A lot of our Hispanophones were part of the BBC Young Reporters Day yesterday. Here’s Ruby’s report on learning a new language in Year 7. “Students love our Spanish lessons here at Chantry Middle School. In them, we include fun exercises that mean the pupils get to compete against each other in teams. There are songs and raps that our Spanish teacher creates to help kids learn. One of my favourites is a rap that goes along to the song Gangnam Style but instead of the lyrics, it recites the numbers 1 to 20 in Spanish.
Some pieces of Spanish work can be difficult but here at Chantry, we have developed a way where students can choose what level to work at. Our teacher makes different levelled activities and you can pick whatever level you feel most comfortable with.

I interviewed one of our pupils about what he thought of the Spanish lessons. When asked if anything could be changed about the lessons, he said that nothing needed to be changed and that the lessons were really good already.” ¡Fenomenal!