Ancient and Modern Languages
KS1 Celebrating Languages and Celebrating Cultures
We are a very diverse school linguistically! A majority of our pupils are bilingual or multilingual. We work hard to build on this and celebrate this diversity, whilst also giving pupils who are monolingual, a solid grounding for learning a new language. In Key Stage 1 (Year 1 and 2) we celebrate languages & cultures, giving children the opportunity to share their home languages/cultures with their classes. In Key Stage 2 (Years 3 to 5) we have introduced Latin. Year 6 are continuing with French, but this will be phased out to include Latin in the full Key Stage 2.
Latin - Year 3,4,5 and 6
We are very proud to have introduced Latin to our curriculum. The teachers in KS2 have just had training in teaching Maximum Classics (Sept 24) and we are going to adjust our teaching in line with this training. If you click on this link, there is a short video which explains the programme.
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Academic Excellence Our intent for the teaching of Latin is to teach children in a rich, balanced and progressive curriculum, using Latin to support vocabulary development, a deeper understanding of grammatical structures in English and foreign languages and for children to investigate the derivatives of language alongside historical stories. The teaching of Latin follows a clear progression in line with age-related expectation. Here at St Joseph’s enhancing children’s vocabulary and promoting a love of reading and language is at the heart of everything we do. |
We are so lucky at St Joseph’s to have such a wide and diverse community in which 77% of our students are speakers of another language in addition to English. Language lies at the heart of ideas about individual identity and community and learning another language can do a great deal to shape children’s ideas in this critical area as well as giving them a new perspective on their own language.
Since Latin lies at the root of 60% of English words, studying it has a beneficial impact on development of English vocabulary across a range of subjects – such as science, geography and history – and language skills in general.
