink | My home and town | Where I holiday | A past adventure |
| Year 7 + estar; future tense; perfect/ preterite tense; basic imperfect expressions; prepositions; time expressions | ||||
| 9
| Technology & media | Leisure & healthy living | School | Celebrations |
| Year 7 & 8 + questioning; modal verbs; the imperfect tense | ||||
| 10
| Over the GCSE course students consistently develop their confidence across all skills examined. | |||
| Who am I? | Free-time activities | My routine & celebration | From town to country | |
| 11 | Holidays | School life | The world of work and future studies | Global issues
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