Mount Pleasant Primary School

Languages

Curriculum Subject Lead - Mrs K Archer

Bonjour!

At Mount Pleasant we aim to ignite a passion for learning new skills by learning another language. We plan and deliver our languages curriculum with a clear progression of skills and knowledge across Key Stage 2 using the Rigolo scheme. Children are encouraged to build on their current knowledge of the English language to support them in this. We support our children’s resilience and allow them to build confidence to learn something new. Embedding these languages skills to encourages children to understanding of the relationship between different languages. 

We offer an exciting curriculum that allows children to explore not only a different language, but different cultures, by exposing them to foods, clothes and celebrations of France. Alongside effective teaching and the delivery of French lessons, videos, songs, rhymes and stories are used to promote a fun and engaging attitude towards learning a language. We endeavour to ensure our children enjoy conversing in French!

Through teaching and demonstrating, children use the correct pronunciation when speaking and reading aloud. We support our children’s resilience and allow them to build confidence to learn something new. We believe that our children will foster an interest into learning languages, in turn, supporting them with their future aspirations. We encourage our children’s curiosity through understanding the world around us and promote compassion and respect for others. We hope to encourage our children to become citizens who enjoy communicating confidently with an empathetic understanding of other people and their cultures around the world.

MFL

National Curriculum

The National Curriculum for Languages states that pupils should be taught to:

  • listen attentively to spoken language and show understanding by joining in and responding
  • explore the patterns and sounds of language through songs and rhymes and link the spelling, sound and meaning of words
  • engage in conversations; ask and answer questions; express opinions and respond to those of others; seek clarification and help*
  • speak in sentences, using familiar vocabulary, phrases and basic language structures
  • develop accurate pronunciation and intonation so that others understand when they are reading aloud or using familiar words and phrases*
  • present ideas and information orally to a range of audiences*
  • read carefully and show understanding of words, phrases and simple writing
  • appreciate stories, songs, poems and rhymes in the language
  • broaden their vocabulary and develop their ability to understand new words that are introduced into familiar written material, including through using a dictionary
  • write phrases from memory, and adapt these to create new sentences, to express ideas clearly
  • describe people, places, things and actions orally* and in writing
  • understand basic grammar appropriate to the language being studied, including (where relevant): feminine, masculine and neuter forms and the conjugation of high-frequency verbs; key features and patterns of the language; how to apply these, for instance, to build sentences; and how these differ from or are similar to English

Mount Pleasant MFL Curriculum

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