Linguists

Our Intent

When becoming a linguist at Sea Mills Primary we aim to ensure children’s interest and enjoyment in Learning a language; to create an atmosphere where pupils wish to learn, so that they come to enjoy the subject, because they are active participants in it. This starts in our Early Years and Key Stage One classes with songs, games and short spoken activities.

In Key Stage Two we enable each child as a linguist to achieve his/her potential in a variety of situations, using all available resources appropriately, to ensure the highest level of achievement for each child . This starts in Year Three with learning the pronunciation of the Spanish alphabet and continues with a wide variety of practical speaking and listening activities.

Our Approach

The progression of language skills continues throughout Key Stage Two with the focus of transferring spoken language skills into sentence level work. All students are given the opportunity to work independently and as part of a team in varied activities, contributing to the development of core skills such as I.T, speaking and listening, reading and eventually writing.

We encourage positive attitudes to becoming a confident linguist and to speakers of that language, and a sympathetic approach to other cultures.This is shown through our language of the term where we look at another foreign language and make many cross curricular links with the language and the country where it is spoken. To ensure that children have access to a good skills progression we use the Rachel Hawkes Scheme of Work which is found on http://rachelhawkes.com/.

Useful links

https://agreenmouse.com/ – this website helps to make early French and Spanish listening and speaking practice available to any interested child, teacher, parent or student to use at beginner and intermediate level. 

Learn Spanish with lessons that work – Duolingo – Duolingo is an excellent way to start learning a new language: