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Meadowdale Primary School

 

Modern Foreign Languages

At Meadowdale French is taught by a specialist teacher to all of our Key Stage 2 children in blocks across the year. Key Stage 1 children have the opportunity to take part in a fun after school club to introduce them to learning a new language. 

We use a range of activities to support children’s learning including games, songs, stories, puppets and role play, and actions and visual cues to reinforce memory of new vocabulary. Our teaching covers a range of topics including greetings, counting, colours, celebrations, clothes, pets and family.

We build children’s confidence to say, read and write words, phrases and sentences, to ask and answer questions and give opinions. Lessons are reflective, encouraging children to draw on their previous language experience and skills to embed new learning.

We want to foster a curiosity and enthusiasm for language learning and the opportunity to develop an understanding of other countries and cultures.

We are delighted that our school has a link with a partner school in Strasbourg as this means that each child from Year 4 onwards has a pen friend who they can write to and exchange information with about school, hobbies, birthdays etc. This is a great ‘real life’ opportunity to use the French we have been learning.

Curriculum Overview

 

AUTUMN 1

AUTUMN 2

SPRING 1

SPRING 2

SUMMER  1

SUMMER 2

Year 3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finger rhymes and stories

Greetings

Instructions

Name and age

How you are feeling

Counting to 10

 

Colours

Alphabetical order

Counting to 20

Please and thank you

Where is France?

Year 4

 

 

 

 

More finger rhymes and stories.

Begin to use a bilingual dictionary.

 

 

Revise counting to 31

Days of the week

Months

The date and birthdays

Pets: masculine/ feminine nouns, plurals

 

Brothers and sisters

Size adjectives

Penfriend letter exchange

Focus on Strasbourg and Paris, as capital city

Easter

 

Year 5

 

 

Using a bilingual dictionary.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Clothes, uniform

Adjectival agreement: colours to describe masculine and feminine nouns

Penfriend letter exchange

Focus on Strasbourg

 

Family, revision of pets

Size adjectives

Alphabet

Count to 60

Christmas

 

Year 6

 

 

Using a bilingual dictionary.

School lessons

Time

Opinions: using conjunctions

Penfriend letter exchange

Family

Size adjectives

Subject pronouns

Alphabet

Christmas

 

Sports/hobbies

Verbs

Subject pronouns

Opinions: using Conjunctions  

Penfriend letter exchange

 

 

Food and drink

Ordering in a café: role play presentation

Money

Counting 60-100

Easter

Countries

Where in the world is French spoken?

Holidays

Weather

 

Festivals, including National Day of France

French artists

Penfriend letter exchange

Transition