Goat Lees French Curriculum

Intent, Implementation, Impact - Modern foreign languages

Intent 

At Goat Lees Primary School, we have chosen to learn French as our foreign language. In Ashford, we are very close to several key transport links to France and many of our pupils and their families visit this neighbouring foreign country in their holidays. Learning a foreign language can improve children’s listening skills, concentration and long-term memory and it will help them to be intrigued and more tolerant towards different countries and cultures around the world.  

The intent of French teaching and learning at Goat Lees is: 

• To support pupils to leave Goat Lees being able to recognise some key French phrases and basic conversational skills.  
• To ensure that our pupils are confident and happy to continue to learn and practise French speaking and listening, as well as other foreign languages in the future. 
• To allow children to learn about French Geography, culture and traditions to help them to gain a greater understanding and appreciation of this nearby country.  

Implementation 

• In Key Stage 2, children in each class will learn from a carefully planned French curriculum using Language Angels, which has been designed to offer a broad range of topics and skills for our learners to discover.  
• The curriculum focuses on four main areas for our learners to progress in: 

Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing in French.  

• The school uses Language Angels as a basis for our French curriculum as this offers clear lessons and activities for each topic, and it allows non-specialist teachers to successfully teach clear and memorable French lessons.  
• Class teachers may use resources from other websites and apps so that they can encourage all learners to progress in their skills and knowledge and if they feel they can find a resource that is better suited to their class.  
• Our teachers will use a mixture of reading, listening and repeating to take on new vocabulary, songs and videos to help learners to engage with new vocabulary, and reading and writing activities to help embed their new skills and knowledge.  
• In each year group, children will have opportunities to revisit and retrieve their prior knowledge so that vocabulary can build-up and progress from each child’s knowledge and understanding.  
• Teaching staff may use other opportunities to practise new French skills and knowledge such as the class register so that French learning is part of the life of the school, not just during French lessons.  

Impact 

Our French curriculum ensures that our children will: 

• Improve in their knowledge of key French vocabulary.  
• Be more confident when learning new French vocabulary and vocabulary in other foreign languages in the future.  
• Be able to use new French vocabulary with increasing confidence as they progress through their primary languages learning.  
• Use their French vocabulary in their wider lives throughout the school, such as in other lessons and at home as well.  
• Enjoy French learning throughout the school and in different settings and other curriculum subjects too, so that they are confident and enthusiastic language learners and users in their lives.

If you would like to see our curriculum map, please click here.

If you would like to see our progression in skills document, please click here.