Abertillery Comprehensive: Spanish 'for jobs, holidays'

Modern foreign language learning in secondary schools in Wales is "declining rapidly" according to a major study.

Budget cuts, overloaded school timetables and Welsh government assessment systems were blamed.

Numbers of pupils taking French and German at GCSE have halved since 2002.

The education minister has now announced "a radical and new approach" including schools which will be centres of excellence.

Pupils at Abertillery Comprehensive have the option of learning Spanish as the only modern language on offer. Numbers taking the GCSE have risen in recent years.

They explain why they chose to learn Spanish - and head of languages Melanie Gill explains why it has been difficult to compete with other subjects.