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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. We also use an online learning platform Linguascope to support children becoming confident linguists which includes playing a variety of interactive and fun games.

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

Visit www.linguascope.com with your child to play a variety of interactive games. Username: seamills Password : time4langs

http://www.newburyparkschool.net/langofmonth/index.html – This website has a fantastic interactive computer program that contains interactive video clips showing the children of the school teaching their home languages. There are also some fantastic resources on here to download and use to support language development at home.

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. 

Yearly Overviews

To see the Year 3 yearly overview

www.rachelhawkes.com/Resources/Yr3/Yr3.php

To see the Year 4 yearly overview

www.rachelhawkes.com/Resources/Yr4/Yr4.php

To see the Year 5 yearly overview 

www.rachelhawkes.com/Resources/Yr5/Yr5.php

To see the Year 6 yearly overview 

www.rachelhawkes.com/Resources/Yr6/Yr6.php

YouTube

We have added a Linguist playlist to our school YouTube account. We’re only starting our journey of videos for you to enjoy at home but will soon be adding more so click the link to learn at home!

Year 6 Linguists

Recently, the year 6 linguists have been practising Spanish verbs to give instructions. They played a game of Simon says. Can you guess what the instruction was?

September 2022

MFL Day: We had a fantastic day celebrating Modern Foreign Languages. Children enjoyed lots of different activities and Reception had a special treat when Nolan’s Nanny Sabina made special cookies from a Romanian recipe that is 100 years old!

Year 6 MFL Day

July 2022 – Spanish cafe

To celebrate the end of our school year we had a very special morning with a Spanish cafe! We were very thankful that some of our Spanish families came and shared a variety of tasty treats and we all got to be linguists for the morning.

We practised our greetings, ordering foods and saying please and thank you!

Year 3 Language Day – ‘Hello’ bunting

As part of European Language Day, we celebrated by learning about how to say hello in different languages! We then decorated the bunting with their flags and their corresponding languages. We had to be look very closely to use the correct colours!

Modern foreign languages day – Year 1

To celebrate Modern foreign languages day , Year One practised our colours song ( you can watch it in Linguist playlist on our school YouTube channel!). Afterwards, we enjoyed our Outdoor Classroom time, singing our Spanish song and eating some Spanish sweet treats. Children enjoyed practising saying red, blue, yellow and green in Spanish. I wonder if you can sing along with them if you start singing red is rojo……

Linguist Day – Year 6

Year 6 had a great afternoon as part of our Linguist day. We made some guacamole and salsa and ate them alongside some tortilla chips!! It was very yummy and now the classroom smells like garlic!