IB Spanish

The opportunities offered by the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme are very varied, both in terms of level and of the freedom offered within the syllabus. The objective is to be able to understand the written and the spoken language to a high level and to use them both accurately and fluently with a good understanding of register.  How this is achieved is left to the teacher.

In our Spanish teaching we exploit the flexibility of the syllabus to the full, studying a very wide range of texts and material, from the simple and practical to the complex and literary. What we do in lessons is just the start, for we ensure that the boys and girls have opportunities to exploit their linguistic knowledge in as many ways as possible. For example IB students have performed some very entertaining (and demanding) Spanish plays: in 2009, La estanquera de Vallecas a racy modern drama of love and conflict and in 2010 El médico de su honra, a seventeenth-century verse tragedy.  The IB students teach Spanish to children in Sherborne Primary School, and for the past two years they have participated in an exciting project in Ecuador, teaching English to a large number of young people, bubbling with enthusiasm, in a small, deprived village near the town of Ibarra. This is a rich and heady programme of education in the fullest sense.

Click here for  The León Trip  and  The Córdoba Trip