About Us

At Meldrum Academy, the Modern Languages Faculty is passionate about inspiring our young people to communicate with confidence, appreciate different cultures, and develop skills for life and work in a global society. We offer a dynamic curriculum that supports learners at all levels and celebrates linguistic diversity. Through engaging lessons, cultural experiences, and a focus on real-world language use, we aim to equip our pupils with the tools they need to become curious, respectful, and effective global citizens. 

All members of the MFL team are real enthusiasts for the languages they teach and are keen to encourage young people to develop their language skills by using a variety of teaching materials and resources. We are especially keen on digital learning and use a variety of ICT in our lessons including subscriptions to a number of websites.

We recognise the importance a language can play in the workplace and have developed a number of links with outside partners to help pupils  develop the skills employers are looking for. In particular, we work closely with SCILT (Scotland’s National Centre for Languages) and pupils always enjoy their events.

BGE (S1,2 & 3) in MFL

Young people in S1 and S2 study French, building on the language learning they have done in Primary. S1 also get the opportunity to explore a variety of other languages in their MFL period. We aim to build not only the pupils’ knowledge of the language but also their confidence in using the language.  A variety of teaching and learning approaches is used to explore and practise these themes, with the pupils being encouraged to be actively involved in developing their language learning and to take increasing responsibility for their own learning and progress.  Having achieved a sound grounding in the basic elements of language learning, the opportunity for some personalisation and choice is introduced at the end of S2 when pupils can continue with French or can choose to begin Spanish or German instead of or in addition to French.

• S1: 3 periods of French and 1 period of an additional language

• S2: 2 periods of French

• S3: Through Personalisation and Choice young people can choose French, Spanish, German (fast-track and beginners), Languages for Life – or a combination of all 

Supporting Your Young Person at Home

Sentence Builder Booklets

All young people are issued with sentence builder booklets and are encouraged to regularly consolidate their learning at home. Online versions of these booklets can be found by clicking the links below:

S1 Sentence Builder Booklet

S2 Sentence Builder Booklet

S3 French Sentence Builder Booklet

S3 German Sentence Builder Booklet

Senior Phase (S4,5 & 6) MFL Pathways

The following courses are offered in the senior phase: 

• French (National 3, 4, 5, Higher and Advanced higher)

• Spanish (National 4, 5, Higher and Advanced higher)

• German (National 4, 5 and Higher) an Open University YAAS course for SCQF Level 7 German

• Italian (Advanced Higher)

• Languages for Work and Culture (SCQF Level 3 and 4)

• Mandarin (distance learning course)

• Gaelic (distance learning course)

• Arabic (distance learning course)

• The Scottish Baccalaureate(SCQF Level 7)

Click here to access the MFL  area of the Subject Choice website.