The Grove Primary School

MFL Curriculum Statement

Intent

The 2014 National Curriculum for Modern Foreign Languages aims to ensure that all children:

• Understand and respond to spoken and written language from a variety of authentic sources.
• Are able to speak with increasing confidence, fluency and spontaneity, finding ways of communicating what they want to say, including through discussion and asking questions, and that they are continually improving the accuracy of their pronunciation and intonation.
• Can write at varying length, for different purpose, using the variety of grammatical structures that they have learnt.
• Discover and develop an appreciation of a range of writing in the language studied.
 

A high quality languages education should foster children’s curiosity and deepen their understanding of the world. At The Grove Primary School we are committed to ensuring that competence in another language enables children to interpret, create and exchange meaning within and across cultures. It also helps children develop skills that will open further opportunities later in life. The teaching of French across all year groups in KS2 provides an appropriate balance of spoken and written language and lays the foundations for further foreign language teaching at KS3.

Implementation

In KS2, each class has a weekly timetabled French lesson of at least 30 minutes.
Lessons across the Key Stage support the skills of speaking, listening, reading and writing:

• Children are taught to listen attentively to spoken language and respond, joining in with songs, rhymes and games.

• Children are taught to recall key vocabulary from different areas -  verbally to begin with, then     moving onto recognising and using its written form.

•Children are taught to use and adapt basic phrases so that they are able to ask and answer questions and use vocabulary within the context of a sentence.

• Children develop an appreciation of a variety of stories, songs, poems and rhymes in French that are delivered through the curriculum content.
• Where appropriate, the vocabulary and phrases learnt in French link closely to our termly cross-curricular topics
• Our planning is mainly based on the primary French scheme of work from ‘La Jolie Ronde’ but supplemented by additional resources to create closer cross-curriculum links.
 

Impact:

As a result of our MFL curriculum, children will have the skills, knowledge and understanding required to learn a new language. They will have developed their oracy and literacy skills as well as their understanding of their own culture/s and those of others. Our children will be enthusiastic about languages and inspired to continue their language-learning journey with confidence as they move up to KS3 and beyond, thereby equipping them with the means to widen their horizons and possibly, in the future, to study and work in other countries.