Mr A Green - Head of Department - adg@bws.wilts.sch.uk
Mrs H Gosse - Teacher of French - hmg@bws.wilts.sch.uk
Mrs O Telford - Teacher of French - ot@bws.wilts.sch.uk
Mrs L Drummond – Teacher of French - lcd@bws.wilts.sch.uk
Every student is allocated a First Foreign Language (French, German or Spanish) in Year 7. Languages are taught in form groups. All pupils study this First Language up to GCSE in Year 11. Students can then continue with French, German or Spanish into A-Level at either Bishop Wordsworth’s School or our partner school, South Wilts’ Grammar School. In Year 9, students are allocated a Second Foreign Language and complete a one-year foundation course. Pupils with an outstanding talent for languages will have the opportunity of taking two languages up to Year 11. The foundation course in their Second Language offers enough core knowledge for a gifted linguist to start a GCSE course.
Our comprehensive Key Stage 3 MFL courses guarantee our students solid preparation to face the challenge of the new GCSEs introduced in September 2016. We use the Studio course at KS3 and do the Edexcel exam board at GCSE.
We offer a holistic approach to enhance the development of the four core skills (writing, reading, listening and speaking). Pupils will be offered wide-ranging opportunities to experience culture, such as a residential trips to France in Year 9 and an Exchange in collaboration with SWGS in Year 10 and 13 (Nantes).