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Spring Term

Spring 1 - The World Around Us.

Year 3

In this topic, children will:

  • Read, ask and answer questions: name, others' names,  feelings, where you live, age, colour, birthday
  • Respond to instructions
  • Recall 1-20 independently.
  • No capital letter for French days/ months
  • Learn the phoneme  ‘r’

Year 4

In this topic, children will:

  • Ask and answer questions on a range of topics
  • Name months of the year from memory
  • Use the gender of nouns correctly. 
  • Use personal pronouns and verbs (3rd person impersonal use) in the present tense
  • Use the following phoneme correctly - ch, oi, au, eau

Year 5

In this topic, children will:

  • Ask and answer more complex familiar questions with a scaffold of responses.
  • Produce multiples of ten to 100 independently in and out of order.
  • Use of the negative: Je vais à/ en… Je ne vais pas. Use of  à/ en…before transport noun. Use of the third person singular and plural.
  • Use the following phoneme correctly - u, en

Year 6

In this topic, children will:

  • Ask and answer more complex familiar questions with a scaffold of responses.
  • Produce multiples of ten to 100 independently in and out of order.
  • Use negative Je vais à/ en… Je ne vais pas.
  • Use of  à/ en…before transport noun. Use of the third person singular and plural
  • Use the following phoneme correctly - u, en

Spring Term 2023

Spring 2 - Animals and Home Environment.

Year 3

In this topic, children will:

  • Ask and answer questions: name, others' names, feelings, where you live, age, birthday, pets, what colour is/ how many?
  • Read and show understanding of familiar, written questions 
  • Recall colours independently
  • Gender of nouns
  • Noun and adjective word order [NB: adjectives are positioned after the noun, except for, ‘petit,’ ‘moyen’ and ‘grand’ which go before the noun]
  • Use the following phoneme correctly - ch

Year 4

In this topic, children will:

  • Ask and answer questions on a range of topics 
  • Recall domestic, zoo and wild animals
  • Recall colours and other adjectives used to describe animals
  • Use numbers 1 – 69 – count forwards, backwards, add and subtract
  • Recognise and use gender of nouns correctly (indefinite-definite articles)
  • Use personal pronouns and verbs (1st,2nd and 3rd person singular) in the present tense (Habiter)
  • Use the following phoneme correctly - ch,on, gn, oi, in

Year 5

In this topic, children will:

  • Ask and answer more complex familiar questions with a scaffold of responses
  • Read and show understanding of written questions and answers 
  • Create, rehearse and present complex sentences about rooms/ bedroom items/ prepositions using a scaffold
  • Listen and show understanding of complex sentences about rooms/ bedroom items/ prepositions
  • Read and show understanding of complex sentences about rooms/ bedroom items/ prepositions  
  • Read and show understanding of multiples of ten to 100  
  • Write multiples of 10 to 100  with a scaffold or from memory  

Year 6

In this topic, children will:

  • Ask/ answer more complex familiar questions with a scaffold of responses
  • Read and show understanding of written questions and answers 
  • Create, rehearse and present complex sentences about rooms/ bedroom items/ prepositions (Y4 Spring 2) using a scaffold
  • Listen and show understanding of complex sentences about rooms/ bedroom items/ prepositions (Y4 Spring 2)
  • Read and show understanding of complex sentences about rooms/ bedroom items/ prepositions (Y4 Spring 2)
  • Read and show understanding of multiples of ten to 100  (Y5 Spring 1) 
  • Write multiples of 10 to 100 with a scaffold or from memory (Y5 Spring 1)  
  • Use first and second person singular possessive pronouns (Y5 Aut 1)
  • Recall the phoneme, ‘in’