MFL (French)

The intention of the Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) curriculum is that all children are taught, in enjoyable and stimulating ways, in order to:

Develop an interest in learning other languages
Develop confidence and creative skills within their target language (French)
Develop curiosity about all languages
Appreciate the diversity of cultures that exist across continents in today’s world – and empathise with the cultural identities of others.
Develop a growing awareness of their own cultural identities and their place within the wider world.
Embed and build upon the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing.
Use these skills to use and apply their French learning in a variety of contexts.
Lay the foundations for future language learning.

Rachel Hawkes scheme is used to deliver French lessons across Key Stage 2 in blocks of 30 minutes. Through adaptive teaching, children acquire banks of vocabulary organised around topics. Development is progressive, as children build on previous knowledge from units already studied.
Children begin by learning how sounds are pronounced in the target language (phonics) and are encouraged to discuss similarities and differences that they notice with their own language. As they become more confident in the pronunciation of words, spelling is examined more closely and comparisons made with their own language. Children are encouraged to discuss the similarities and differences, and anything they find surprising or puzzling.
Pictures, videos, singing activities, games and art are used to peak children's curiosity and excitement for language learning.
A range of formative and summative assessment strategies are used to assess children's knowledge and understanding of both vocabulary and grammatical structures.
Children are exposed to a wide range of authentic texts including stories, posters and leaflets, menus and timetables. They are encouraged to draw upon their knowledge and understanding of both vocabulary and grammatical structures to identify key information.

Children will show curiosity about different languages and cultures, and have empathy towards those with beliefs, traditions and languages that differ from their own.
Children will show curiosity about why words and sentences are structured the way they are, and how this differs from their own language.
Children will be confident linguists and acquire transferrable skills, so that they are ready to learn any language they may encounter in the next stage of their learning and the wider world.
Children will be able to formulate whole sentences both orally and within their written work. They are ready for the challenges at secondary school level where they will be required to write at greater length within their target language.
Children will be able to access work in line with the end point assessments, and they are prepared for future learning as linguists at secondary school by the time they leave primary school.

Curriculum-Gallery (ID 1060)

The Disraeli School