Curriculum Leader: Mr B Mitchinson
Teaching Staff:
Mrs C Farren
Mr H Jacks
Mrs Byrne
Our MFL Curriculum at St Francis Xavier’s Academy is designed around the context of our students – Year 11 students in Merseyside achieve lower in MFL qualifications compared to the national average.
We must close this gap in MFL learning for future Xaverians.
Our Xaverians will learn to love languages through the carefully designed sequencing, ensuring that they can communicate in spoken and written form about topics such as home life, school and leisure activities as well as enhancing their cultural capital.
Strong relationships are important to our staff who teach engaging lessons that promote progression for all.
A Xaverian linguist will:
- become a global citizen with appreciation of other cultures and understand the value of language learning
- be able to communicate verbally and in written form about their lives and interests
- understand listening and reading passages in the target language
- feel a passion for languages and continue as a linguist into their adult lives.
The MFL department at SFX has very experienced staff who endeavour to provide engaging, ambitious and knowledge enhancing lessons. It aims to produce skilled linguists who are independent, enthusiastic and resilient whilst also striving to enhance their cultural capital through interesting and relevant inclusion of events, customs, traditions and points of interest across the Hispanic world.
By engaging and mastering this language it will also promote the dignity of the human person regardless of who they are or what language they speak. It will foster solidarity, particularly with the poorer Spanish speaking countries of the world.
Trips Nice/Barcelona
Spanish tapas
Poster/Christmas competitions
Languages in the Community with York University
Importance of Languages/ careers by Lancaster University
Cultural events integrated into lessons like World Cup, Eurovision and Euros
Ensuring homework is completed, can be checked via Arbor.
Talking about language lessons at home
Encourage pupils to teach their parents something from the lesson how to say I like……
Encouraging your child to see the benefits of speaking other languages
Revision guides and workbooks
Spanish restaurants
Visits to Spain
Youtube
Spotify
Netflix shows such as Lupin, Casa de papel,
Spanish films, la Misma Luna,Coco, Laberintho del Fauno
KS3 CGP Revision Guides
KS4/5 el pais, le monde apps
Blooket, Quizlet, Memrise, Seneca, Languagesonline, Languagenut, Kahoot, I Jour, 1 Actu, AQA website pastpapers, https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize, Youtube, Spotify
