Which language do children learn in Key Stage 2?

Which language do children learn in Key Stage 2? by Clare Seccombe


This short survey follows a discussion in the Languages in Primary School Facebook group about Spanish becoming more popular at the expense of French.  Thank you if you were one of the 436 people who took the time to respond.

The results of the survey show that French has dipped a little over the last couple of years, and that Spanish has gained by more or less the same amount.  The other languages are not showing much change.

Quite a few respondents had ticked more than one language, some of them several languages.  This implies that there are some schools which do more than one language, some of them several languages.  Can anyone shed any light on these findings?

I've used another aspect of Canva - the slideshow - to present the results, which you can see above, alongside the same question from 2018 and 2015 as a point of comparison.