At Our Lady Queen of Martyrs, we believe that the teaching of languages provides an opening to other cultures and increases pupil understanding of the wider world. The teaching of Italian broadens pupils’ understanding of connections between English and European languages.

This enables us to live, love and learn about another culture through its native language, customs and traditions.

Languages is a sacred subject:

  • Languages enables pupils to appreciate and learn from the diversity and richness of other cultures
  • It provides a unique opportunity to bring about communication, inclusion, reconciliation, peace and understanding
  • Languages can act as a gateway to celebrate the beauty of diversity and unity of all God’s family.

Languages enables pupils to know the universal story they are a part of:

  • Story Past – the development of a nation’s language and Italians culture
  • Story Present – appreciation of another culture and the language spoken, learning to communicate with others in their native tongue
  • Story Future – how respect, understanding and appreciation of others’ language can bring people together for a brighter future
Below are some Examples of how our teaching of Music contributes to our whole school pupil characteristics
Pupil Characteristic Key Word History contributes to this by providing opportunities to…
The leaders of tomorrow LEAD Able to understand and communicate with leaders and groups from another culture
Advocates STAND Know the difficulties of speaking about issues in a non-native language and support others to overcome this barrier
Powerful Orators SPEAK Converse in different languages with a wider range of people to get their message across
Gospel activists ACT Interact meaningfully with others within their community to see the growth of Gospel values
Inquisitive learners ASK Generate questions about another language and culture, working hard to discover answers
Creative problem solvers THINK Explore other possible approaches to a problem via the use of languages and collaborative learning
Inclusive team builders SHARE Learn about another culture and language, recognise the links to their own and other commonalities

You can find out more about how we implement this intent statement by reviewing the documents at the end of the page.