Modern Foreign Languages
- ensure that all pupils understand and respond to spoken and written language from a variety of authentic sources.
- enable pupils to 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.
- teach pupils to write at varying length, for different purposes and audiences, using the variety of grammatical structures they have learnt.
- help pupils discover and develop an appreciation of a range of writing in the language studied.
At St Thomas', all children in Key Stage 2 learn French as part of the New National Curriculum. We greatly value the importance of early language learning and we believe that in today’s international and multicultural society, it is essential that young people develop skills and attitudes that enable them to communicate with, understand and respect other cultures.
We endeavour to use exciting and effective teaching methods and materials to build enthusiasm and motivation in our young learners. A great deal of emphasis is placed on listening and speaking skills and pupils are given the opportunity to learn vocabulary and structures through games, rhymes, chant and song.
The French scheme of work reinforces work covered in other curriculum areas such as mathematics, PE, music and ICT as well as developing specific language learning skills.