Wellington Hindi School

Our Year 1 - Year 6 curriculum exposes our learners to a variety of learning methodologies and settings in the development of their Hindi communicative skills. Regular class attendance and some independent learning during each year will achieve for:

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Year 1: Learners can recognise, understand and use familiar words, phrases and sentences in familiar contexts and situations (ie homes, Hindi class).

Year 2: Learners can understand and use language that contains well-rehearsed sentence patterns and familiar vocabulary, and they can interact in predictable exchanges.  They can read the alphabet and words they have learned to say, and will attempt to use some simple words in simple sentences. They are aware of and understand some of the typical language and cultural conventions that operate in interpersonal communication. They are beginning to develop an awareness of language learning strategies.

Year 3: Learners can interact with confidence in a variety of routine situations. They can use familiar language with some flexibility and are developing skills and strategies for interpreting and experimenting with language with which they are less familiar. They can read and write most of what they have learned to say.

Year 4: Learners can interact with confidence in a variety of routine situations. They can use familiarlanguage flexibly. They are able to process some unfamiliar language so long as it is adequately contextualized, and they will experiment with new language both in speaking and in writing.  Their reading and writing skills are developing gradually and they are increasingly able to monitor and correct their written language, making use of resources of various kinds (e.g. dictionaries).

Year 5: Learners can communicate effectively in a wide range of informal and semi-formal social contexts and are beginning to develop the ability to use the more abstract language that is required in many academic contexts. Their language is generally fluent and is becoming increasingly accurate, especially where they are given opportunities to reflect and self-correct. They can read and process texts belonging to a variety of text types and are beginning to develop the ability to adjust their language in relation to the audience and overall communicative purpose.

Year 6: Learners can communicate effectively in a wide range of social contexts and are gaining increasing control of abstract and some academic vocabulary. Their listening and speaking skills are adequate to cope with the demands of a range of topics so long as these contexts are presented in ways that accommodate their need for simple definitions and carefully organized, visually supported materials. They have developed a range of strategies for dealing with written materials that include new or unfamiliar language and can skim and scan written text as well as read for detail. They can adjust aspects of their written and visual presentations to suit the requirements of different purposes and audiences and are also beginning to experiment with structures and communication features that are more common in written texts than in oral ones.