❝If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart.❞​

‒Nelson Mandela​

In a multi-cultural and linguistically diverse school such as Bowling Park, many of our children already possess the skills for learning language. MFL is an inclusive subject that supports speaking and listening skills and helps children to grow their oracy skills in a nurturing and safe environment.​

At Bowling Park Primary, we aim to spark a love of languages in children that lasts a lifetime and prepares them for secondary school and future employment. 

The intent of our Spanish curriculum is to foster a love for languages and enhance cultural awareness among our pupils. We aim to equip students with foundational language skills that promote confidence in speaking, listening, reading, and writing in Spanish. 

Our curriculum is designed to:

Bowling Park Primary School uses the Language Angels scheme of work and resources to ensure we offer a relevant, broad, vibrant and ambitious foreign languages curriculum that will inspire and excite our pupils using a wide variety of topics and themes. All pupils will be expected to achieve their full potential by encouraging high expectations and excellent standards in their foreign language learning - the ultimate aim being that pupils will feel willing and able to continue studying languages beyond key stage 2.​

The four key language learning skills; listening, speaking, reading and writing will be taught and all necessary grammar will be covered in an age-appropriate way across the primary phase. This will enable pupils to use and apply their learning in a variety of contexts, laying down solid foundations for future language learning and also helping the children improve overall attainment in other subject areas. In addition, the children will be taught how to look up and research language they are unsure of and they will have a bank of reference materials to help them with their spoken and written tasks going forward. This bank of reference materials will develop into a reference library to help pupils recall and build on previous knowledge throughout their primary school language learning journey.​

The intent is that all pupils will develop a genuine interest and positive curiosity about foreign languages, finding them enjoyable and stimulating. Learning a second language will also offer pupils the opportunity to explore relationships between language and identity, develop a deeper understanding of other cultures and the world around them with a better awareness of self, others and cultural differences. The intention is that they will be working towards becoming life-long language learners.​