At Thomas's Academy, our pupils learn Spanish with a specialist teacher from Reception to Year 6.  Through interactive, engaging and relevant topics, pupils learn to understand and communicate, orally and in writing, in Spanish.  Using practical activities, they develop and extend their ability to express their thoughts and ideas in another language, thereby fostering their curiosity and deepening their understanding of other peoples and cultures.   

Our curriculum enables the children to develop the four key language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing.  Our progression map is below. Most activities use a combination of one or more skill, as this is how language is used in the real world. Grammar is mostly taught implicitly through recognising patterns, rather than as separate lesson topics. Our pedagogy focuses predominantly on target language use by teacher and pupils, immersing pupils in Spanish by adding and developing increasing layers of complexity each time they revisit a similar theme.

Spanish Curriculum Progression Map