Modern Foreign Languages – French

Subject Key Objective Progression & Development by Year Groups

The following is a guide to help you understand your child’s progression through school.

All lessons are differentiated. This means teachers plan activities that enable the objective to be learned by all children including those who will find the objective challenging, those children who with hard work will secure good progress and those children who can tackle extra stretch and challenge in this subject.

Intent, Implementation and Impact

The curriculum is designed with our pupils and the Swinemoor community in mind.

It enables children to access and enhance their understanding of their home, their town and the wider community, developing their cultural capital and giving them opportunities and choices about their future and their impact as they progress through their school career and beyond.

This will help them become successful members of modern British society, preparing them for the challenges and opportunities.

  • Intent

French – Speaking

  • Curriculum lead: Mrs Mansell

  • Curriculum Statements

KS2: “Pupils should be taught to speak in sentences… and (increasingly) engage in conversations.”

  • Related Vocabulary

KS2:

Repetition (T2)
Pronunciation (T3)
Articulation (T3)

  • Cultural Capital

Children may demonstrate knowledge of some key points in French history, as well as modern French culture, buildings, landmarks, the arts and food.

They may be able to talk about different traditions in France, and how they differ to British traditions.

They may be able to name other French speaking countries, and demonstrate some understanding of the opportunities available when able to speak and read a modern foreign language.

  • School aims

  • Achieve beyond expectations
  • Be proud of our community, our school, our achievements and our peers
  • Compete, with the belief that we have every chance of success
  • Develop a culture where we take appropriate risk
  • Enable people to work together, in order to achieve more than we could on our own

  • British Values

  • Democracy

  • Rule of law

  • Individual liberty

  • Mutual respect

  • Tolerance of different faiths & beliefs

  • Implementation

What will be made, produced, performed, or published?

Children will develop their speaking, listening and writing skills throughout their KS2 career.

They will engage in regular speaking activities culminating each half term in a morning of spoken and written French.

  • Sequencing

  • Year 3: Pupils can communicate with others using simple words, phrases and short sentences.
  • Year 4: Pupils can communicate by asking and answering a wider range of questions.

  • Year 5: Pupils can join in a short conversation.

  • Year 6: Pupils can converse briefly without prompts.

  • Impact

What knowledge will the children have embedded?

Children will be able to speak with increasing confidence and complexity in French. Through careful listening and repetition, their pronunciation and articulation will improve. The children will recall French speaking countries. They will identify some aspects of French traditional culture and important dates in the French calendar.

What retention may be demonstrated?

Here are some example questions that may be used to assess children’s understanding.

KS2: Can you remember some words associated with your current French topic? Can you put some of these words into a sentence?

Modern Foreign Languages – French Speaking

Year 3
Pupils can communicate with others using simple words, phrases and short sentences.

Year 4
Pupils can communicate by asking and answering a wider range of questions.

Year 5
Pupils can join in a short conversation.

Year 6
Pupils can converse briefly without prompts.

This collection of short films and resources will help you understand your child’s progression through school.

The curriculum film resource has been broken down by subject area initially and then by topic area.

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