Spanish
Spanish
Our specialist teacher uses a variety of techniques to encourage the children to have an active engagement with Spanish, including games, role play and action songs. She also uses sign language to present new vocabulary, as this serves to demonstrate Spanish without the need for translation.
Being a diverse school that is rich with a wealth of cultures, languages are at the heart of Harrington Hill’s community. Learning languages helps to build bridges across different cultures and helps children to develop their understanding of the wider world. The British Council has highlighted Spanish as being the most important language for people in the UK to learn. Spanish is the second-mostly widely spoken language in the world, ahead of English, with 500 million native speakers across 21 countries. Learning Spanish helps children to develop their cognitive and multi-tasking skills, memory, and also aids their understanding of their English language through comparisons of grammar, conjugations and sentence structure.
At Harrington Hill, Spanish is taught from Reception class onwards. Children receive 30 minutes of Spanish each week, which is delivered by a qualified and native teacher. The scheme of work we use has been adopted by many primary schools across the borough.
Our specialist teacher uses a variety of techniques to encourage the children to have an active engagement with Spanish, including games, role play and action songs. She also uses sign language to present new vocabulary, as this serves to demonstrate Spanish without the need for translation.