All Saints Church of England Primary School

All Saints Church of EnglandPrimary School

Modern Foreign Language- French

Curriculum intent

Purpose of study from the national curriculum

Learning a foreign language is a liberation from insularity and provides an opening to other cultures. A high-quality languages education should foster pupils’ curiosity and deepen their understanding of the world. The teaching should enable pupils 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 pupils to study and work in other countries. 

1.1    The school curriculum for foreign languages aims to:

  • value and promote a child’s alternative home languages 
  • enable children to learn French from year 3 to year 6, speaking with accuracy and fluency.
  • Understand the culture, food, history and uniqueness of another country.
  • help children understand the use of different languages in real life, valuing and drawing on knowledge and experiences of the local community and global communities.

The national curriculum for foreign 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.

Modern Foreign Languages Policy

French visual overview.pdf

Languages Curriculum