Year 10 Spanish students finished their first term with a mini-production of a scene from their own soap opera.
Year 10 Spanish students finished their first term with a mini-production of a scene from their own soap opera; 'Las Hermanas Sanchez' (The Sanchez Sisters), set in Murcia, Spain.
The students had been linking many of their lessons to the Spanish soap opera, with the intention of promoting cross-curricular links and creating engagement and interest. Throughout the Autumn term, the students had a notice board dedicated to the Sanchez family and kept adding to it as regular intervals.
As they did with their previous project, the students wanted to approach their work differently and learn in a more dramatic way, quite literally this time! The topic they were studying was 'Education and Future Prospects', as part of their GCSE course. This allowed them to create a scene of the play in which the sisters all discussed what they wanted to do in life. It was well prepared with the students thinking about Spanish culture (the role of women and the family), their use of more complex grammar (the subjunctive tense and idiomatic language) as well as the topic area itself.
A student teacher from Durham also helped prepare them for this work in class and the project was completed in the theatre with the studio recording the piece. It was a really enjoyable project which allowed the students to bring a creative flair and personal voice to their work as the plot and the script were all theirs.
You can watch the first episode by clicking below: