French

Our Intent

We want to foster a love of language learning, equip children with foundational French skills, and prepare them for future language study and global citizenship, emphasizing speaking, listening, reading, and writing.

Implementation

All lessons are planned using Language Angels scheme of work and resources to ensure we offer a relevant, broad, vibrant and ambitious foreign languages curriculum that will inspire and excite our pupils using a wide variety of topics and themes.
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.
Lessons will incorporate challenge sections and desk-based activities that will be offered will three levels of stretch and differentiation. These may be sent home as homework if not completed in class.
Reading and writing activities will be offered in all units. Some extended reading and writing activities are provided so that native speakers can also be catered for.
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.
Extending writing activities are provided 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. These tasks will help to link units together and show that pupils are retaining and recalling the language taught with increased fluency and ease.
We use our ‘recall’ time at the start of lessons to develop the children’s long-term memory on specific Forever Facts.

Strategies for supporting pupils with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities in French lessons:

Opportunities

Speaking and listening is incredibly important in language lessons. We plan to incorporate French food and culture into our new curriculum design.

Impact

As well as each subsequent lesson within a unit being progressive, the teaching type organisation of Language Angels units also directs, drives and guarantees progressive learning and challenge. Units increase in level of challenge, stretch and linguistic and grammatical complexity as pupils move from Early Learning units through Intermediate units and into the most challenging Progressive units. Units in each subsequent level of the teaching type categories require more knowledge and application of skills than the previous teaching type. Activities contain progressively more text (both in English and the foreign language being studied) and lessons will have more content as the children become more confident and ambitious with the foreign language they are learning.

Assessment

In French lessons, we assess children through a mix of self-reflection, group work, and individual assessment. Self-assessment helps them reflect on their progress, while group works allows us to assess their speaking and listening too. Group work fosters teamwork and peer feedback, and individual assessments support teachers and Tas to assess their writing development and understanding. This approach ensures each child grows in confidence and ability. We also use our ‘recall’ quizzes to assess the children’s past weeks, past topics and even past years learning.