French
French at Harby Church of England Primary School
Intent
We teach our children Modern Foreign Languages, which in our school is focussed mainly on French, to generate a fascination for words and how language works, a wider curiosity about the peoples and cultures of Modern Foreign Language-speaking countries and the foundational knowledge to support confident communication in another language.
French at Harby Church of England Primary School
Intent
We teach our children Modern Foreign Languages, which in our school is focussed mainly on French, to generate a fascination for words and how language works, a wider curiosity about the peoples and cultures of Modern Foreign Language-speaking countries and the foundational knowledge to support confident communication in another language.
Subject Leader Mrs Jo Hodder
Our French curriculum
We teach three core strands of essential knowledge:
- Phonics – the key components of the sound-writing relationship
- Vocabulary – a set of the most frequently used words
- Grammar – the essential building blocks required to create simple sentences independently (including gender of nouns, singular and plural forms, adjectives (place and agreement), and the conjugation of key verbs)
- Develop linguistic and communicative competence
- Extend their knowledge of how language works
- Explore similarities and differences between the language we are studying, any heritage languages our children have, and English
