Languages Faculty

Our Vision

‘Communication unites us all’
Hayesfield is a comprehensive girls’ school, taking girls from the City of Bath and its surrounding rural towns and villages. As our students arrive with a wide range of experiences and languages at primary education, and in their homes, we aim to inspire a lifelong love of languages in all our students and equip them with the confidence they will need to thrive in an increasingly connected world and become ‘global citizens’.

Our Languages Curriculum is designed to ensure that all students make quick progress to reach their personal best. At the start of Y7 all girls sit a ‘Swedish test’, so we can quickly see the linguistic competency of each girl.

As a faculty we offer the opportunity to broaden horizons and enhance opportunities by providing a nurturing, supportive and caring environment where students feel confident to get involved and are willing to put themselves beyond their comfort zone, safe in the knowledge that failure is simply another word for “opportunity to learn”.

We also want our students to have a much wider understanding of the world around them, which is much more diverse than our school in Bath, which is ultimately predominantly white British. In the curriculum we offer French and Spanish to our girls as these are the countries they are most likely to visit with their families or have experienced in their primary schools. In addition, at Key Stage 4 they have the opportunity to learn Latin as a GCSE option.

We want our students to be fully immersed in the language and culture of the languages they are learning. Hence, opportunities to learn these languages extend well beyond the four walls of the conventional classroom as students are invited to take part in foreign language exchanges or visits to France and Spain via the Turing Scheme. We also run Key Stage 3 trips to France/Spain in Enrichment Week.

Faculty Subjects

The World Languages Faculty comprises the following subjects. You can access each subject’s designated webpage by clicking on its image below:

French (Y7-11)	Spanish (Y8-11)	Latin (Y10-11)

Faculty Staff

• Mr James Allen (JAL) – Subject Lead Key Stage 4 and 5 Spanish
• Mrs Elizabeth Cordero (LC)- KS3 Languages Co-ordinator
• Miss Rosanna Bradford (RBR) – French and Spanish
• Mrs Raluca Pupaza (RPU) – French and Spanish
• Miss Emilie Saban (ESA) – French andSpanish

Enriching Learning

It is important that students get a sense of the world in which they live. There are trips to different parts of Europe and also exchanges with France and Spain. We also encourage our Sixth Form students to attend local conferences and spend a week in a language school. We have French and Spanish Language Assistants work with our students to improve their confidence and speaking skills.

Staff are involved in the Extra Curricular LEAP programme and the Masterclass programme.

Our activities include:

• International Ambassadors (for our native speakers to be involved in helping others in our
  community)
• Extension languages (enabling students to sit A Levels and GCSEs in their native language)
• Mandarin Chinese
• Visits to Bath University (translating and interpreting suite)

 
Please see each subject’s page for more details.