French Narrative

The MFL curriculum has been intentionally designed to ensure children develop a substantive knowledge (factual content) alongside the development of disciplinary knowledge (the action taken within a specific subject to gain knowledge) as they learn the fundamental elements of what it is to be a linguist. Our MFL curriculum enables our children to develop their unique potential within a secure and caring environment. Our children are given every opportunity to build their cultural capital and threshold concepts in French to enable them to be successful citizens in our ever-changing world and in their future lives. Our approach to French aims to develop children’s confidence in their own abilities and independence helping them become successful linguists, eager to learn more and build a love for the subject.

Learning a foreign language is a liberation from insularity and provides an opening to other cultures. A high-quality languages education should foster pupils’ curiosity and deepen their understanding of the world. The teaching should enable pupils to express their ideas and thoughts in another language and to understand and respond to its speakers, both in speech and in writing. It should also provide opportunities for them to communicate for practical purposes, learn new ways of thinking and read great literature in the original language. Language teaching should provide the foundation for learning further languages, equipping pupils to study and work in other countries. (National Curriculum 2014)

The curriculum has been intentionally designed to ensure children develop a substantive knowledge (factual content) of vocabulary, grammatical structures and cultural differences.

The following skills are covered as part of the NPAT MFL curriculum: reading, writing, speaking, listening and culture. 

The teaching of French gives all classes access to a very high-quality foreign languages curriculum using the Language Angels scheme of work and resources. 

Children begin learning French in year 3.

The NPAT curriculum and teaching will therefore enable children to begin secondary school being able to hold a conversation by speaking and listening, read key words and phrases and to write sentences with grammatical accuracy.