How does French support our curriculum intent and Christian Vision?

Learning French opens up children's understanding of language even more. It reinforces concepts of nouns, verbs and adjectives already taught in English. Children will acquire language learning strategies for memorisation and retrieval as well as for listening, reading and understanding, all vital skills. Children will learn about the differences between French and English and appreciate and be able to copy the sound of the language at text level through songs, stories and rhymes. Importantly, learning another language gives children a deeper understanding of cultural differences and similarities and helps the children understand that they are part of a global community. 

How do we structure the curriculum in French?

We use the Sue Cave scheme of work. This is becuase it offered some flexiblity for our mixed aged classes and supported non specialist primary teachers. We are at the early stages of teaching French to the children and our scheme of work is quite new. Following lockdown, we have modified the curriculum again since we found children needed additional time with French. We are currently delivering units to the children with differentiation for those who need extension work.

	Sequence of knowledge and skills for French	[pdf 460KB]
	MFL Policy 2020	[pdf 564KB]
	KS2 Progression Key Attainment Targets	[pdf 441KB]
	Knowledge Mat	[pdf 177KB]