Modern Foreign Languages

Intent – What do we want children to learn?

At Birchwood Primary School, formal MFL teaching is fully inclusive for every KS2 child. Our aims are to fulfil the requirements of the National Curriculum for MFL and give the EYFS and KS1 children a confidence in learning a new language to ready them for formal learning in KS2 and foster the pupil’s curiosity and deepen their understanding of the world. Our aim is to develop the confidence and competence of each child in the foreign language they are learning.  We will help them develop and demonstrate substantial progress in the 5 key language skills necessary for learning French: Speaking, Listening, Reading, Writing and Grammar.

The National Curriculum for 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 authentic writing in the language studied.

Impact – What will it look like when we have achieved our intent?

There are many ways we can demonstrate the excellent impact our curriculum design has on our pupils. In a nutshell, here are some examples:

• We will make the most of every occasion to include the whole school of fun filled days. For example, whole school Bastille Day.
• Always making French a high profile subject by leading whole school story time assemblies termly alongside all other subjects.
• Making the most of opportunities if children travel to France. Photos of their trip and taking Ted/Teddina with them.