Spanish


Modern Foreign Languages

The modern foreign language studied at Longworth Primary School is Spanish. In line with the 2014 National Curriculum for Modern Foreign Languages, we aim to ensure that all children:

  • Understand and respond to spoken and written language from a variety of authentic sources.
  • Are able to speak with increasing confidence, fluency and spontaneity, finding ways of communicating what they want to say, including through discussion and asking questions, and that they are 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 and mainly in the format of worksheets.
  • Discover and develop an appreciation of a range of writing in the language studied.
  • A high quality languages education should foster children’s curiosity and deepen their understanding of the world whilst also equipping them with the skills and confidence to interact within it, certainly within Spanish speaking countries.


At Longworth Primary School, we are committed to ensuring that competence in another language enables children to interpret, create and exchange meaning within and across cultures. It also helps children develop skills that will open further opportunities later in life.


The teaching of Spanish in KS2 provides an appropriate balance of spoken and written language and lays the foundations for further foreign languages teaching at KS3.


In KS2, each class has a timetabled lesson of 30 minutes per week which uses the Spanish Lightbulb Programme to develop the skills of speaking, listening, reading and writing within the subject such that:

Children are taught to listen attentively to spoken language and respond, as well as developing these skills. Children develop an appreciation of a variety of stories, songs, poems and rhymes in Spanish that are delivered throughout the curriculum. By the time children are ready to leave Longworth Primary School, children will be equipped with sequential knowledge built up during their primary school years: 

  • I can say hello and goodbye in Spanish
  • I can ask someone what they are called and say what I am called in Spanish
  • I can ask someone how they are and say how I am in Spanish
  • I can ask someone their age and say my age in Spanish
  • I can count up to 31 in Spanish
  • I can say what the date is in Spanish
  • I can ask someone when their birthday is and say when my birthday is in Spanish
  • I can wish someone happy birthday in Spanish
  • I can say the alphabet in Spanish
  • I can name some things I need for school in Spanish
  • I understand when to use un and une / un and una in Spanish
  • I can say what is in the classroom in Spanish
  • I can use el, la, los, las in Spanish correctly
  • I can make the plurals of nouns in Spanish
  • I can ask how to spell a word in Spanish
  • I can ask someone where they live and say where I live in Spanish
  • I can make a sentence negative by using no in Spanish
  • I understand how to use hay and no hay in Spanish
  • I understand when to use unos and unas in Spanish
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