Key Stage 3

Key Stage 4

Key Stage 5

The Spanish Department is in contact with a school in Chile , Kingston College in Concepción, through video conferences. These are regularly set allowing students to develop real conversational skills and to develop their awareness of young people in Latin America . Moreover, e-mail contracts are made between our students and our Chilean contact school.

Subject content

The GCSE course will consolidate the basic language learned previously, with more complex sentence structure being introduced. Past and future events will also be covered with the introduction of the Preterit, Imperfect Perfect, Future, Conditional tenses and the Subjunctive.

In preparation for the GCSE exam, areas of vocabulary are extended to include: Daily Routine; Health and Fitness; Entertainment and Media; Social Activities, Holidays abroad.

Enrichment days and trips

In the past years, several cultural visits have been organised to Spanish speaking destinations from Spain ( Madrid , Andalusia) to Mexico , in order to encourage a better understanding of the country and the culture.

We have also welcomed visits from the Onatti Theatre Group to the school, who perform plays to language-learners, in the Target Language.