Spanish A Level at Borden

Applications Open: - Friday 14 November 2025

Applications Close: - 13 February 2026. Applications may be considered after this date but it is strongly advised to apply before this deadline.

Entry Requirements: - Admission to courses - This is based on your needs and staff advice, but you should be aware of these points: 1. You will need to obtain a minimum of six GCSE passes at Level 5 or above including Mathematics and English (a minimum of a grade 5 in the reformed GCSE qualifications in English and Mathematics) and grades 9-6 in their preferred A-Level subjects or nearest equivalents. 2. Subjects have clear entry requirements. You will find these under the course details or from Subject Heads.

How to Apply: - Please apply via KentChoices (Internal and External Students)

External Applicants - please click here (This form is for external candidates and parents/carers to book a slot to ask any questions about the admissions process and Sixth Form at Highsted Grammar School). Please be aware that it is first come, first served. We will try our best to accommodate your preferences but this might not always be possible).

Internal candidates - should contact their Head of Year directly.

AQA 7692 SPECIFICATION (www.aqa.org.uk)

COURSE DETAILS

This course continues to develop the four language skills (listening, reading, writing and speaking) which were practised at GCSE level. However, students at A-Level will relish the opportunity to express themselves more fluently in speech and writing as opposed to learning large chunks of language off by heart.

Students will study a Spanish film and a book in depth and will also look at a range of topics, relating to Spain, including Spanish regional differences, Spanish youth and monarchies and dictatorship in the Spanish speaking world.

The study of Grammar continues, although students will find that a large portion of the grammar required will already have been introduced at GCSE level. The key difference is that now students will want to use grammar to create new language to facilitate self-expression.

Paper 1 – Listening, reading and writing. Includes listening, reading and translation exercises. (40%)

Paper 2 – Writing. Questions to answer based on our chosen film and book. (30%)

Paper 3 – Speaking. A discussion of a topic we have studied this year as well as an individual research project, presented and discussed. (30%)

Students must have studied GCSE Spanish and preferably achieved grade 6 or better.

Any career would be enhanced with a Modern Foreign Language. The following are examples where a language could be directly related to a career field:

Banking, accountancy, sales and marketing, law, translation and interpreting, teaching, food and drink, work with any international organisation, work with any company with international ties.