Students accredited in Foundation PSP Spanish demonstrate confident and consistent engagement with the core language skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. They can understand and produce short passages and dialogues on familiar topics such as identity, family, pets, school life, daily routines, hobbies, and food. They apply memorised vocabulary and grammatical structures — including the present tense, adjective agreement, regular verb patterns, and basic opinion phrases — to build coherent sentences in both spoken and written Spanish.

Phonics and pronunciation are explicitly taught to support oral fluency and confidence, and students develop strategies for decoding written texts and spotting cognates. They begin to express and justify opinions using simple connectives and time markers, and learn to manipulate sentence structures with growing independence. Students explore the cultures of Spain and Latin America through classroom discussion, songs, festivals, and project work, and begin to reflect on the diversity of the Hispanic world. By the end of Year 8, they are able to communicate clearly on familiar topics and are well-prepared to develop greater fluency and depth in Pathways PSP.

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