Our curriculum intent for French learning

Learning a foreign language is a necessary part of being a member of a multi-cultural society and provides an opening to other cultures. At Elham C of E Primary School, the teaching of a high-quality languages education 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 read great literature in the original language. Language teaching should provide the foundation for learning further languages, equipping children to study and work in other countries.

They will develop the skills to:

- 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.

- write at varying lengths, 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.

Through MFL the children will also develop their oracy by building an ever-increasing vocabulary in the target language (French), using a bi-lingual dictionary as an aid to this.