Intent

At Broadwindsor School it is our intent at all children should work as young Linguists to become confident in speaking, writing and listening growing in understanding across a range of contexts that they would encounter if travelling to France and other French speaking countries meeting native speakers. We aim to introduce the children to a diverse selection of famous people and culture from the Francophone world.

We aim to help children grow into curious, confident and reflective language learners and to provide them with a foundation that will equip them for further language studies at secondary school.

Implementation

French at Broadwindsor is taught for an hour a week as a half-termly block (alternating with other subjects e.g. Music), often making links to other curriculum areas, the children’s own experiences and other opportunities to enrich and extend our pupils’ learning.

There is a clear progression of skills and techniques to be covered starting in the through Key Stage Two where the subject is statutory. However, we do provide opportunities for Early Years and KS1 pupils to be exposed to other languages and learn for example basic greetings as part of register routines. To deliver this progression we have planned a long term plan on a variety of topics and situations from the Planit French programme which allows children to revisit and strengthen their vocabulary additionally supported with Languagenut software to practise their reading, writing, speaking and listening skills.

Impact

We see the impact of our ambitious, knowledge rich- curriculum through discussions as a staff, regular assessment of the children’s work and discussions with pupils listening to pupil voice.