Spanish

The Spanish curriculum intends to deepen a curiosity and love of languages and other cultures, as well as develop an advanced understanding of how languages work. Through a focus on both culture and communication, we aim to foster a passion for exploring a foreign language and comparing it to our own.

Language learning provides an insight into others’ countries and cultures and thus widens our intellectual horizons and promotes social mobility. We aim to broaden students’ knowledge and skills beyond the subject specification, exposing them to as much authentic material as possible.

We aim to challenge our students to achieve a high level of communicative competence in the four equally important attainment targets of listening, speaking, reading and writing, thus not only developing literacy skills but also strengthening students’ resilience and problem-solving skills.  

Through studying Spanish, students will see the benefits of travelling the world and will be offered the opportunity to visit and have first-hand experience of family life in Spain, therefore ensuring they have the skills to communicate and have meaningful and life-changing experience. 

What will I study

Students will study topics from a range of political, social and cultural themes all in relation to the Spanish-speaking world following the AQA A-Level course: 

• Traditional and modern values
• Cyberspace
• Equality of the sexes
• Influence of idols
• Regional identity in Spain
• Cultural heritage
• Immigration
• Racism
• Coexistence
• Young people today, citizens of tomorrow
• Monarchies and dictatorships
• Popular movements