Modern Foreign Languages

MODERN FOREIGN LANGUAGES

Intent
Our Modern Foreign Languages curriculum at North Tawton should foster children's curiosity and deepen their understanding of the world. The teaching should enable children to express their ideas and thoughts in another language and to understand and respond to its speakers, both in speech and in writing. It should also provide opportunities for them to communicate for practical purposes, learn new ways of thinking and explore literature of a different language. It is the intention that all children in KS2 will access quality teaching of French by their class teacher in order to adequately prepare them for KS3. KS1 children will be introduced to MFL through exploring other languages informally when appropriate.

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 an appreciation of a range of writing in the language studied.

OUR CURRICULUM

FRENCH	AUTUMN 2020	SPRING 2021	SUMMER 2021
YEAR 3	Greetings Colour, Size and Shape	Number Age French Classroom	French Transport French Life Science and Animals
YEAR 4	Portraits Clothes	Numbers Calendar Birthday French Weather Water Cycle	French Music Eurovision Song Contest
YEAR 5	Monster Pets Space Explorers	Shopping French Speaking World	A French Week in a Life Meet my French Family
YEAR 6	Sport and Olympics	Football Champions Life in my French Home	Planning a holiday in France A visit to a town in France