National Curriculum Links:

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Languages

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Purpose of study:

 

Learning a foreign language is a liberation from insularity and provides an opening to other cultures. A high-quality languages education should foster pupils’ curiosity and deepen their understanding of the world. 

 

Key attainment targets:

 

KS2: 

• Listen attentively to spoken language and show understanding by joining in and responding

• Explore the patterns and sounds of language through songs and rhymes and link the spelling, sound and meaning of words

• Appreciate stories, songs, poems and rhymes in the language

 

KS3: 

• Read literary texts in the language [such as stories, songs, poems and letters] to stimulate ideas, develop creative expression and expand understanding of the language and culture

• Write prose using an increasingly wide range of grammar and vocabulary

• Write creatively to express their own ideas and opinions, and translate short written text accurately into the foreign language

• Listen to a variety of forms of spoken language to obtain information and respond appropriately

 

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Music 

 

Purpose of study:

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Music is a universal language that embodies one of the highest forms of creativity. A high quality music education should engage and inspire pupils to develop a love of music and their talent as musicians, and so increase their self-confidence, creativity and sense of achievement. As pupils progress, they should develop a critical engagement with music, allowing them to compose, and to listen with discrimination to the best in the musical canon.

 

Key attainment targets:

 

KS2: 

• Appreciate and understand a wide range of high-quality live and recorded music drawn from different traditions and from great composers and musicians

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KS3:

• Listen with increasing discrimination to a wide range of music from great composers and musicians 

• Develop a deepening understanding.

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