Scheme: Kapow Primary
Intent:
Our school’s curriculum intent has taken into consideration:
● The ethos, vision, and values that our foundations are built on.
● The specific areas of development from our Self Evaluation Form.
● Relevant national strategies.
● What we want our children to learn.
Our French scheme of work aims to instil a love of language learning and an awareness of other cultures. We want our pupils to develop the confidence to communicate in French for practical purposes, using both written and spoken French. Through our scheme of work, we aim to give pupils a foundation for language learning that encourages and enables them to apply their skills to learning further languages, developing a strong understanding of the English language, facilitating future study and opening opportunities to study and work in other countries in the future. Our French scheme of work supports pupils to meet the National curriculum end of Key stage 2 attainment targets.
Implementation:
The French scheme of work is designed with three knowledge strands that run throughout our units with knowledge building cumulatively. These are:
● Phonics
● Vocabulary
● Grammar
This knowledge can then be applied within our skills strands, which also run throughout each unit in the scheme:
● Language comprehension (Listening and reading)
● Language production (Speaking and writing)
French is timetabled in half term blocks by KS2 class teachers. French is taught in blocks every half term 2 of autumn, spring and summer terms. The rationale behind blocking is due to mixed age classes and coverage over our two year cycle (cycle A and cycle B).
Lessons incorporate a range of teaching strategies from independent tasks, paired and group work including role-play, language games and language detective work. Our scheme of work focuses on developing what we term ‘language detective skills’ and developing an understanding of French grammar, and key vocabulary rather than on committing to memory vast amounts of French vocabulary. Pronunciation is emphasised early on using our Mouth mechanics videos to support pupils with phoneme pronunciation in French. Teachers plan for adaptive learning for every lesson to ensure that lessons can be accessed and enjoyed by all. During the academic year, the children have opportunities to take part in our whole school language days.
Impact:
After the implementation of French, pupils should leave Salhouse equipped with a range of language-learning skills to enable them to study French, or any other language, with confidence at Key Stage 3. The majority of our children move on to Broadland High Academy where they will be taught three hours per week of French.
The impact of the scheme can be monitored continuously through both formative and summative assessment. Each lesson includes guidance to support teachers in assessing pupils against the learning objectives. Kapow have assessment quizzes and knowledge catchers to be completed to aid teacher assessment for pupil’s attainment and progress.
The expected impact of following the French scheme of work is that children will:
➔ Be able to engage in purposeful dialogue in practical situations (e.g., ordering in a cafe, following directions) and express an opinion.
➔ Make increasingly accurate attempts to read unfamiliar words, phrases, and short texts.
➔ Speak and read aloud with confidence and accuracy in pronunciation.
➔ Demonstrate understanding of spoken language by listening and responding
appropriately.
➔ Use a bilingual dictionary to support their language learning.
➔ Be able to identify word classes in a sentence and apply grammatical rules they have learnt.
➔ Have developed an awareness of cognates and near-cognates and be able to use them to tackle unfamiliar words in French, English, and other languages.
➔ Be able to construct short texts on familiar topics.
➔ Meet the end of Key Stage 2 stage expectations outlined in the National curriculum for Languages.
