Spanish Curriculum Book

Mount Carmel Values

Our aim is for every child to leave here an Ambassador of Christ.
Our values are deeply rooted in the high expectations that we have of each child in the school. Our Values permeate across the school through children's learning, friendships, behaviour and leadership.
Our values come from the Church.

C - consideration
H - helpfulness
U - unity
R - respect
C - commitment
H - honesty

Our British Values

Our children learn about our British Values through 5 areas. These are discussed at whole school liturgies and during lunch times. We are committed to serving our community, with the strong belief that we are one school for all.

Our Power Values

Our aim is for every child to leave with the power to make a positive change in the world. Through our subjects there are five themes that we believe are integral with teaching children how to become powerful adults.

We ensure that these themes run through our subjects. Children learn about 5 areas of power - Education, Religion, Resources, People and Legacy.

Our aim for your child by the time they leave Mount Carmel

is to understand and respond to spoken and written language from a variety of authentic sources

speak with increasing confidence, fluency and spontaneity, finding ways of communicating what they want to say, including through discussion and asking questions, and continually improving the accuracy of their pronunciation and intonation

can write at varying length, for different purposes and audiences, using the variety of grammatical structures that they have learnt

discover and develop an appreciation of a range of writing in the language studied

The Power of Learning

How Reading Spanish is taught across the school

 Recognise some
familiar words and
phrases in written form.
 Read some familiar
words aloud using
mostly accurate
pronunciation.
 Learn and remember
new words encountered
in reading.

 Read a range of
familiar written phrases
and sentences
recognising their
meaning and reading
them aloud accurately.
 Follow the written
version of a text he/ she
is listening to.
 Begin to work out the
meaning of unfamiliar
words within a familiar
text using contextual
and other clues.

 Read aloud and
understand a short text
containing mostly
familiar language, using
fairly accurate
pronunciation.
 Learn a song or poem
using the written text
for support.
 Use dictionaries to
extend vocabulary on a
given topic and develop
his/her ability to use
different strategies to
work out the meaning
of unfamiliar words.

 Read aloud and
understand a short text
containing unfamiliar
words, using accurate
pronunciation.
 Attempt to read a
range of texts
independently, using
different strategies to
make meaning.
 Use vocabulary learnt
from reading in
different contexts and
use dictionaries to find
a wide range of words.

The Power of Learning

How speaking Spanish is taught across the school

 Ask and answer
simple questions, for
example about personal
information.
 Repeat sentences
heard and make simple
adaptations to them.
 Use mostly accurate
pronunciation and
speak clearly when
addressing an audience.
 Use simple adjectives
such as colours and
sizes to describe
things orally.

 Ask and answer a
range of questions on
different topic areas.
 Using familiar
sentences as models,
make varied
adaptations to create
new sentences
 Read aloud using
accurate pronunciation
and present a short,
learned piece for
performance.

 Take part in
conversations and
express simple opinions
giving reasons.
 Adapt known complex
sentences to reflect a
variation in meaning.
 Begin to use
intonation to
differentiate between
sentence types.
 Create a short piece
for presentation to an
audience.

 Engage in longer
conversations, asking
for clarification when
necessary.
 Create his/her own
sentences using
knowledge of basic
sentence structure.
 Use pronunciation
and intonation
effectively to accurately
express meaning and
engage an audience.

The Power of Learning

How Writing Spanish is taught across the school

 Write some single
words from memory.
 Use simple adjectives
such as colours and
sizes to describe things
in writing.
 Record descriptive
sentences using a word
bank.

 Write words and short
phrases from memory.
 Use a range of
adjectives to describe
things in more detail,
such as describing
someone’s appearance.
 Write descriptive
sentences using a
model but supplying
some words from
memory.

 Write phrases and
some simple sentences
from memory and write
a short text such as an
email with support
from a word/phrase
bank.
 Use a wide range of
adjectives to describe
people and things, and
use different verbs to
describe actions.

 Write a range of
phrases and sentences
from memory and
adapt them to write
his/her own sentences
on a similar topic.
 Select appropriate
adjectives to describe a
range of things, people
and places and
appropriate verbs to
describe actions.
 Begin to use some
adverbs.

The Power of Learning

How Listening in Spanish is taught across the school

 Show that he/ she
recognises words
and phrases heard
by responding
appropriately.
 Follow simple
instructions and
link pictures or
actions to language.
 When listening to
stories, rhymes or
songs, join in with
repeated sections
and identify
particular
phonemes and
rhyming words.

 Show
understanding of a
range of familiar
spoken phrases, for
example through
acting out part of a
familiar story heard.
 Listen to and
accurately repeat
particular
phonemes in songs
and rhymes and
begin to make links
to spellings.
 Notice that the
target language may
contain different
phonemes and that
some similar
sounds may be spelt
differently to
English.

 Gain an overall
understanding of an
extended spoken
text which includes
some familiar
language, for
example
summarising in
English the key
points of what
he/she has heard in
the target language.
 Identify different
ways to spell key
sounds, and select
the correct spelling
of a familiar word.

 Understand longer
and more challenging
texts on a range of topic
areas, recognising some
details and opinions
heard.
 Apply knowledge of
phonemes and spelling
to attempt the reading
of unfamiliar words.