Modern Foreign Languages
Both French and German have long enjoyed equal status in the school with half the new intake learning French and the other German. Currently 25% of the students in Year 7 begin Fast Track programmes of study leading to sitting the GCSE in Year 9 and we are now in the 4th year of our students taking their exams 2 years early.
With the imminent introduction of the English Baccalaureate, we will be introducing a further 25% of students to Fast Track languages in KS3 from September.
The area, having piloted and introduced Fast Track languages to the school, is now established in its work with KS3 students.
Successful students can go on to choose another language in KS4. including Spanish which is not only a very popular choice, but has also been supplemented by a Foreign Language Assistant for the last 2 years. We have also applied for assistants in French and German for the next academic year.
The department has just completed its 1st year of the new OCR GCSE syllabus and good results are expected.
We are situated in the language base with all classrooms being networked and having interactive whiteboards. We also have our own bank of 20 mobile laptops which can be booked for any classroom based language lesson.
The school's recent OFSTED (July 2010) recognised that the school was deemed to be outstanding.
