At Burton Green Primary School, we teach French in our languages lessons and we provide age-appropriate learning opportunities for all children.
Intent
Our aim is 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. We aim to give pupils a foundation for language learning that encourages and enables them to apply their skills to learning further languages.
Implementation
At Burton Green, we use the Kapow scheme to teach French to our children. Pupils are given opportunities to communicate for practical purposes around familiar subjects and routines. Kapow provides balanced opportunities for communication in both spoken and written French, although in Year 3 the focus is on developing oral skills, before incorporating written French in Year 4 and beyond. The scheme is a spiral curriculum, with key skills and vocabulary revisited repeatedly with increasing complexity, allowing pupils to revise and build on their previous learning.
Impact
After the implementation of French, pupils should leave school equipped with a range of language-learning skills to enable them to study French, or any other language, with confidence at Key Stage 3.
The expected impact is that children will:
- Be able to engage in purposeful dialogue in practical situations
- Make increasingly accurate attempts to read unfamiliar words, phrases, and short texts
- Speak and read aloud with confidence and accuracy in pronunciation
- Demonstrate understanding of spoken language by listening and responding appropriately
- Use a bilingual dictionary to support their language learning
