Modern Foreign Languages
At Flanderwell, our children will experience a high quality foreign language that we hope will inspire and excite them throughout their primary education, therefore in Key Stage 2 our pupils are taught French. We aim to shape our children into multi-lingual individuals, by promoting French throughout school in various forms – taking the register in French, celebrating children’s French work and knowledge and displaying key vocabulary within the classroom.
Our Curriculum
We follow Language Angels, which sets out the aims and programmes of study for French, ensuring that our curriculum coverage is consistent across year groups and key stages, whilst also ensuring that disciplinary knowledge is built upon each year. The purpose of this, is to ensure that all teachers are able to support pupils in developing their own knowledge and understanding about French, resulting in them being able to make appropriate links to learning within the community and throughout their lives.
Aims
Our aims are to ensure that all pupils:
- Can understand and respond to both spoken and written language.
- Can speak with increasing confidence and fluency, through discussion and asking questions.
- Can write using the grammatical structures learnt.
Knowledge
In order to achieve the above aims, children will be taught a range of disciplinary knowledge:
- To listen and respond to spoken language.
- To engage in conversations; ask and answer questions; express opinions and respond to others.
- To develop accurate pronunciation and intonation when reading aloud.
- To read carefully and show an understanding of words and phrases.
- To broaden their vocabulary by understanding new words.
- To orally describe people, places, things and actions.
Examples of Our French Curriculum Documentation
Y4-Seasons-Pupil-Self-Assessment.pdf
Language-Learning-Skills-Progression-KS2.pdfFrench-Tier-2-and-3-Vocabulary-Progression.pdf
Child-friendly assessment documents have been created for French, where the most important knowledge has been broken down. This is so children can see what they need to learn by the end of each term and by the end of the year. See below for some French child-friendly assessment examples.
To support children with their learning in French, Pupil Guides have been created for each year group and each unit of work. These are there to support children with remembering what they need to know for each unit. See below for some examples.
Y3-A2-Colours-and-Numbers-Pupil-Guide.pdf
Y6-French-Clothes-Pupil-Guide.pdf