So far this year Year 10 have done a lot of work with Mr Selvey and their form tutors about various ways to revise practically and finding strategies to help their learning ‘stick’ (making it memorable enough to remember, especially when it comes to exam season!). Miss Rainey has also been challenging Year 10 Spanish GCSE students to take a more independent, creative approach to their learning through homework tasks and many students have produced some wonderful pieces of work since the challenge started back in October.
Contributions have varied massively – from students who have demonstrated their cooking skills by making a delicious range of hispanic treats such as paella or churros to others who have investigated their Spanish horoscopes and analysed the truth behind the predictions. There have also been students who watched and translated popular Disney songs like Bajo del Mar (Under the Sea) and Suéltalo (Let it Go) or even translated their favourite songs into Spanish. Other contributions have seen some brave students take on the teaching role at home and teach their family members some of the Spanish basics and Henok Haile even translated Martin Luther King’s inspirational speech: “Tengo un sueño” (I have a dream).
Whilst these students have all shown a fantastic standard of independent study, there have been two students who have contributed in a particularly outstanding way and the MFL department feel very excited and proud to share these with our community.
Bethany has amazed us with her blend of artistic talents and witty storyboard by creating her very own Spanish comic. She drafted the ideas for the story and has brought to life a world of characters who use the very Spanish she has learnt in the classroom!
Eesha found a way to improve her listening skills whilst also channeling her creativity by watching a Mexican crafting blogger’s video, finding out any unknown vocabulary and then creating the masterpiece seen in the photograph above! Given the nature of challenge in the Spanish instructions and complex crafting, this piece of work took Eesha no less than two days. She demonstrated such commitment to learning that Mrs Hazeldine, Principal, and one of our very own governors both expressed their pride and congratulations to Eesha’s inspirational attitude to learning in person on Friday 1 March. Eesha has kindly given this piece of work to MFL department, so please feel free to come and check out Eesha’s hard work on the top floor in languages!
Well done to all the language students who are consistently demonstrating such high aspirations in Spanish!
