Spanish News
Bienvenido a todas las familias/Welcome to all families,
I would like to take this opportunity to welcome past and new families to Yeronga State School.
Me llamo Señora Andrea Bueno I am the Spanish Teacher for Prep to Year 6. This is my seventh year at Yeronga. I look forward in continuing to share our learning in future newsletters throughout the year and watch our students shine and support them in becoming global language learners.
The study of the Spanish language program at YSS provides opportunities for children to become more accepting of diversity, more respectful of others and more aware of their place in our multicultural society.
In correspondence with the Australian Curriculum, the process of teaching and learning Spanish at YSS focuses on ‘learn about’, ‘learn to’ and ‘I can’ statements. For example, through a variety of student-centred activities such as games, rhymes, songs, iPad applications, dialogues and collaborative hands-on projects, children learn numbers to count, tell the time, say their ages, research projects about Spanish speaking countries, etc. We have high expectations for all students.
The aim of the P-6 Spanish Language program at YSS is to equip students with communication skills and transferable language learning strategies they can use during their primary school level and beyond their school journey in learning languages. At the same time, students will gain insights into the relationship between language and culture, leading to lifelong personal, educational and vocational benefits.
Yeronga will continue using the ELLA F-2 program. The ELLA F-2 program will give students a great opportunity to expose them not just in learning a language but also cultural competence. ELLA is a digital, play-based program that includes a series of interactive applications (apps), aimed at making language learning engaging and interesting for children in early years (P-2) of schooling.
At Yeronga we encourage students to do 5 minutes of Spanish a day. To support your child at home you can encourage them to independently or as a family practice what they are learning by checking in with them. The school has purchased ROCKALINGUA (music based Spanish learning) subscription. Click on the hyperlink to take you to the site and login in as a student. I will email login details to families. Login details have been updated, you will be able to enter the username and password or scan the QR code. All the songs are also available on Spotify.
The websites and apps enlisted are great resources to support your families journey learning Spanish. Click on the links.
Spanish town (level and topic-based website, ideal to revise vocabulary)
Duolingo (In case your children want to advance his/her knowledge at their own pace. You need to create an account)
Duolingo Kids only on the App store for iPhones and iPads FREE app.
Video channels: Happy Learning Spanish and Learning through music with Basho & friends
Prep and new families to year 1 and 2 please see attached information about the ELLA apps. (PDF)
Please do not hesitate to email me ( abuen4@eq.edu.au) if you have any questions regards Spanish.
Muchas gracias, Señora Andrea Bueno