Modern Foreign Languages

Art is the oxygen that allows other subjects to breathe.

At Hessle High School, we aim to create confident language students who are able to clearly communicate and have an appreciation of culture.

Learning a foreign language is a liberation from insularity and provides an opening to other cultures. A high-quality languages education should foster pupils’ curiosity and deepen their understanding of the world. The teaching should enable pupils to express their ideas and thoughts in another language and to understand and respond to its speakers, both in speech and in writing. It should also provide opportunities for them to communicate for practical purposes, learn new ways of thinking and read great literature in the original language. Language teaching should provide the foundation for learning further languages, equipping pupils to study and work in other countries. Adapted from National Curriculum, DfE, 2014.

We will empower all our students to develop a global perspective. We provide the language skills, cultural knowledge and understanding to enrich our students’ experience and to provide global opportunities, such as our international school trips, eating out experiences, Language Ambassadors programme and in-house Languages competitions. We aim to foster a lifelong passion for languages and cultures and an appreciation of diversity.  

The Hessle High School curriculum for modern foreign languages aims to ensure that all students:  

• Understand and respond to spoken and written language from a variety of sources  
• Speak with increasing confidence, fluency and spontaneity, finding ways of communicating what they want to say, continually improving the accuracy of their pronunciation and intonation  
• Read aloud with authentic pronunciation and accurate use of sounds – spelling correspondences, using phonic knowledge as their guide 
• Can write at varying length, for different purposes and audiences, using the variety of grammatical structures that they have learnt  
• Learn about target language speaking countries from a perspective not typically covered elsewhere in the curriculum 

Key Stage 3 Curriculum 

Key Stage 4 Curriculum

(GCSE French/Spanish - both AQA)