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Modern Foreign Languages

Academic Structure

Years 7 to 11

Currently French and Latin are compulsory in Year 7. In Year 8 students can choose to continue with Latin and all keep French as their foreign language.

In Year 9 we encourage all students to take up a second modern language in addition to French - either German or Spanish. We expect that most pupils will continue with two languages to GCSE in Year 11.

Sixth Form

Language students at Windermere St Anne's can study French, German, Spanish and Latin at both AS and A2 Level.

What about other Languages?

We can arrange for Portuguese, Russian and Italian to be taught in private lessons and we have had students taking exams in Chinese and Polish!

Additional information

We keep our class sizes as small as possible. In French we set pupils according to ability from Year 8 onwards but Spanish and German are taught in mixed ability classes.

A typical lesson will include a mixture of listening, reading, speaking and writing tasks and students will also have homework to do.

Up to GCSE level students will learn (amongst other things) how to order food, buy clothes, describe their holidays, hobbies, region, house and future plans in the foreign language. Grammar is very important and students learn how to use tenses to describe past, present and future events.

In the Sixth Form we cover topics such as the environment, immigration and multiculturalism, exclusion, world events and at A2 students have the chance to study works of literature in their chosen language.

Foreign Language trips

This is a subject very dear to our hearts in the language department. We believe that it is absolutely vital that our students have the opportunity to experience life in France, Spain or Germany and we run the following trips and exchanges.

French
Year 9 trip to Maison Claire Fontaine near Dijon.

For Years 10 , 11 and Sixth Form we have run very successful exchange trips for many years with our French partner school. All exchange trips are accompanied by a member of staff.

Students stay with families and attend lessons at the French school. These trips are a lot of fun.

Spanish

Year 10 trip to Valencia

This is hugely popular and very successful. This visit allows students to experience first hand the world famous Fallas festival as well as daily life in Spain.

For Sixth Form students, the department also organises exchanges, again to Valencia, often to coincide with the Fallas festival but these could take place at any time.

German

We had to drag last year's Year 11 students away from Louisenlund, a Round Square school in Germany. If you study German you too will have the chance to experience Louisenlund!