Modern Foreign Languages
Intent
At St Barnabas MAT, we intend to develop an interest in and thirst for learning foreign languages, in turn, developing a further understanding of our own languages. We want our pupils to be enthusiastic, engaged and challenged to develop their ability to use and understand another language. Our MFL Curriculum aims to encourage the awareness of our pupils as to what lies behind another language, enhancing the richness and diversity of different cultures. Our current MFL taught is French or Spanish, however we strive to provide children with opportunities to experience a range of other languages. We hope to embed the essential skills of speaking, listening, reading and writing as well as gaining an insight and understanding of international culture. It is our aim to provide children with safe spaces in which to acquire an understanding of both spoken and written French/Spanish with a confidence to speak in French/Spanish. Through meaningful experiences, high quality resources and sequential learning children will feel ready to progress into KS3 with an awareness of how important other languages can be in their future.
We hope to lay the foundations for future language learning.
Implementation
Our MFL curriculum is designed to develop not only our children’s language skills, but also their love of learning a language. It progressively develops language skills, through regularly taught lessons. This allows the children to acquire new language then use and apply it in a range of different scenarios and topics. Children are encouraged and supported to develop their speaking and listening skills through conversational work, singing activities and games. As their confidence and skill grows, children record their work in booklets, progressively throughout the academic year.
All children in KS2 have regular language lessons of French.
Impact
Our MFL curriculum will ensure all pupils develop key language learning skills set out by the National Curriculum, as well as a love of languages and learning about other cultures.
These are as follows:
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
can write at varying length, for different purposes and audiences, using the variety of grammatical structures that they have learnt
discover and develop an appreciation of a range of writing in the language studied