At Rishton Methodist Primary School, we teach French as our Modern Foreign Language.

Learning a foreign language continues to be a weak feature of education in the UK. At Rishton Methodist we believe there is a need to do something significantly different to address this. Most countries ensure their citizens learn English from an early age. In an increasingly global community, citizens from this country will compete for jobs with people from other countries who can speak English as well as their native language.

Rishton Methodist Primary School offers a relevant, broad, vibrant and ambitious French Curriculum that uses a wide variety of topics and themes designed to engage, inspire and excite our pupils. We have opted to use Kapow.

All Key Stage 2 classes are offered a high-quality French curriculum. It has been designed to progressively develop our pupils’ knowledge and understanding of foreign languages through regularly taught and well-planned weekly lessons. Children will progressively acquire, use and apply a growing bank of vocabulary, language and grammatical knowledge organised around age-appropriate topics and themes, learning to speak, listen, read and write in French.

The Progression Map outlines what each class in each year group will be taught according to a spiralled model of learning, where prior learning is recycled within new topics. This way of learning encourages creativity, collaboration and substantive knowledge of French culture and language.

Units are progressive within themselves as subsequent lessons within a unit build on the language and knowledge taught in previous lessons and year groups. As pupils progress through the lessons in a unit they will build their knowledge and develop the complexity of the language they use.  Pupils’ learning and progression will be assessed formatively and at summative assessment points throughout the academic year. Metacognitive strategies are explicitly employed within pedagogy to ensure knowledge builds over time and pupils therefore know more and remember more.

Pupils will develop confidence and competence in French. As their knowledge grows over time, they will be able to access longer texts and will be encouraged to formulate their own, more personalised responses based on a much wider bank of vocabulary, linguistic structures and grammatical knowledge. They will be able to create longer pieces of spoken and written language and will be encouraged to use a variety of conjunctions, adverbs, adjectives, opinions, and justifications. The information will be recorded and will be monitored for impact. Pupils will also be offered self-assessment grids to ensure they are also aware of their own progress.

Kapow 

As a school we use and follow the MFL scheme of work Kapow. This has ensured a progressive and challenging MFL curriculum which enables children to meet the end of key stage attainment targets outlines within the National Curriculum and the aims of the scheme align with those in the National Curriculum.