Year 7

Term 1: Introductions and personal information, hobbies and interests.

Term 2: School and routines

Term 3: Free time – sports and activities you enjoy

Year 8

Term 1: Talking about family life

Term 2: Your town and neighbourhood

Term 3: Holidays and holiday activities

Key Stage 4 begins in Year 9 and the AQA GCSE specification is followed. Year 9 students will further develop their Key Stage 3 skills and deepen their language knowledge by learning how to use more complex vocabulary and grammatical structures, including a wider variety of verb tenses. All students continue to study the language they have studied throughout KS3, but are also given the opportunity to start learning a second language.

Year 9 Course Outline

Topics studied in Year 9 include:

Term 1: What you do online

Term 2: Relationships with family and friends.

Term 3: Life at school

Year 10 Course Outline

Term 1: Healthy living

Term 2: Holidays

Term 3: Helping to protect the environment

Year 10 Outcomes: By the end of Year 10, students will confidently use higher level listening, reading, speaking,
writing and translation skills in the modern foreign language. They will be able to recognise and use a bigger range of present, past and future tenses, and develop a spoken or written piece of work on an increasing range of topics. They will understand how to prepare longer, more complex answers to questions on a wide range of topics.

Year 11 Course Outline

Term 1: Talking about your home and local environment

Term 2: Plans for the future

Term 3: Exam preparation

Year 11 Outcomes: By the end of Year 11, students will be able to confidently apply their listening, reading, speaking, writing and translation skills in the modern foreign language in response to a range of tasks. Their vocabulary knowledge will be wide and their grammar knowledge will be secure. They will be able to demonstrate their contextual and cultural knowledge of the country or countries where the modern foreign language is spoken. They will be able to appropriately adapt their language use to suit the situation where its need is demanded.

Topics studied in Year 12 include:

Term 1:     Aspects of German/Spanish/French-speaking society: Family and partnership/ The digital world

Term 2:    Artistic culture in the German/Spanish/French -speaking world: Fashion, music and television/ Festivals and traditions

Term 3:    Artistic culture in the German/Spanish/French-speaking world: Art and architecture

Year 13 Course Outline

Topics studied in Year 13 include:

Term 1:     Multiculturalism in German/Spanish/French-speaking society: Migration and immigration/ Racism

Term 2:    Aspects of political life in the German/Spanish/French -speaking world: Europe / Politics and youth

Term 3:    Aspects of political life in the German/Spanish/French -speaking world

Students also study 1 film and 1 literary text, chosen from a list prepared by the exam board, with input from the students. In addition, students complete an Independent Research Project over the course of the 2 years, based on one particular point of interest to the student of the culture, history or language of the Germanic, Hispanic or Francophone world.