German

EXAMINATION

German will only be offered to Key Stage 4 (Examination Stage) students in the 2025-2026 and 2026-2027 academic years

At Kingsbury High School the purpose of studying a foreign language is to provide students an opening to other cultures. Languages are part of the cultural richness of our society and the world in which we live and work. Learning languages contributes to mutual understanding, a sense of global citizenship and personal fulfilment. The ability to understand and communicate in another language is a lifelong skill for education, employment and leisure in this country and throughout the world.

Learning languages gives students opportunities to develop their listening, speaking, reading and writing skills and to express themselves with increasing confidence, independence and creativity. They explore the similarities and differences between other languages and English and learn how language can be manipulated and applied in different ways. The development of communication skills, together with understanding of the structure of language, lay the foundations for future study of other languages and support the development of literacy skills in a pupil’s own language.

The British-German Association highlights excellent reasons why you should learn German:

"German is the most useful foreign language in the view of UK employers (CBI, 2019) and the most in-demand additional language in UK job ads (University of Portsmouth, 2022). It is also the second highest paid of all additional languages in the UK (Preply, 2024). Employers look for candidates with knowledge of German to work in management, sales, technology, engineering, marketing, recruitment, finance, insurance and many other fields (CityLit, 2024). Very few graduates go into the “traditional” linguistic careers of interpreting, translating or teaching."

Click on this link to read many more excellent reasons to learn German, listed by The British-German Association: https://britishgermanassociation.org/why-learn-german/

The University of Cambridge also highlights the importance of learning German: https://www.mmll.cam.ac.uk/why-learn-german