Languages at Ropsley C of E Primary School

Intent

Here at Ropsley C of E Primary School, our French curriculum embodies our vision of being a caring, happy, and inclusive church school at the heart of our community. We believe that learning a language is not just about communication but about fostering respect, understanding, and appreciation of different cultures, allowing our pupils to develop as global citizens.

Through an innovative, engaging, and inspiring curriculum, we strive to instil a life-long love of language learning, helping children to flourish in a global context. Our French lessons provide opportunities for all pupils to develop their confidence and skills in speaking, listening, reading, and writing, nurturing curiosity and resilience as they explore new ways of thinking and expressing themselves.

Implementation

Here at Ropsley our main MFL teaching is French. French is a widely spoken language and most of our children have the opportunity to further this learning when they move to KS3 into one of our local secondary schools.

We follow the scheme of work provided by Salut! . All staff have had guidance for how to use this scheme and have successfully implemented it into their own classrooms. This provides cohesive lesson plans which cover the content of the National Curriculum.

French is taught at KS2 but KS1 learn useful phrases such as ‘hello’, ‘goodbye’, ‘thank you’ and ‘how are you?’. KS1 regularly answer the register in another language.

All children will learn to converse in French after starting with short phrases. Confidence will build through singing songs, practical activities and games.

Children will look at patterns in language, engage in conversations, read carefully – showing an understanding of what has been read, describe people and places and understand the key features of the language; feminine and masculine form.

Impact

We measure the impact of our high quality Languages curriculum by:

• Discussing the pupil’s work with them and asking them about their French lessons.
• Completing work scrutinies.
• Lesson observations
• Staff assessing the levels children are working at and completing a termly data submission – this is then collated and any patterns in children performing below expected will be identified.