Modern Foreign Language - French
- The National Curriculum for languages aims to ensure that all pupils:
- Understand and respond to spoken and written language from a variety of authentic sources.
- 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 the accuracy of their pronunciation and intonation.
- Can write at varying length, for different purposes and audiences, using the variety of grammatical structures that they have learnt.
- Discover and develop and appreciation of a range of writing in the language studied.
Foreign Languages become an integral part of the primary curriculum when children begin to access the Key Stage Two programme of study. However children are exposed to French from Year 1 onward through the allocation of an area of the classroom dedicated to our chosen Foreign Language and exposure to the language around school.
We have recently participated in a pen pal exchange with a school in France which has allowed the children to begin communicating with a native speaker and learn more about where they live and go to school. This project aims to support the children's intercultural understanding, another key concept in the study of Foreign Languages.
