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Modern Foreign Languages

CURRICULUM KS3
Here at Burnley High School, we are passionate about language learning and how it enriches our students lives both in school and beyond. Spanish at Burnley High follows the Modern Foreign Languages National Curriculum.
Students will understand and respond to a wide range of different topics in MFL. We also take great pride in equipping our students with key skills such as grammar formation and application. As stipulated in the National Curriculum, we encourage and equip our students to manipulate language that they have learned in order to freely express their own thoughts and wishes.
We are also passionate about how languages will benefit students once they leave Burnley High School. Throughout their time studying languages, we highlight the career opportunities that language learning may bring. We also emphasise the key life skills that languages bring such as confidence in communication, intercultural awareness and enhanced problem-solving skills.
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Languages are a popular GCSE option choice at Burnley High School. We currently follow the Edexcel GCSE Spanish specification (2024), where students sit 4 exams with all papers having an equal mark weighting. Over the course of the 2 years, students will cover a wide range of themes such as; health and wellbeing and the world of work. Students will continue to build on their prior knowledge of grammar and vocabulary throughout the GCSE course.

The GCSE specification aims to help students understand and provide information and opinions about these themes relating to their own experiences and those of other people, including people in countries/communities where Spanish is spoken.

The Spanish GCSE curriculum at Burnley High continues to highlight the opportunities language learning can bring to any career field in the future. We also focus on transferable skills such as improved verbal and spatial abilities and enhanced creative thinking capacity.

 

MFL Road Maps:

Please note,  every subject exercise book your child has contains a subject ‘Burnley High Road Map’ that outlines the content covered, timelines and assessment points for the current year.

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