Modern Foreign Languages
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In Year 7 and Year 8, all students study either French or German.

In Year 9, students may choose to study Spanish as a second foreign langauges within a selection of ''option' subjects; Beginners courses in Japanese and Arabic are also available. End of Key Stage 3 National Curriculum Levels for Modern Foreign Languages for the students' first foreign language are reported in Year 9, at the end of Key Stage 3.

In Key Stage 4 (Years 10 amd 11), all students are encouraged to continue with one or two foreign languages, but the study of a modern foreign language is no longer compulsory. Those who continue are prepared for GCSE examinations in their chosen language(s): French, German or Spanish.

In Years 12 and 13, students may choose to study French, German or Spanish at AS / A2 level.

In the course of the year, there is a Lower School French exchange to St Germain-en-Laye (Paris), both a Lower and Middle School German exchange to Herrenberg and the possibility of a residential trip to Spain. In addition, in the Sixth Form, trips to France, Germany and Spain are encouraged.

Modern Languages Staff:

RJL	NU	KMG	RA	DJT
	GM	SAT	SBC

Language students at Hinchingbrooke also work with the Foreign Language Assistants (FLA)

Fleur Vidament (French)	Constantin Tschopoff (German)