At Cloverlea, we believe that learning a foreign language provides an opening to other cultures. A high-quality languages education should foster pupils’ curiosity and deepen their understanding of the world. The teaching should enable pupils to express their ideas and thoughts in another language and to understand and respond to its speakers, both in speech and in writing. It should also provide opportunities for them to communicate for practical purposes, learn new ways of thinking and read great literature in the original language. Language teaching should provide the foundation for learning further languages, equipping pupils to study and work in other countries (National Curriculum 2014).
The national curriculum for languages aims to ensure that all pupils:
In Key Stage 1, the teaching of a modern foreign language is not a requirement; however, at Cloverlea, we introduce the children to French and the language assistant covers basic language with them using a book or a finger rhyme as a focus.
Pupils should be taught to:
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Autumn Term |
Spring Term |
Summer Term |
Year 1 |
Trafford book project-language based around a book or finger rhyme
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Trafford book project-language based around a book or finger rhyme |
Trafford book project-language based around a book or finger rhyme |
Year 2 |
Trafford book project-language based around a book or finger rhyme
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Trafford book project-language based around a book or finger rhyme |
Trafford book project-language based around a book or finger rhyme |
Year 3 |
Greetings, classroom phrases, colours, Christmas vocabulary, numbers 1 to 6 The children listen to and sing French songs and perform finger rhymes. They are introduced to some French children’s books. |
Numbers 7 to 10, classroom objects, social conventions: please and thank you The children listen to and sing French songs and perform finger rhymes. They continue to explore French children’s books. |
Clothes, days of the week, numbers 11-30, revision of previous vocabulary. The children listen to and sing French songs and perform finger rhymes. They continue to explore French children’s books. |
Year 4 |
Greetings, classroom vocabulary and phrases, animals, colours, masculine and feminine The children listen to and sing French songs and perform finger rhymes. They continue to explore French children’s books. |
Months of the year, revision of vocabulary The children listen to and sing French songs and perform finger rhymes. They continue to explore French children’s books. |
Clothes, French cities and towns, wishing someone Happy Birthday The children listen to and sing French songs and perform finger rhymes. They continue to explore French children’s books. |
Year 5 |
Numbers 31-60, more animals, revision of vocabulary, using adverbs in sentences French songs, finger rhymes and children’s books
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More adverbs, work on telling the time, revision of vocabulary French songs, finger rhymes and children’s books |
Vegetables, likes and dislikes, more work on time and adverbs French songs, finger rhymes and children’s books |
Year 6 |
Time and adverbs, numbers 61-100, revision of vocabulary French songs and children’s books
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Masculine and feminine animals, revision of vocabulary French songs and children’s books |
Adverbs of time and place, verb tenses, revision of vocabulary French songs and children’s books |