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 writing in the language studied.

Intent

• To deliver a structured MFL curriculum which provides all KS2 pupils with the foundations of French conversational language
• To enthuse and prepare pupils for learning MFL in KS3
• Children to develop their understanding of grapheme-phoneme correspondence
• Appropriate to what they have been taught, children will be able to hold a conversation in French
• Children to understand some French grammatical conventions such as the existence of gender and how word order may differ from English (eg when using adjectives

Implementation

• A clear, structured and comprehensive scheme of work in line with the National Curriculum using La Jolie Ronde Scheme of Work.
• French is taught weekly in each year group.
• A range of work is recorded in books (written, pictures, games, photographs), online (SeeSaw) or practised verally. 
• There is a clear progression of skills and knowledge throughout the KS2 MFL curriculum.
• Pupil Voice assesses attitudes towards the subject.
• Pupils to study the basic geography of France (where it is etc), and French-speaking countries around the world. 

Impact

• Pupils develop a confidence to write, integrating new language into previously learned language
• Pupils are enthused by lessons and prepared for the continued study of French at KS3.
• EYFS and KS1 are occasionally exposed to a different language, delivered in an accessible way (eg stories in assembly).
• Stimulates an awareness of other countries, and French-speaking countries – this demonstrates how language, culture and religion can spread around the world.

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