French

At Arlecdon Primary School, we believe that studying a language in primary school provides children with skills that are essential for modern life. We currently use the Language Angels scheme of work and resources to ensure we offer a relevant, broad, vibrant and ambitious foreign languages curriculum that will inspire and excite our pupils using a wide variety of topics and themes. Our curriculum aims to develop the children’s interest in the wider world and broaden their awareness of cultural differences, whilst promoting the British values of respect and tolerance. All pupils will be expected to achieve their full potential by encouraging high expectations and excellent standards in their foreign language learning – the ultimate aim being that pupils will feel willing and able to continue studying languages beyond key stage 2. To ensure a progressive curriculum we embed key skills needed to access the rest of the academic year in the Autumn Term including phonetical knowledge.

 Our aim is to develop an enthusiastic and positive attitude to other languages and language learning; We hope to encourage a life-long learning of languages among our pupils in order to enhance their understanding of the world and their future economic well-being. We believe that this will aid our pupils to have high aspirations for their future careers as being able to speak a foreign language can be very beneficial and will provide many opportunities. 

It helps children to develop communication skills as well as give them a new and broader perspective on the world, encouraging them to understand their own traditions and those of others. Our intention is to provide children with a love for learning new languages and an appreciation of the differences and nuances of foreign grammatical structures. 

French Whole School 4 year plan (1)