Spanish KS3
Year 7 Curriculum
Autumn Term:
Introductions and family
– Personal information (name, age, birthday)
– Physical description
– Family
– Relationships with family
Spring Term:
Home and Local area
– Location
– Describing your house
– Places in town
– Saying what you can do in your area
– Weekend plans
Summer Term:
School life
– Facilities
– Subjects
– Uniform
– Plans for the future
Year 8 Curriculum
Autumn Term:
Free Time
– Free time activities and opinions
– Technology
– Television
– Cinema
– Music
– Going out
Spring Term:
Food and Healthy Living
– Food
– A special meal
– Sports
– Illness and injury
– In the chemist
– Health improvements
Summer Term:
My holidays
– Where do you go
– Accommodation
– Activities
– Last summer
– Disaster holiday
– Future holidays
– Hotel bookings
Year 9 Curriculum
Autumn Term:
Self, family and friends
– Physical descriptions
– Personality
– Family
– Family relationships
– Friends
– Weekend plans
– Future plans – marriage/partnership
Spring Term:
Free time and technology
– Cinema
– Music
– TV
– Sport
– Food and eating out
Summer Term:
School and Future plans
– School facilities
– Subjects
– Teachers
– A day in school/A school trip
– Future plans – jobs/university
Assessment & Monitoring
Each half term, your daughter will begin a new topic which will encompass a range of listening, reading, writing and spoken language skills.
For listening, your daughter will regularly listen and work with native spoken recordings. She will be immersed in the target language by her teacher during lesson time which will significantly develop her confidence and improve her ability to distinguish new sounds and pick out key information.
For reading, your daughter will read and respond to a range of Spanish texts including stories and poems. She will be able to use a bilingual dictionary and be given opportunities to develop independent research skills using ICT.
Your daughter will develop her writing skills in the target language and will be assessed regularly through extended pieces of writing where she will be expected to include key grammatical concepts, give opinions and correctly include appropriate and new vocabulary covered in class.
Your daughter will regularly be given opportunities to express and justify her opinions in Spanish. In her spoken work, she will be expected to include key grammar points and include a range of language and vocabulary.
Regular assessment of all four skills will take place within lessons and formal assessments will be carried out at the end of each term. Students will also be expected to learn new vocabulary and spelling and will be tested on a weekly basis.
Support
Resources
In preparation for Key Stage 3 Spanish assessments, your daughter can access the following websites for extra support:
- Linguascope (details in her planner)
- Sam Learning
- www.bbc.co.uk/schools/bitesize.
- Textivate (details in her planner)
Your daughter can also access vocabulary lists and grammar support for the different topics via the school’s VLE.