Spanish
The Robert Smyth Academy - Leicestershire
01858440770
Burnmill Road, Market Harborough, LE16 7JG
Course summary

This course aims to: • Build on the knowledge you gained at GCSE, furthering your language skills in reading, listening, speaking, and writing. You will become more fluent, independent, and confident when interacting. • Explore key issues in the context of a Spanish-speaking country that will inspire cultural curiosity. You will be able to develop your own views and express them in Spanish. • Analyse Spanish literary and cinematographic work. • Enable you to consolidate a range of general and language-specific study and communication skills through research, group work, oral presentations, essay writing, use of ICT, etc. The emphasis in Year 12 is on developing your language proficiency through the study of a variety of themes rooted in Spanish-speaking countries. You will start by consolidating the foundations laid at GCSE during a carefully devised bridging program. We then build on those skills gradually. Given the nature of foreign language study, we work very hard to provide you with a variety of opportunities for foreign travel: study visits, work experience, trips to university, conferences for Sixth Formers, and, when appropriate, theatre and cinema visits.

Entry requirements

In order to gain entry into Robert Smyth Academy Sixth Form you will need a minimum of 40 points, including a grade 4 in English and maths, from your best eight GCSEs. Grade 5 or above in GCSE Spanish.

How you'll be assessed

Course Content and Assessment In Year 12, the course will focus on the following themes: Aspects of Hispanic society: ● Modern and traditional values ● Cyberspace ● Equal rights Artistic culture in the Hispanic world: ● Modern day idols ● Spanish regional identity ● Cultural heritage or cultural landscape In Year 13, you will carry on developing your language skills and study the following themes ● Multiculturalism in Hispanic society: ● Immigration ● Racism ● Integration Aspects of political life in the Hispanic world: ● Today’s youth, tomorrow’s citizens ● Monarchies, republics and dictatorships ● Popular movements

School Info

About Education Provider

RegionEast Midlands
Local AuthorityLeicestershire
Ofsted RatingGood
Gender TypeCo-Educational
AddressBurnmill Road, Market Harborough, LE16 7JG