Welcome to French at Townfield! 

Bonjour!

‘A high-quality languages education should 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.’ (National Curriculum 2014 – Appendix A)

Townfield provides an encouraging environment in which all children can experience success in learning a new language. French is taught throughout Key Stage Two by specialist French Tutor for thirty minutes each week. We recognise that learning a language helps pupils to develop communication skills, including key skills in speaking, listening, reading and writing and to give a new and broader perspective on the world, encouraging them to understand their own cultures and those of others.

We follow the National Curriculum’s Modern Foreign Language through teaching French as our chosen language to study (see National Curriculum document below). Pupils will have the opportunity to take part in whole days dedicated to leaning about the French culture and its wonderful language. 

The French curriculum is ambitious and designed to give all learners, particularly the most disadvantaged and those with special educational needs, the knowledge and cultural capital they need to succeed in life. Where required, pedagogy is adapted so that all pupils including disadvantaged pupils and those with SEND are on the same knowledge journey towards the same endpoints. 
Our curriculum is carefully weighted with equal priority is given to both knowledge and skills. Clearly defined end points are identified at the end of the unit and at the end of the key stage. Components are carefully sequenced so new knowledge builds on what has been previously taught and leads to the end points. As the children move to the next year group, the specialist teacher then knows where to start

Pupils will 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, write at varying length, for different purposes and audiences, using the variety of grammatical structures that they have learnt and discover and develop an appreciation of a range of writing in the language studied. Knowledge and skills are constantly revisited and refreshed to ensure that they become embedded. To aid understanding subject specific vocabulary is taught explicitly within every lesson.. There are also opportunities for developing reading in French.

Our school follows the School Improvement Liverpool (SIP) which is a live scheme which is continually updated and revised in order to meet with current curriculum standards. The planning ensures that the three main pillars of progressions are clearly identified and taught explicitly. These pillars include vocabulary, phonics and grammar. A range of teaching methods are implemented to ensure that the children are developing their linguistic skills through listening, speaking, reading and writing in preparation for Key Stage Three. Activities consist of: actions; rhymes; stories; songs; drama; video clips; dictionary work, language detective tasks; and many more creative ways to extend, embed and combine language skills. Review and retrieval is a key part of every lesson. Quick quizzes and knowledge organisers are used to support this

Pupils come from a mixed urban area of Wirral. The children also have the opportunity to discover an entirely new and exciting culture. To enhance pupil’s capital culture they will study French poets, authors, artists, musicians, food, towns and cities.  Our core values; resilience, respect and responsibility are continually developed through all French learning experiences. Where appropriate, children are encouraged to make links with other areas of the curriculum.

Trés bien! 

For further information on our curriculum intent, implementation and impact, please see our curriculum page. 

Please find below a copy of our Curriculum Overview for French.

Please see below the End Point documents for French.