French
"With languages, you are at home anywhere." Edmund De Waal
French Curriculum Intent
Learning a foreign language is a necessary part of being a member of a multi-cultural society and provides an opening to other cultures. Our intent is that all pupils will develop a genuine interest and positive curiosity about foreign languages, finding them enjoyable and stimulating. Learning a second language will also offer pupils the opportunity to explore relationships between language and identity, develop a deeper understanding of other cultures and the world around them with a better awareness of self, others and cultural differences. The intention is that they will work towards becoming life-long language learners.
The teaching should enable children to express their ideas and thoughts in French and to understand and respond to its speakers both in speech and in writing.
The national curriculum for languages aims to ensure all pupils:
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To understand and respond to spoken and written language from a variety of sources.
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To speak with increasing confidence, fluency and spontaneity, finding ways of communicating what they want to say, including through discussion and asking questions and continually improving accuracy of their pronunciation and intonation.
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To write a varying length for different purposes and audiences using the variety of grammatical structures they have learnt.
French Curriculum Implementation
St John’s Primary Academy intends to use the Language Angels scheme of work and resources to ensure we offer a relevant, broad, vibrant and ambitious foreign languages curriculum that will inspire and excite our pupils using a wide variety of topics and themes. All pupils will be expected to achieve their full potential by encouraging high expectations and excellent standards in their foreign language learning - the ultimate aim being that pupils will feel willing and able to continue studying languages beyond key stage 2.
The four key language learning skills; listening, speaking, reading and writing will be taught and all necessary grammar will be covered in an age-appropriate way across the primary phase. This will enable pupils to use and apply their learning in a variety of contexts, laying down solid foundations for future language learning and also helping the children improve overall attainment in other subject areas. In addition, the children will be taught how to look up and research language they are unsure of and they will have a bank of reference materials to help them with their spoken and written tasks going forward. This bank of reference materials will develop into a reference library to help pupils recall and build on previous knowledge throughout their primary school language learning journey.