Children in Year 3 this term, have been learning to name colours in Spanish using repetition, games, colouring, wordsearches etc. They have been able to say and write sentences about which colours they like and don’t like and which is their favourite. To extend intercultural understanding the pupils also learned about the myths and traditions surrounding Chinese New Year.
In Year 4, the children have revised numbers, days and months in Spanish to be able to say and write dates. To extend intercultural understanding the pupils also learned about the myths and traditions surrounding Chinese New Year. Pupils have also begun to be able to recognise and recall the Spanish words for parts of the face. They drew some monster faces and labelled them with descriptive sentences such as ‘El tiene tres ojos rojos’ (He has three red eyes!)
Year 5 in Spring have been exploring a range of topics in Spanish. Firstly, we reviewed our key conversation vocabulary and unscrambled a conversation that had been put in the wrong order! We then practiced our Spanish pronunciation skills and had the same conversation with our learning partner as if we were music shop owners. In our following lesson, we reviewed our Spanish musical instrument vocabulary in order to sing a song in Spanish. We have also looked and located Spanish speaking countries on a map this half term. Finally, we received our Pen Pal letters back from Spain and have used our conversation vocabulary to begin to write our own responses back in Spanish.
Year 6 have been focusing on ‘then and now’ as a link to our previous learning on places in town. We have been using adjectives to describe different places in town and have developed our descriptions at sentence level to explain what our local area was like ‘then’ in the past and what it looks like ‘now’.