Term 1

Term 2

Term 3

Term 4

Term 5

Term 6

Year 7

Unit 1: Spanish around the world

Unit 2: My Bubble around me

 
Unit 3: The bubble continued with coco film study

Unit 4: Colours of the world

Unit 5: My hobbies

 
Unit 6: My free time

Key Learning

Students need to know and remember from this unit of work

·         Introducing yourself in Spanish

·         Thinking about the Spanish speaking world

·         Basic colours and numbers

·         Phonics

·         Counting to 100

·         Introducing family members

·         Pets

·         Using adjectives to describe physical descriptions/personality traits.

·         Talking about family, pets and physical description

·         To learn about the culture of Day of the Dead in Mexico

·         Film study Coco

·         Photocard skills

-          Art project

-          Prepositions of place

-          Clothes

-          Describing physical appearance

-          Describing a photo

·         Talking about hobbies and sports

·         Introducing opinion phrases to talk about things we like/don’t like to do.

·         Sports and free time hobbies and activities.

·         Weather phrases

·          

·         Talking about free time and music

·         Revision of Year 7 Spanish

·         Exploring traditions in Spain such as Bullfighting.

Across the year students will be assessed against the 4 main skill strands of listening, writing, reading and speaking.  

Check for Understanding

How we will check for understanding in this unit of work

Assessment

Checkpoint:

Can students introduce themselves

Assessment

Checkpoint:

Can students talk about their families?

Assessment

Checkpoint:

Can students demonstrate awareness of culture in Mexico and describe photos.

Assessment

Checkpoint:

Can students design and describe their own geometric art work?

Assessment

Checkpoint:

Can students talk about their lifestyles, likes and dislikes?

Assessment

Checkpoint:

Can students discuss their favourite sporting activities?

Year 8

Unit 1: My house

Unit 2: In my city

Unit 3: In my city continued

 
Unit 4: School

Unit 5: Film unit

 
Unit 6: Healthy living

Key Learning

Students need to know and remember from this unit of work

·         Discussing different types of homes.

·         Being able to describe the area that you live in.

·         Describing the rooms in your home.

·         Using prepositions to talk about where something is located.

·         Chores in the home.

·         Talking about where you live

·         Talking about what there is in your city

·         Using opinion phrases to describe what your city is like.

·         Key words = hay- there is,

·         Talking about where you live

·         Talking about what there is in your city

·         Using opinion phrases to describe what your city is like.

·         Key words = hay- there is,

·         Talking about school subjects

·         Using opinion phrases to talk about subjects that you like/dislike

·         Talking about the school environment. What is and isn’t in your school.

·         School timetables

Afterschool clubs

·         School based film unit

·         Spanish film Zipe and Zape

·         The body

·         Illness

·         Food and drink

·         tapas

Across the year students will be assessed against the 4 main skill strands of listening, writing, reading and speaking.  

Check for Understanding

How we will check for understanding in this unit of work

Assessment

Checkpoint:

Can students describe where they live?

Assessment

Checkpoint:

Can students describe their town/city?

Assessment

Checkpoint:

Can students discuss the pros and cons of their region?

Assessment

Checkpoint:

Can students talk about life at Chilton?

Assessment

Checkpoint:

Can students compare school life at Chilton to Summer Hope School?

Assessment

Checkpoint:

Can students describe what they do to maintain a healthy lifestyle?

Year 9

Unit 1: Holidays

Unit 2: Technology in Everyday Life

 
Unit 3: Valentín Film study

Unit 4: The world around me

Unit 5: Addicted to Fashion

 
Unit 6: The Spanish-Speaking World

Key Learning

Students need to know and remember from this unit of work

·         Holiday transport and accommodation

·         Key learning- voy/infinitive ir

·         Future tense

Future holiday plans

Impacts of social media and technology

Tv programmes and film genres

Describing music tastes.

·          

Revising physical descriptions to describe film characters.

Beginning to learn about family relationships.

Introduction to Argentinian culture.

Revising the future tense to talk about aspirational career goals.

Revisiting family and friendship relationships

Describing morning/day routines

Thinking about wider global issues

Key learning- se debe

Me llevo bien con

Learning how to describe clothes

Using adjectives to describe style or clothing.

Exploring different types of shops

Introducing the conditional to discuss dream lottery plans

Learning how to describe problems when out shopping

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Learning about Hispanic culture including Spain, North, Central and South America exploring several Spanish speaking countries across the world.

Madrid vs Barcelona el clásico.

Journey across south america.

Journey across South america project.

·          

Across the year students will be assessed against the 4 main skill strands of listening, writing, reading and speaking.  

Check for Understanding

How we will check for understanding in this unit of work

Assessment

Checkpoint:

Can students talk about their holiday plans?

Assessment

Checkpoint:

Can students discuss the importance of technology in their lives?

Assessment

Checkpoint:

Can students discuss their future career aspirations?

Assessment

Checkpoint:

Can students describe the relationships in their lives?

Assessment

Checkpoint:

Can students describe their own style?

Assessment

Checkpoint:

End of year assessment in Reading and Writing

Year 10

Unit: 1

Identity and Relationships with others

Unit: 2

Healthy living and lifestyle

 Unit: 3

Education and work

Unit: 4

Free time activities

Unit: 5

Customs, festivals and celebrations

 Unit: 6

Celebrity culture

Key Learning

Students need to know and remember from this unit of work

-Recapping KS3 Spanish

- introducing yourself: physical description, where you live, likes and dislikes

- personality: describing yourself and others

- future self: talking about what you want to achieve in the future

- presenting your family

- present tense focus and recap

-ser and tener

-ser and estar

-irregular verbs: ir, hacer, salir

-reflexive verbs

- food: what we like and dislike eating.

- health problems: talking about your body and trips to the doctors

- what makes a healthy lifestyle – plans for future health

- recent activities: sport, eating habits, activities with friends

- the near future tense

- tener que and deber

- expressions using tener

- radical changing verbs

- talking about school rules

- talking about post-16 education options

- talking about how to improve your school experience

- talking about different job types and careers

- talking about work experience

- negative sentences

- using gustar

- using the future tense

- Comparing adjectives

- Use of infinitives

- talking about hobbies and sports

- talking about leisure activities in the past

- discussing opinions on cinema, television and music

- using the present tense and radical changing verbs

- Revision of present and future tenses

- Present continuous tense

- Use of the preterite tense

- Demonstrative adjectives like this, that, these, those

(revision at the end of lots of different tenses in this unit)

- how we celebrate our birthday and customs

- how the francophone world celebrates their festivals

- talking about going to festivals in the future

- recognising past, present and future tenses

- past tense time phrases

- key irregular verbs in the preterite

- past, present and future tenses revision

- talking about routes into fandom

- why do people want to become famous?

- talking about your abilities and achievements

- the pros and cons of being famous

- famous French people and the Paris Olympics successes

- Revising adjective agreement

- Key verbs in the imperfect tense

-Using three time frames

- Reflexive verbs

Check for Understanding

How we will check for understanding in this unit of work

Assessment Checkpoint:

All key four skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking, along with grammar will be tested throughout the year.

At the end of this unit, students will be able to talk and write about themselves and their family in three tenses. They will also have developed skills in reading and listening to others’ families.

Assessment Checkpoint:

All key four skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking, along with grammar will be tested throughout the year.

At the end of this unit, students will be able to talk and write about what makes them healthy and also what they will do in the future to maintain a healthy life. They will also have developed skills in reading and listening to others’ lifestyles.

Assessment Checkpoint:

All key four skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking, along with grammar will be tested throughout the year.

At the end of this unit, students will be able to talk and write about their likes and dislikes of education and their intentions for future education or employment.  They will also have developed skills in reading and listening to others’ future plans.

Assessment Checkpoint:

All key four skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking, along with grammar will be tested throughout the year.

At the end of this unit, students will be able to talk and write about what they are passionate about during their free time – sports, technology, media. They will also have developed skills in reading and listening to others’ interests.

Assessment Checkpoint:

All key four skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking, along with grammar will be tested throughout the year.

Students will be able to show a cultural appreciation social and cultural events of Spanish speaking countries as well as being able to talk about their own celebrations and traditions.

Assessment Checkpoint:

All key four skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking, along with grammar will be tested throughout the year.

Students will be able to talk about celebrities, their role in society and whether they would like to partake in that lifestyle.

Year 11

Unit: 1

Theme 2: Global Issues

& Travel and tourism

Unit: 2

Mocks and my studies – Theme 3: school

Unit: 3

Theme 3: Current and future study and employment 

Unit: 4

Revision of Year 10+11 units

Unit: 5

Revision and preparation for GCSE exams

 Unit: 6

Key Learning

Students need to know and remember from this unit of work

Global issues

-Talking about the environment and ways of protecting the environment

-Talking about poverty

-Talking about homelessness

Travel and tourism

-Talking about travelling to holiday destinations

-Talking about holiday accommodation

-Talking about the regions of Spain

-Understanding the tourist attractions of different regions of Spain and talking about what you can do in different areas

Using me preocupa

Using if sentences

Talking about the weather

Preparing a conversation topic on holidays

Asking and answering questions in Spanish

Using reflexive constructions such as se debe and se puede

Mocks and my studies

-          Giving your opinions about different subjects

-          Talking about your school and daily routine

-          Talking about school rules and uniform

-          Past paper practice and skills practice

-          Preparation for mocks

Using comparatives

Revising grammar points such as se debe and hay que

Current and future study and employment

Education post-16

Jobs, career choices and ambitions

-          Talking about options at 16

-          Discussing choices at 18: work or university

- Talking about different jobs

- Looking for and applying for jobs

Using a variety of tenses together

Including preparation for Speaking exam after Easter holidays

Focusing on Listening, Reading and Writing skills after the Speaking exam has finished

Check for Understanding

How we will check for understanding in this unit of work

Assessment Checkpoint:

All key four skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking, along with grammar will be tested throughout the year.

Students will be able to talk about ongoing social injustices and environmental problems – expressing concern and expressing their wishes for a better future.

Students will also be able to talk and write about past, present and future holidays as well as being able to understand written and spoken language about others’ holidays.

Assessment Checkpoint:

All key four skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking will be tested along with year 11 mock exams.

Students will be able to talk their education and vocational future as well as discussing past work experience.

Assessment Checkpoint:

All key four skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking, along with grammar will be tested throughout the year.

Students will be able to talk their education and vocational future as well as discussing past work experience. They will also be able to reading and listen to reports of native speaking students about their experience in their countries.

Assessment Checkpoint:

Students will be regularly assessed through live teacher feedback and in-class assessments on the key exams skills they need to develop for their GCSE

Students will review key vocabulary and grammar which they need to develop in order to improve their performances. Students will develop all key skills as well as develop their confidence.

Assessment

Students will be regularly assessed through live teacher feedback and in-class assessments on the key exams skills they need to develop for their GCSE

The students will also conduct their GCSE speaking exam.

Assessment

The students will conduct their GCSE exams in reading, listening and writing