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Autumn Term

Autumn Term 2022

Autumn 1- Self, Family and Friends.

Please see below what each group have been learning.

Year 3

In this topic, children will:

  • Produce basic greetings
  • Ask and answer questions: name, feelings, where you live, age, what colour
  • Produce 1-10 in and out of order and match to digit
  • Produce 6 colours
  • Produce 8 body parts 
  • Recognise word classes and masc/fem articles 
  • Recognise, 'ou,' phoneme 

Year 4

In this topic, children will:

  • Ask and answer personal questions
  • Name colours from memory 
  • Name body parts from memory 
  • Produce sentences orally about eyes and hair (with support) Ask and say how many brothers and sisters you have (from memory)
  • Show understanding of word order.
  • Use personal pronouns and verbs (1st, 2nd and 3rd person singular) in the present tense (avoir)
  • Show understanding of agreement of adjectives. 
  • Recognise and produce the phonemes - ai, eu, é, ( silent x,s) 

Year 5

In this topic, children will:

  • Read, ask and answer questions in first and third person
  • Produce parts of the body 
  • Produce family members and descriptions 
  • Use numbers 1-69, all calculations 
  • Produce sentences about pain in parts of the body
  • Read / write and show understanding of complex sentences which include family/ body vocabulary 
  • Recognise the different articles for nouns and when to use them [le, la, les, l'] 
  • Recognise and produce the phoneme-'au' 

Year 6

In this topic, children will:

  • Ask and answer personal questions
  • Name colours from memory 
  • Name body parts from memory 
  • Produce sentences orally about eyes and hair (with support) Ask and say how many brothers and sisters you have (from memory)
  • Show understanding of word order.
  • Use personal pronouns and verbs (1st, 2nd and 3rd person singular) in the present tense (avoir)
  • Show understanding of agreement of adjectives. 
  • Recognise and produce the phonemes - ai, eu, é, ( silent x,s) 

Autumn 2 - School Life

Year 3

In this topic, children will:

  • Ask and answer questions: name, others' names, feelings, where you live, age, colour. 
  • Recall 11 colours
  • Respond correctly to instructions
  • Produce classroom objects 
  • The imperative Use of the third person singular/ plural for others' names
  • Use of adverbs Silent letter rules
  • Recognise ’ç' and 'ille' phonemes

In this topic, children will:

  • Ask and answer personal questions
  • Recall simple opinions
  • Ask for and express opinions about school subjects (colours, animals, sports and fruits
  • Use personal pronouns and verbs (1 st, 2nd and 3rd person singular) in the present tense (aimer, adorer, détester, étudier, être)
  • Gender of nouns.Use of connectives to produce longer sentences. 1 st, 2 nd + 3rd person singular of verbs in present tense.
  • Recognise the difference in gender of school subjects
  • Use genders correctly for school subjects.
  • Recognise and produce the phonemes; in, an, ai, qu, eu, i

Year 5

In this topic, children will:

  • Ask/ answer/ read more questions including the time and clothing worn 
  • Recall colours 
  • Produce complex sentences involving seasons / colours
  • Recall the word order and agreement of colour adjectives
  • Write season/ time/ colour descriptions from memory
  • Recall 1-69 in and out of order
  • First, second and third person present tense of verb 'porter'
  • Third person singular and plural of, 'être.'
  • Recall the phoneme, 'on'

Year 6

In this topic, children will:

  • Talk in length about oneself
  • Listen to and show understanding of a paragraph containing personal information in 1st person
  • Write a paragraph about oneself.
  • Recognise and say the time (Y4 autumn 2) [all points]
  • Produce sentences about likes and preferences of school subjects (Y4 autumn 2) and say why (Y4/Y5 Summer 1) 
  • Analogue time 
  • Recognise 1-100 in written words
  • First person singular of common verbs, including reflexive (grammar)
  • Recognise in, oi, qu, eu, ui, un, I, an, en (phonics)