Modern Foreign Languages

Intent

At Earl Soham Primary School we aim to foster children who are enthusiastic and confident in communicating in another language. We hope to lay a strong foundation of language skills to ensure that children are able to flourish when they reach High School.

Implementation

The national curriculum outlines that by the end of Key Stage 2, pupils should:

• 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 writing in the language studied.

Structure of learning

Each Key Stage 2 class has at least 30 minutes a week allocated to French teaching. Using our Rosenshine principles we aim to revisit and review learning regularly to ensure that it is 

Key Stage 1 

Whilst MFL isn’t a requirement for KS1 pupils, there are some skills that can be practised orally with the children.

Numbers 0 – 20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsEz58BblMY

Colours

Using colouring pencils, shout out a colour, ask children to hold the colour.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzR_d6uJkb8

Days of the week

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiHYehk0tYo

Body parts

Head shoulders, knees and toes song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RJVwMGRiZs

Impact

Children leave the school as confident French speakers. The subject is given a high profile within the school, ensuring that time and resources are allocated to it. High Schools have fed back that Earl Soham pupils are given a strong foundation of language skills which ensure future success.