The learning of a Modern Foreign Language provides a valuable educational, social and cultural experience for the pupils at Lyng Primary School. Pupils develop communication and literacy skills that lay the foundation for future language learning with the ultimate aim being that pupils will feel willing and able to continue studying languages beyond key stage 2. They develop linguistic competence, extend their knowledge of how language works and explore differences and similarities between Spanish and English.  Learning another language raises awareness of the multilingual and multicultural world and introduces an international dimension to pupils’ learning, giving them an insight into their own culture and those of others.  The learning of a foreign language provides a medium for cross-curricular links and for reinforcement of knowledge, skills and understanding developed in other subjects.