"Learning a foreign language is a liberation from insularity and provides an opening to other cultures. A high-quality languages education should foster pupils’ curiosity and deepen their understanding of the world."

National Curriculum, DfE 2014

We use the Kapow French Scheme as the base for our KS2 languages curriculum. Our cyclical curriculum, underpinned by our school vision, mission (RACE: Respect, Aspiration, Community, Enquiring Minds) and values, focuses on the development of our pupils’ language learning skills, which we call language detective skills. Throughout the scheme of work, children will also be developing their Cultural awareness of France and the French-speaking world. These techniques underpin our 5 core curriculum strands below and our pupils revisit these throughout KS2. Each time they revisit an aspect of key vocabulary and grammar, it is with increasing complexity to build on their prior knowledge and develop fluency. Each half term taught unit has a different vocabulary focus, which is highlighted in our curriculum overview. Each unit also has its own knowledge organiser (KO) which pupils have access to throughout the unit and to use at home. French is taught weekly as a discrete lesson within KS2 and then revisited during the week in short bursts to consolidate new learning.

Aims

• To develop children’s experience of language acquisition and encourage curiosity about languages  
• To develop their understanding of what they hear and read, and have an ability to express themselves in speech and writing with increasing confidence  
• To extend their knowledge of how language works and explore differences between French and English 
• To strengthen their sense of identity through learning about the culture in Francophone countries and comparing it with their own.

End Points

• 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.

SJA French Long Term Plan 2024-25

Link to our school French curriculum overview 2024-25.