Department Staff

• Jaya Chetti-Mootoosamy - Head of Modern Foreign Languages: j.chetti@fulhamboysschool.org.uk
• Khady Konaté - ITT Coordinator and French Teacher
• Annie Embiricos - MFL Teacher
• Kevin Scalia -  Spanish Teacher
• Alexandra Gaudé - French Teacher
• Martin Hartigan - Latin Teacher

Year 7 curriculum

• Greetings/ Introductions/ Routines/ Alphabet/ Numbers
• Family
• Pets
• Food
• Sports
• School life/ items of school bag
• Countries/ Transport
• Geographical features

 How the boys will be assessed in Year 7

• At the end of each topic, we assess 2 out of the 4 skills of Listening, Reading, Speaking and Writing. These are class-based.
• Students will also be assessed through formal exams twice in the academic year. For each of these cycles of data capture, all 4 skills are assessed within a fortnight. This will normally occur at the beginning of spring term 1 and at the beginning of summer term 2. The speaking exams are the only components which remain class-based. All the other skills are exam-based.

Year 8 curriculum

• Accommodation
• Home Life
• Daily Routine + past tense
• Jobs
• Part-time jobs & pocket money
• Future plans & Employment
• Your area & what there is
• Problems in the area
• Cultural awareness of TL countries

How the boys will be assessed in Year 8 

• At the end of each topic, we assess 2 out of the 4 skills of Listening, Reading, Speaking and Writing. These are class-based.

• Students will also be assessed through formal exams twice in the academic year. For each of these cycles of data capture, all 4 skills are assessed within a fortnight. This will normally occur at the beginning of spring term 1 and at the beginning of summer term 2. The speaking exams are the only components which remain class-based. All the other skills are exam-based.

    Year 9 curriculum

• Film Study
• TV, Cinema
• Music, Social Media
• Technology
• Fashion & Trends
• Attitude towards food
• Healthy Lifestyle
• Aches & Pains

How the boys will be assessed in Year 9 

• At the end of each topic, we assess 2 out of the 4 skills of Listening, Reading, Speaking and Writing. These are class-based.
• Students will also be assessed through formal exams twice in the academic year. For each of these cycles of data capture, all 4 skills are assessed within a fortnight. This will normally occur at the end of autumn term 2 and at the beginning of summer term 2. The speaking exams are the only components which remain class-based. All the other skills are exam-based.

Year 10 curriculum

• Autumn 1: Topic 1: Me, my family and friends
• Autumn 2: Topic 5: Home, town, neighbourhood and region
• Spring 1: Topic 9: My studies & Topic 10: Life at school/college
• Spring 2: Topic 11: Education post-16 & Topic 12: Jobs, career choices and ambitions 
• Summer 1: Topic 4: Customs and festivals in French-speaking countries/communities Topic 3: Free-time activities. 
• Summer 2: Topic 2: Technology in everyday life 

How the boys will be assessed in Year 10

• At the end of each topic, we assess 2 out of the 4 skills of Listening, Reading, Speaking and Writing. These are class-based.
• Students will also be assessed through formal exams twice in the academic year. For each of these exam cycles, all 4 skills are assessed within a fortnight. This will normally occur at the end of autumn term 2 and at the beginning of summer term 1. The speaking exams are the only components which remain class-based for the autumn term 2 session but for the end of year of year exam, this is also exam-based.

Year 11 curriculum

• Autumn 1: Topic 8: Travel and tourism & Topic 6: Social Issues.
• Autumn 2: & Topic 7: Global issues.
• Spring Terms & Summer Term 1: Revision and Practice of exam-style questions.+ GCSE Speaking exam.

How the boys will be assessed in Year 11

At the beginning of year 11, students sit an academic fitness test to gauge their level after the summer break. This is a writing unit.

• At the end of each topic, we assess 2 out of the 4 skills of Listening, Reading, Speaking and Writing. These are class-based
• Students will also be assessed through formal mocks exams by the middle of January. The 
•  Speaking exam take place at the beginning of December to model the format of the actual 
• GCSE. All 4 skills are assessed during that time.
• Actual GCSE Speaking exams are conducted during the week commencing the last week of 
• April/ first week of May.

MFL Co-Curricular

The department is heavily involved in the school’s co-curricular programme, including lunchtime activities.

We currently offer French board games, French Cinema, French booster sessions, Foreign Language Spelling Bee, Spanish for beginners, Cultural discovery including cooking and early GCSE preparation for bi-lingual students.

GCSE French/ Spanish

Examination Board AQA. This qualification is linear. Linear means that students will sit all their exams at the end of the course. The new AQA French/Spanish GCSE is designed to stimulate and motivate students. There are familiar topics as well as new ones that will inspire students to further their interests in the culture of the target-language countries. We will be therefore looking more specifically at France/Spain and the French-speaking/ Spanish-speaking communities and countries.

The French/Spanish GCSE offers a Foundation Tier (grades 1–5) or a Higher Tier (grades 4–9) and, each exam is spread across four question papers. Students must take all four question papers at the same tier and all question papers must be taken in the same series.