At Calverley CE we aim to instil a love of language learning and an awareness of other cultures. We want pupils to develop the confidence to communicate in French for practical purposes, using both written and spoken French. Through our lessons, we aim to give pupils a foundation for language learning that encourages and enables them to apply their skills to learning further languages, developing a strong understanding of the English language, facilitating future study and opening opportunities to study and work in other countries in the future.
Our French lessons incorporate a range of teaching strategies from independent tasks, paired and group work including role-play, language games and language detective work.
The national curriculum for French 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.
| Year Group/Term | Aut 1 | Aut 2 | Spr 1 | Spr 2 | Sum 1 | Sum 2 |
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| 2 | ||||||
| 3 | French greetings | French adjectives of colour, size and shape | In a French Classroom. | |||
| 4 | Portraits - describing in French | Clothes - getting dressed in France | French weather and the water cycle | |||
| 5 | French monster pets | Space exploration | Shopping in France | French speaking world | ||
| 6 | French sport and the Olympics | In my French house | My town and places |
We started our new French Curriculum in September 2021. Some Year groups are working on different units to the units stated above to ensure a good foundation level of understanding to progress through the curriculum.
French Age Related Expectations
Age Related Expectations for each programme of study have been identified and created