Many schools are moving to a two-year Key Stage 3 as part of their response to the new curriculum, and Hugh Christie Technology College is one of them.

Karine Kleywegt, Director of Languages at Hugh Christie has designed a scheme of work to cater for the condensed KS3 curriculum, which has been in place for a few years in some schools now.

Creating a new scheme of work to cater for the need to shorten the Key Stage 3 curriculum to two years provides an opportunity for us to teach a vocabulary-focused content in schemes of work, and enables us to teach languages using more ICT and interactive games as well as project based learning.

For the 2008/9 Teachnet UK programme, Carine and Karine offered resources for Year 7 French and Spanish as part of the new curriculum offering. This year for the 2009/10 programme, they have completed the whole of the codensed KS3 programme, adding materials for Year 8 French and Spanish.