MFL
Department Ethos
The Modern Foreign Languages department is committed to nurturing confident, culturally aware, and linguistically capable students. We believe that learning a foreign language is not only a gateway to global citizenship but also a powerful tool for personal growth, empathy, and opportunity.
MFL Curriculum Content
Key Stage 3
Learning a foreign language is about more than just vocabulary—it’s a gateway to global thinking. Pupils develop fluency across all four skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing), explore grammar deeply, and gain cultural awareness. The curriculum prepares them not just for exams, but for real-world communication and lifelong learning.
Understand and respond to spoken and written language from a variety of authentic sources.
Speak with confidence, fluency, and spontaneity—engaging in discussions, asking questions, and improving pronunciation and intonation.
Write effectively for different purposes and audiences, using a range of grammatical structures.
Appreciate literature and cultural content in the target language.
Resources
At KS3 we have designed our curriculum in line with national guidelines, ensuring the topics learned are relevant, useful and provide the building blocks for success at KS4.
The SOLAs have been created to incorporate equal weighting of the four skills (reading, writing, speaking and listening).
Pupils are setted in MFL to provide the very best personalised teaching that is adapted to their ability to support rapid progress and competence.
Pupils receive 4 lessons of their main language a fortnight and, depending on individual needs will attend an extra 2 sessions a fortnight of either numeracy, literacy or a second foreign language.
Assessment takes place after every module which is approximately every half term, where they are tested on two of the four skills alternately.
Key Stage 4
KS4 is based on the Spanish and French SOLA from the Oxford AQA resources that have been designed for the new GCSE specification which will be first examined in 2026.
Pupils will cover the 3 themes of People and lifestyles, popular culture and communication and the world around us.
They will take four exams across the 4 skills which are equally weighted through the AQA exam board, where they will be entered for all exams either in the higher or foundation tier.