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Intent
Intent
We believe that learning a language at primary school enriches the curriculum. It provides enjoyment, excitement and challenge and helps to develop positive attitudes to language learning throughout life.
The aim of our language curriculum is that all children will develop the traits necessary to become a ‘linguist.’
To prepare our children for Secondary School, pupils will:
Know why they are learning a foreign language.
Know ways to help themselves learn and use a foreign language.
Have some understanding of how a foreign language works.
Have produced some foreign language in speech and writing.
Have listened to and understood a foreign language.
Have some emerging literacy in a foreign language.
Implementation
Implementation
Our Modern Foreign Language curriculum uses substantive concepts (our ‘Big Ideas’) as the basis for supporting pupils to form a schema (a conceptual system for understanding knowledge). Children’s schema is strengthened through knowledge and connections deepen through tasks. Knowledge is sequenced and mapped in a coherent format so that pupils make meaningful connections.
Our Big Ideas for KS2 are illustrated below.
The expectation is that, by the end of primary school, children will know and understand these key elements of ‘Working as a Linguist’ to give them a solid foundation to enter the Languages Curriculum at KS3.
Implementation
Implementation
At Cavell, we teach French in KS2 and follow the Language Angels scheme of work, which is in line with the National Curriculum. Our Essential Learning Objectives for French are:
To read fluently
To write imaginatively
To speak confidently
To understand the culture of the countries in which the language is spoken
Impact
Impact
As a school, we regularly review the impact of our curriculum through Curriculum Quality Reviews. These include capturing pupil and teacher voice; any written evidence produced by pupils or 'post-it' notes about children's responses; audio/video/ digital evidence of role play or activities; photographic evidence and displays.
The impact is assessed against our intent and supports further curriculum development.
To further your learning or interest in French, try these links to games, quizzes and videos. Click on the picture to access.
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