French

Course summary

Modern languages are the gateway to a better, brighter future; your knowledge of a specific language will give you opportunities to live and work in a variety of non-English-speaking environments as well as opening your eyes to different views of the world. The values of tolerance, openness, inquisitiveness and flexibility are all fostered by learning a language. It is also like taking your brain to the gym - the cognitive benefits will impact positively on your other subjects! Languages are an excellent facilitating subject for degrees in both the Sciences and Humanities, as well as making an excellent degree option in themselves. We offer all of our languages within the IB (Mandarin Chinese and Japanese at Standard Level only). German, French and Spanish follow the AQA A Level, whilst in Chinese we follow the Edexcel A Level course. Japanese is currently only offered as an IB option.