Intent of our Primary Languages Curriculum

R-A-I-S-E

Retention – Application – Inspiration – Success for Everyone

• For all children to develop resilience in language learning as well as enjoyment of it through a variety of exciting activities ensuring coverage against the four key skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing.
• For children to develop a love of language learning and the confidence to communicate in French.
• For children to acquire language learning strategies for memorisation and retrieval as well as for listening, reading and understanding
• For children to develop the skill of how to use a bi-lingual dictionary to decode unfamiliar language.
• For children to able to manipulate language to speak or write sentences creatively using prior knowledge of grammar and key features, with and without a dictionary
• For children to have a sound grasp of the key sounds of the French language and their corresponding graphemes and be able to apply this knowledge when speaking, listening, and reading aloud.
• For children to recognise some of the language patterns of French and how these differ or are like English.
• For children to appreciate and be able to copy the sound of the language at text level through songs, stories and rhymes.
• For children to have a window opened into other countries where French is spoken and to deepen their understanding of cultural differences and similarities
• For children to demonstrate substantial progress in learning French and work towards or meet the targets of the KS2 Programme of Study for Languages.