St Bridget's Catholic Primary School

Modern Foreign Languages National Curriculum

Intent

The intent is that all pupils will develop an interest and curiosity about foreign languages, finding them enjoyable. Learning a second language will also offer pupils the opportunity to develop an understanding of other cultures and the world around them. 

The four key language learning skills:

• listening
• speaking
• reading
•  writing 

Implementation

Children will progressively acquire, use and apply a growing bank of vocabulary, language skills and grammatical knowledge organised around age-appropriate topics and themes, which will develop building blocks of language into more complex, fluent language. 

• Each unit and lesson will have clearly defined objectives and aims.  
• Each lesson will incorporate interactive whiteboard materials to include ample speaking and listening tasks within a lesson. 
• Units will incorporate written activities that will be offered with three potential levels of stretch and differentiation.  
• Reading and writing activities will be offered in all units. 
• Every unit will include a grammar concept which will increase in complexity as pupils move from Early Language Units, through Intermediate Units and into Progressive Units in future years.  
• Extended writing activities are beginning to be developed in Years 5 and 6 to ensure that pupils are recalling previously learnt language and, by reusing it, will be able to recall it and use it with greater ease and accuracy.  

• Impact

Early Learning Units will start at basic noun and article level and will teach pupils how to formulate short phrases. By the time pupils reach Progressive units  they will be exposed to longer texts and will be encouraged to formulate their own, more personalised responses based on a much wider bank of vocabulary, linguistic structures and grammatical knowledge. They will be able to create longer pieces of spoken and written language and are encouraged to use a variety of conjunctions, adverbs, adjectives, opinions and justifications. 

Pupils will continuously build on their previous knowledge as they progress in their foreign language learning journey through the primary phase. Previous language will be recycled, revised, recalled and consolidated whenever possible and appropriate. 

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Useful Links

Langauge Angels is a great resource to support French. The children have individual login details to access French games and fun learning at home. 

BBC - watch videos to help you learn French