Modern Foreign Languages

Being able to communicate confidently in another language is an essential part of the education of our pupils. It is important that our pupils understand that learning a modern foreign language means you are a member of a multi-cultural community. Moreover, it will help them knowing more about their own culture while discovering and understanding other cultures.

At Ernest Bevin Academy, the Modern Foreign Language (MFL) department aspires to introduce pupils to a broad, knowledge-rich, and resourceful curriculum. We will help them develop skills to enable them to express themselves in habitual and unexpected situations. The MFL curriculum will ensure that we take the opportunity to:

• Develop pupils’ receptive and productive language skills to allow them to communicate and cope in familiar, new, and unpredictable contexts.
• Develop pupils’ abilities to reuse and adapt language and prior knowledge, use complex language structures to express their ideas in a creative manner.
• Develop pupil’s resilience and confidence to allow them to be unafraid to take risks and make errors.
• Support all groups of learners so they can take pleasure in communicating in another language.
• Provide first-hand experience of the target language country and culture and develop an appreciation of a range of authentic resources.
• Enable pupils to have a better understanding of their own culture and encourage them to become ‘global citizens’.
• Develop independence to allow students to learn outside the classroom.

French is the only language we are now offering starters at KS3. Current Blue Ties, Red Ties and Green Ties will be the last cohorts with some of the year groups carrying on with Spanish.