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French

Curriculum Details - 2023/2024 (Current)

Year	Term 1	Term 2	Term 3	Term 4	Term 5	Term 6
7	All about me: give personal information including languages, nationalities, appearance and favourite item. Grammar: avoir, etre, present tense regular endings	My local area: developing knowledge and grammar on personality, family, school and friendships Grammar: adjective agreement, he/she/it forms	The world around me: school, leisure activities, pets and animals. Grammar: plural forms, ir/re common verbs	Food and drink: likes and dislikes in food and drink, restaurant dishes in France, favourite types of cooking. Grammar: using je with a vowel, perfect tense simple forms	My neighbourhood: places in town, activities you can do, ask and give directions, inviting people out. Grammar: partative du/de la/des, pouvoir/devoir/vouloir	My style: clothes, fashion, shopping, and musical tastes. Grammar: negative forms including jamais/ne...que
9	Me, my family and my friends: My family and I, my friends and I, relationships with my friends and family and marriage and partnerships Grammar: revising avoir/être, position of adjectives, reflexive verbs and future tense	Technology: Communicating online, the uses of social media, the advantages and disadvantages of mobile technology Grammar: present tense of regular and irregular verbs, aller/faire	Free-time activities: TV, cinema, music, reading and sports Grammar: present and perfect tense revision, perfect tense with être verbs, subordinating conjunctions, sequencers	Customs and celebrations: food and eating out, different cuisines, celebrations and festivals, how people celebrate differently, describing international festivals Grammar: verb + infinitive, quantities, perfect tense revision, imperfect tense	Home and local area: describing furniture, our home, household chores, talking about our surroundings and different types of accommodation and describing your town and what there is to do. Grammar: position and agreements of adjectives, negative phrases, demonstrative adjectives	Social issues: describing charities and the work you can do, the benefits of charity work, eating habits, comparing old and new health habits Grammar: vouloir/pouvoir/devoir + infinitive, conditional tense (focusing on vouloir and aimer), imperfect tense revision
10	Global issues: environmental problems and their solutions, discussing inequality and poverty in the world Grammar: si clauses, recognising the pluperfect tense, verbs of possibility	Travel and tourism: holiday preferences, visiting different places in French speaking countries Grammar: depuis + present tense, après avoir/être + past participle, venir de + infinitive, using three tenses together	My studies: describing subjects/school facilities, comparing school in UK and France, describing school life in different countries, describing your ideal school Grammar: adverbs, perfect tense revision, conditional tense revision	Film Study: Les Choristes. The film explores the importance of a positive attitude towards children, the need for a positive teacher/student relationship, and the way in which teachers and students can grow and learn from each other. Students analyse key scenes from the film and produce a review.	Careers: talking about future options, university, gap year, apprenticeship, work experience, discussing how to get a job and advantages and disadvantages of getting a job Grammar: revision of the future tense, passive voice, si clauses	Speaking exam preparation: role plays, photo cards, general conversation questions all of which cover the themes taught this year. Translation skills Grammar: using multiple tenses together
11	Theme 1 - Me, my family and my friends, technology in everyday life and free-time Skills: role-play, photo card and general conversation for speaking exam	Theme 1 - Customs and festivals Theme 2 - Home and local area and social issues Skills: 90, 150-word tasks and translation for writing exam	Theme 2 - Holidays and global issues Theme 3 - Life at school, future academic plans and work Skills: answering in French and in English for the reading and listening exams	Prepare for exam series with a range of revision sessions on each skill area. Focus on technique for speaking exam.	Revision and external exams	Transition Work: 1) Read up on the films/books available for study at A-level. 2) Watch films/TV shows on Netflix to improve your understanding of the language, the culture. 3) Listen to online radio/podcasts 4) Start learning AS vocab. 5) Prepare 2 minute presentation about your summer holidays.
12	La famille en voie de changement Discuss trends in marriage, partnerships. Consider the merits and problems of different family structures and problems that can arise between different family generations. Grammar: imperfect tense, perfect tense, recognising the past historic	La cyber-société How has technology transformed everyday lives, what are the dangers of digital technology, who are the users of technology and what possible developments could there be Grammar: infinitive constructions, object pronouns, present tense	Le rôle du bénévolat Explore the voluntary sector in France and discuss the benefits for those who help and those who are helped. Grammar: connectives, conditional, si clauses, future tense	Une culture fière de son patrimoine Explore the notion of heritage and preservation on a regional and national scale, consider how famous heritage sites market themselves, how does heritage impact and guide a society Grammar: adjectives agreements, si clauses, subjunctive	La musique francophone contemporaine Discuss the popularity of contemporary French music, its diversity of genre and style, who listens to French music and what are the threats to contemporary French music and how could it be safeguarded. Grammar: questions, subjunctive, conditional	Le septième art Consider a variety of aspects of French cinema, the major developments in the evolution of French cinema and the continuing popularity of French cinema and film festivals. Grammar: infinitive constructions, si clauses, connectives followed by the subjunctive
13	Consider benefits of an ethnically diverse society, need for tolerance and respect of diversity and how to promote diversity. Examine which groups are socially marginalised, measures to help and consider contrasting attitudes to the marginalised. Grammar: revision of main tenses.	Study of a book, written by a French speaking author. Discuss theme, character, social and cultural context in book. Develop essay writing skills and style. Research IRP and develop presentation/discussion (content and skills) Development of complex language and essay structure.	Examine different attitudes to crime, prisons - merits and problems, alternative forms of punishment. Discuss the right to vote, youth political engagement and the future of politics Grammar: recognising past historic, si clauses, infinitive constructions, passive voice, subjunctive	Understand the importance of trade unions, methods of protesting, attitudes to strikes, and other tensions Political issues concerning immigration in francophone countries, immigrants and political parties viewpoints on immigration Grammar: object pronouns, relative pronouns, tense revision	Students will develop their exam techniques, vocab knowledge and speaking/writing skills as well as translation, listening and reading skills. Refine any exam skills/application of grammar as indicated by mock performances and past paper performances	External exams

German

Curriculum Details - 2023/2024 (Current)

Year	Term 1	Term 2	Term 3	Term 4	Term 5	Term 6
7
8	Talking about holiday activities, a past holiday, how you travelled on holiday, the weather and describing a past holiday including opinions Grammar: using the infinitive, the perfect tense with "haben" and "sein", the imperfect tense, different personal pronouns and verb forms	Talking about household chores, your bedroom, your future house, directions, where you live/used to live Grammar: separable verbs in pres. tense, "es gibt" plus accusative, using present, perfect and imperfect tenses together, dative prepositions, future tense with "werden"	Talking about daily routine, comparing chores in different families, daily life in the German-speaking world, making plans/excuses, healthy living Grammar: reflexive and separable verbs (pres tense), sequencers, wollen plus infinitive, modal verbs soll/muss, subordinate clauses with weil/wenn	Talking about what you wear, your style, shopping habits, shopping for clothes, special occasions Grammar: using irregular verbs (vowel change in pres tense), accusative adjective endings, possessive adj in accusative case, revising future tense (werden) as well as perfect tense with haben/sein	Talking about the virtual/real word: TV and film, different types of music, the internet/social media, today's/past technology, volunteering Grammar: using subordinate clauses with weil/wenn/dass, time-manner-place word order, recognising/using the imperfect tense, revising use of tenses	Talking about capital Berlin, planning a trip and learning about life in Berlin Grammar: Revising the future tense with "werden", using a range of tenses
9	Me, my family and my friends: My family and I, my friends and I, relationships with my friends and family and marriage and partnerships Grammar: revising haben/sein in present tense, using (ir)regular verbs, adjectives and future tense	Technology: Communicating online, the uses of social media, the advantages and disadvantages of mobile technology and phones Grammar: use of present tense to refer to future, (in)direct object pronouns, perfect and imperfect tense	Free-time activities: TV, cinema, music, food and sports Grammar: separable verbs in present, perfect and future tense, using "would like", revising present and perfect tense, revising gern/lieber/am liebsten to express preferences	Customs and celebrations: celebrations and festivals, how people celebrate differently, describing international festivals Grammar: quantities, using adjectives as nouns, perfect tense revision	Home and local area: describing furniture, rooms, our home, talking about our surroundings, town and what there is to do. Grammar: plurals of nouns, prepositions and cases, using inversion to form questions, modal verb "koennen"	Social issues: describing voluntary work (UK and abroad) and its benefits; lifestyle: eating habits, comparing old and new health habits Grammar: using quantifiers and intensifiers, in plus dative/accusative case, revising modal verbs, using als when talking about the past
10	Global issues: local/global environmental problems and their solutions, discussing inequality and poverty in the world Grammar: imperative, using the pluperfect tense, recognising/using reflexive pronouns, using reflexive verb with direct objects	Travel and tourism: accommodation, holiday preferences, visiting different places in German speaking countries Grammar: recognising imperfect tense of irregular verbs, using coordinating and subordinating conjunctions, dual case prepositions, relative pronouns	My studies: describing subjects/school facilities; understanding the different school system (comparison UK and Germany) Grammar: prepositions seit/vor, infinitive constructions	My studies: describing school day, different aspects of school life, your ideal school Grammar: using common subjunctive forms, revising reflexive verbs Speaking exam preparation: role plays, photo cards, general conversation - in preparation for mock speaking exam in Y11.	Careers: talking about future options, university, gap year, apprenticeship, work experience, discussing how to get a job and advantages and disadvantages of getting a job Grammar: using "which" as well as verbs followed by "zu". Writing exam preparation - review 90 and 150 word tasks	Careers: Talking about choosing a career and different career choices (including ideal job) Grammar: using a range of subordinating conjunctions, using the genitive case. Translation skills and using multiple tenses together
11	Theme 1 - Me, my family and my friends, technology in everyday life and free-time Skills: role-play, photo card and general conversation for speaking exam	Theme 1 - Customs and festivals Theme 2 - Home and local area and social issues Skills: 90, 150-word tasks and translation for writing exam	Theme 2 - Holidays and global issues Theme 3 - Life at school, future academic plans and work Skills: answering in German and in English for the reading and listening exams	Prepare for exam series with a range of revision sessions on each skill area. Focus on technique for speaking exam.	Speaking exam - exam prep plus actual exam Reading and listening exam - exam prep and actual exam Writing exam - exam prep	Transition Work: 1) Read up on the films/books available for study at A-level. 2) Watch films on fluentu/netflix to improve your understanding of the language, the culture. 3) Listen to online radio. 4) Start learning AS vocab. 5) Prepare 2 minute presentation about your holidays.
12	Changing nature of relationships and families ? new trends, same-sex couples, single-parent/blended families, change in roles. Present tense Modal verbs Perfect tense Understanding word formation	Fashion and importance of image Different genre and styles of music Popularity of contemporary music – who and how? Different types of TV programmes Using pronouns, verbs that are followed by prepositions and the imperative	Study of a film, directed by a German speaking director Discuss theme, character, social and cultural context in film. Develop essay writing skills and style. Development of complex language and essay structure.	Roots and origins of festivals and traditions in German speaking countries. Develop understanding of economic and social importance of these festivals/traditions. Passive voice Imperfect tense Separable and inseparable verbs. Reflexive verbs	Developments in art and architecture from the past to the present and towards the future. Using the pluperfect tense	Influence of political events on Berlin Role of culture in Berlin today Aspects and challenges of life in a multicultural city. Adjectival endings Infinitive constructions with/without « zu » Imperfect subjunctive in conditional clauses
13	Reasons for migration. Evaluation of (dis)advantages for migrants and country of destination. Examination of issues affecting migration policies. Weak masculine nouns Complex adjectival phrases Adjectival endings	Impact of racism on victims and available support Discuss origins of racism. Discuss how to resist/fight racism Relative and interrogative pronouns Revision of present and future tenses Subjunctive in indirect speech (past)	Study of a book, written by a German speaking author. Discuss theme, character, social and cultural context in film. Develop essay writing skills and style. Research IRP and develop presentation/discussion (content and skills) Development of complex language and essay structure.	Discuss in which way young people engage in politics Priorities for youth politics Priorities of young people and the role of pressure groups Revision passive Using modal particles Revision word order, including changing emphasis	Students will develop their exam techniques, vocab knowledge and speaking/writing skills as well as translation, listening and reading skills. Refine any exam skills/application of grammar as indicated by mock performances and past paper performances	External Exams.

Spanish

Curriculum Details - 2023/2024 (Current)

Year	Term 1	Term 2	Term 3	Term 4	Term 5	Term 6
7
8	Meeting people, saying how you feel, saying if you get on with your friends and family, making excuses, daily routine, what you do and have to do to help at home Grammar: Questions, SER and ESTAR to describe characteristics and mood, CAER BIEN, LLEVARSE, personal A, SOLER	Clothes and your opinion, discussing different styles and eras of fashion, buying clothes, saying what size you are and how well clothes fit Grammar: Opinions, imperfect tense, demonstrative adjectives, comparatives and superlatives, single and plural verb forms	What you like doing in your free time, going shopping, what you did on holiday, describing past events, what you did when you were younger Grammar: GUSTAR, preterite tense (regular and some irregular verbs), preterite (some irregular) with imperfect verbs	What you should do to maintain a healthy lifestyle, identifying parts of the body and discussing keeping fit, illnesses and injuries, sports and how to play them Grammar:Question words and frequency words, reflexives in the past and present tenses, DOLER, impersonal ‘se’, imperfect and preterite	Talking about what you will do in the future, what jobs you will, would like to or hope to do in the future, pocket money, choosing options/subjects, comparing Spanish school system Grammar: future tense including irregulars, conditional, using a variety of tenses	Describing environmental problems and their causes, helping the environment, your environment at home, Latin American project Grammar: opinions, superlatives, we can / must / have to, imperative, negatives, impersonal verbs, data
9	Me, my family and my friends: My family and I, my friends and I, relationships with my friends and family and marriage and partnerships Grammar: TENER and SER, adjectives, reflexive verbs, possessive adjectives, subject pronouns, immediate future tense, direct and indirect object pronouns	Technology: Communicating online, the uses of social media, the advantages and disadvantages of mobile technology Grammar: comparatives, question words, perfect tense, HABIA / ERA, POR / PAR, present continuous tense	Free-time activities: TV, cinema, music, reading and sports Grammar: GUSTAR/ENCANTAR, common irregular verbs, pronouns after con, adverbs, JUGAR / HACER, future tense	Customs and celebrations: food and eating out, different cuisines, celebrations and festivals, how people celebrate differently, describing international festivals Grammar: preterite tense including reflexives, imperfect HAY / HABIA, revise numbers	Home and local area: describing furniture, our home, household chores, talking about our surroundings and different types of accommodation and describing your town and what there is to do. Grammar: HAY, SER, ESTAR, quantity, prepositions, SE PUEDE + impersonal, demonstrative adjectives	Social issues: describing charities and the work you can do, the benefits of charity work, eating habits, comparing old and new health habits Grammar: ME GUSTARIA, TENER/MEJOR QUE, negatives
10	Travel and tourism: holiday preferences, visiting different places in Spanish-speaking countries Grammar: use of preterite and imperfect tenses, expressions of sequence, estar + past participle, passive and passive forms with se, desde hacía + imperfect	Global issues: environmental problems and their solutions, discussing inequality and poverty in the world Grammar: using ‘if’ sentences with present, reflexive constructions, negative expressions	Grammar and exam skills review and development: introduction of present subjunctive in a variety of contexts with form and structure highlighted	My studies: describing subjects/school facilities, comparing schools in UK and Spain, describing school life in different countries, describing your ideal school Grammar: imperative, perfect tense, desde hace + the present, SE DEBE, HAY QUE, verbs that take infinitive, DEBERIA SER / DEBERIA HABER	Careers: talking about future options, university, gap year, apprenticeship, work experience, discussing how to get a job and advantages and disadvantages of getting a job Grammar: LO QUE / LO + adjective, present subjunctive after expressions of time/in hypothetical situations, reflexive verbs	Film Study: Voces Inocentes. Understand geography, history and impact of child soldiers on the country's development and migration.
11	Theme 1 - Me, my family and my friends, technology in everyday life and free-time Skills: role-play, photo card and general conversation for speaking exam	Theme 1 - Customs and festivals Theme 2 - Home and local area and social issues Skills: 90, 150-word tasks and translation for writing exam	Theme 2 - Holidays and global issues Theme 3 - Life at school, future academic plans and work Skills: answering in Spanish and in English for the reading and listening exams	Prepare for exam series with a range of revision sessions on each skill area. Focus on technique for speaking exam.	Speaking exam Reading and listening: revision and exam preparation Writing exam: revision and exam preparation	Transition Work: 1) Read up on the films/books available for study at A-level. 2) Watch films in Spanish to develop cultural knowledge. 3) Listen to online radio. 4) Do some background reading on the Spanish Civil War and Franco's Dictatorship 5) Prepare 2 minute presentation about your holidays.
12	Modern & traditional values Changes in the family, attitudes toward marriage and divorce, the influence of the Catholic church Grammar: imperfect, imperfect continuous and preterite	Cyberspace The influence of the internet, smart phones in our society, social networks: benefits and dangers Grammar: present and present continuous, comparatives and superlatives, SER, ESTAR, future and conditional	Equality Women in work, sexism and feminism, gay and transgender rights Grammar: perfect and pluperfect tense, future perfect and conditional perfect	The influence of idols Singers and music, stars of TV and cinema, role-models Grammar: indirect object pronouns, passive voice	Regional identity in Spain Traditions and customs, gastronomy, languages Grammar: present subjunctive, perfect tense in subjunctive	Cultural heritage Historic sites and pre-hispanic civilisations, art and architecture, musical heritage and diversity Grammar: subjunctive, imperatives, demonstrative pronouns
13	Monarchies and dictatorships The Franco dictatorship, the evolution of the monarchy, Latin American dictators	Today's youth, tomorrow's citizens Young people and politics, youth unemployment, the ideal society	Popular movements Protests and strikes, trade unionism, social protest	Film study: Volver Novel: La Casa de Bernarda Alba	Independent Research Project on topic of student's choice	Exams