MFL | St Michael’s Catholic Academy

Department of Modern Foreign Languages (MFL)

Curriculum Leader:

Mrs. María Rubio (mrubio@stmichaels.bhcet.org.uk)

Departmental staff:

Mrs Marie-Laure Bose

Mrs Sarah Bray

Subject Background:

Bienvenidos/Bienvenue to the MFL curriculum information area. Our KS3 curriculum is in line with the National Curriculum Languages Programmes of Study. This means that we cover a broad range of topics to enable students to have competence in Speaking, listening, reading, and writing. We cover many topics that provide students with the ability to understand and communicate personal and factual information such as ‘Family and Friends’, ‘My life at school’, ‘My Free Time’ and many other topics students will find interesting.

Our students develop their linguistic competence to understand spoken and written language as well as develop their confidence in initiating conversations and express and develop ideas clearly.

At KS4, we follow the AQA VIVA Program of study for Spanish and the AQA STUDIO Program of study for French. With both programmes of study, students develop their linguistic skills, grammar and structures as well as acquiring an extensive vocabulary.

In KS4, students read a broad variety of original and adapted materials from a range of different sources, they read literary texts in the target language (Spanish or French) such as stories, songs, poems and letters to stimulate ideas, develop creative expression and expand understanding of the language and culture.

Literacy is very important to achieve in MFL thus, in studying languages at KS3 and KS4 our students improve their literacy skills as well as gaining a deeper understanding of their native language.

Learning the culture of the countries in which these languages are mainly spoken is paramount to learning and understanding a foreign language.