MFL

As a school community with pupils, parents and staff who speak over 40 different languages, we truly value the importance of learning a foreign language. Learning a foreign language is an important skill as the children develop their social skills and cultural awareness. The children often find it interesting to compare their own culture and those of others. Learning another language also prepares the children for secondary school MFL teaching, as well as life beyond.

The aims of MFL teaching are to:

• foster a life-long interest in learning other languages;
• introduce young children to another language in a way that is enjoyable and fun;
• stimulate and encourage children’s curiosity about language;
• encourage children to be aware that language has structure and that the structure differs from one language to another;
• help children develop their awareness of cultural differences in other countries;
• develop children’s speaking and listening skills;
• develop children’s understanding of how they learn a language;
• develop children’s confidence in speaking to others through an inclusive environment;
• lay the foundations for future study in Key Stage 3 and beyond;
• develop sense of global citizenship, through learning about differing cultures.

This is to support the delivery of the National Curriculum aims, which are:

• 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.

At Spring Grove Primary School, Children in Years 3 to 6 learn French. The class teacher will timetable when this lesson may be and should last around 45 minutes. Teachers are encouraged to revise and recap key vocabulary throughout the week to help the children remember key words and phrases. We use the Rigolo scheme to ensure that children from Years 3-6 progress in listening, speaking, reading and writing.

The teachers use a variety of resources in their lessons, for example, books, games, video clips, flashcards and songs.

Each class has their own folder containing hard copies of the Rigolo plans and the majority of documents on this website.

• 45 five-minute language activities
• French language for teachers
• Verbs conjugations used during KS2 (and grammar progression)

French cupboard contents:

(to be added soon including images of practical resources)

Song book titles: to be added soon

Flashcards (to be added soon)