THE HAYESFIELD CURRICULUM
Languages Faculty
‘Communication unites us all’
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’.
Faculty Subjects
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 exchange and/or visits to France and Spain, participate in a range of competitions such as the Foreign Language Spelling Bee in Y7 or the Anthea Bell Prize for Young translators to name but a few. We also regularly run Key Stage 3 trips to France/Spain in Enrichment Week.
French
KS4 French Curriculum Resources
My Town:
Describing the town where you live
Giving opinions on your local area
Talking about what you can do where you live
Using models
Talking about what you can do where you live and
persuade someone to visit Writing a project in French about where you live and
how it could be improved
Travel and Tourism:
Describe what you do when on holiday
Give opinions on different types of holidays
Using three different time frames to describe
holidays in the past, present and future
Role-play speaking skills
School:
Give opinions on school subjects and teachers and uniform, building on the work done in Year 7
Theme: Work and Future Plans
Talk about what your ideal job would be
Discuss your plans and ambitions for the future
Explaining the importance of learning a foreign
language
Spice up the language using complex structures
Review and Revision For Mocks
Listening
Reading Writing/translating
Speaking exam practice
Prepare for the GCSE Speaking Exam
Role play – give simple sentences and ask a
question
Photo card – use three tenses and opinion
2 conversations – use three tenses and detailed
information including a narrative
Spanish
KS4 Spanish Curriculum Resources
Identity and Culture
Talk/write about free-time activities, what you like and persuade someone else to take part in your activity
Talk about what you usually do using ‘suelo’
TV programmes and films, building on Y9 work Watch a film in Spanish and analyse the characters and the plot
Use the imperfect tense to talk about what you used to do
Listening and reading in all the different tenses and going beyond the ‘I’
Talk about what is trending and discuss different
types of entertainment
Introduce the perfect tense
Talk/write about who inspires you
Local, national, international and global areas of
interest
Look at sports – using the imperfect tense to talk
about what you used to do
Listening and reading in all the different tenses and going beyond the ‘I’
Talk about what is trending and discuss different
types of entertainment
Introduce the perfect tense
Talk/write about who inspires you
Discuss mealtimes and food including healthy
eating
Find out about typical foods in Spanish speaking
countries
Use the passive voice to advise etc
Look at exam skills for the listening and reading
papers, focussing on – positive/negative/increase/decrease etc
Environment
Talking about how to protect the environment
Discuss issues and problems affecting the
environment
Exploring solutions for environmental problems
Discuss how you would make changes in school/at home
Social issues
Talking about how to protect the environment
Discuss issues and problems affecting people in
your area and in Spain
Discussing healthy living
Discuss how you would make changes in your future
Current and future study and employment
Talk about different jobs and what you would like to do in the future
Talk about how you earn money
Use ‘soler’ in the imperfect
Talk about work experience and a gap year
Discuss/write about the importance of learning
languages
Introduce the subjunctive in regard to future plans
KS4 Revision Resources
AQA CGP Spanish Revision Guide
Linguascope (Username: Hayesfield Password: let5learn)
Seneca – ask class teacher for code
Quizlet
Latin
KS4 French Curriculum Resources
Latin Language
Introduction to the present tense
Nominative and accusative, singular and plural, nouns
Introduction to the perfect and imperfect tenses and superlatives
Dative case of nouns
Adjective agreements
Comparatives
Questions
Verbs taking the infinitive
Relative clauses
Changes in sentence structure and word order
Introduction to the pluperfect tense
Recognising perfect, imperfect, pluperfect and present
tenses together
Genitive case of nouns Who/which with relative clauses
Hic and ille, and their different forms
Imperatives and present participles
Perfect passive participles
Perfect active participles Word and sentence patterns
Recognising different participles (present, perfect
passive and perfect active)
Plural of neuter nouns
cum followed by imperfect and pluperfect
subjunctive
Indirect questions
Purpose clauses
Gerundives
Indirect commands
Result clauses
Ablative case of nouns
Revision of tenses – present, perfect, imperfect
and pluperfect verb endings
Past paper practice
Latin Literature
Introduction to different types of Latin literature and writers
Introduction the theme: Superstition and Magic:
background, images and sources
Martial – Curses for bad dreams
Pliny – An alarming dream comes true
Horace – Omens good and bad
Ovid – Dipsas the sorceress
Virgil – Didio prepares to curse Aeneas
Suetonius – The portents before the death of
Julius Caesar
Petronius – A spooky story
Cross-referencing texts and images
Practising 16-mark essay writing
Roman Civilization
Daily life/routines
Houses, shops and businesses
The forum
Slaves and freedmen
Patronage and freedmen
Flats (insulae)
The baths
KS4 Revision Resources:
World Languages Faculty
| Head of Faculty | Mrs Laurence Gillham (LGI) |
|---|---|
| Teacher of French and Spanish (Head of French) | Mr James Allen (JAL) |
| Teacher of French and Spanish | Ms Catherine Boyt (CBO) |
| Teacher of French and Spanish | Miss Esther Waistell (EWA) |
| Teacher of French, Spanish and Latin (Part Time) | Mrs Elizabeth Cordero (LC) |
|---|---|
| Teacher of French and Spanish (Part Time) | Miss Raluca Pupaza (RPU) |
| Teacher of French and Spanish | Mr David Blake (DBL) |
Curriculum Intent and Implementation Booklets
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)
- Visits to Bath University (translating and interpreting suite)