Modern Foreign Languages (MfL)
Intent
At Little Hill School, we offer a curriculum, which foster pupils’ curiosity and deepen their understanding of the world. The teaching should enable pupils to express their ideas and thoughts in another language and to understand and respond to its speakers, both in speech and in writing. It should also provide opportunities for them to communicate for practical purposes, to learn new ways of thinking and read great literature in the original language. Language teaching should provide the foundation for learning further languages, equipping pupils to study and work in other countries.
Aims
We aim to ensure that all pupils:
- 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.
Implementation
As a school, we follow the Salut programme of study and key skills are taught through a range of selected storybooks.
In Key Stage 2, children will learn:
Year 3
- Greetings
- My Town and My Home
- Describing People
- Playtime
- Food
- Animals
Year 4
- The Body
- At School
- Describing People
- Sports
- My Town
Year 5
- Greetings and On Holiday
- Seasons
- Food and Eating Out
- Family
- In France
Year 6
- Weekend with Friends
- Hobbies and Jobs
- Eating Out
- Actions
- Environment and Seasons
- The future