French
Intent – Our intent at Parkdale is to ensure that children learn, apply and become more fluent in French. We want our children to thoroughly enjoy this experience and to learn about the French culture. It is our intention to ensure that by the end of our children’s primary education, they have acquired an understanding of both spoken and written French, confidence to speak in French with others and know how important other languages can be in their future.
Implementation – We teach French as our Modern Foreign Language in KS2. It is taught in a whole-class setting, using Language Angels scheme of work. The lessons are designed to motivate children from the first moment and have clear, achievable objectives and incorporate creative activities for different learning styles. French lessons provide a variety of sources to model the language, use games, stories and songs to maximise enjoyment and make as many connections to real life situations as possible. Each lesson, children build on the skills that they have already learnt and develop new ones through a range of fun, exciting and engaging activities.
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.
French and Modern Foreign Languages Notices
Nei Hou!
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Celebrating Languages
We had a wonderful day celebrating International Day of Languages! At our school we speak so many different languages and we celebrated our multicultural, multi linguistic community. Why not so your child how they can answer the register? We love to say hello in all...
European Day Of Languages
Monday 26th September is European Day of Languages and at Parkdale we will be celebrating all of the languages (not just European) that our children speak and hear at home! We are so proud to be a multicultural, multilingual school and can’t wait to share this day...
French and Modern Foreign Languages
French Documents & Resources
Curriculum Information
French on a page
Subject Leader Reviews
French Progression of Knowledge
Useful Links
KS2 BBC Bitesize French
Try out some of your language skills!
Modern Foreign Languages
At Parkdale we explore and celebrate a Language of the Month. Our intent is to inspire our younger children to celebrate different cultures and develop early foreign language skills and awareness. We are especially proud of our children with EAL at Parkdale; they are supported to be bilingual and value their first language. Our Language of the Month scheme encompasses languages spoken in our community, celebrating our multicultural society. Most importantly our Language of the Month scheme is an opportunity for our bilingual children to be our teachers and experts. Recordings of their voices are used to demonstrate pronunciation and shared with all of our children.
In each language we follow a progression from Early Years to Year 2, of key language and vocabulary. This is all dual coded, and recorded by a native speaker. We also listen to music, watch television shows and listen to stories in the language. We look at who speaks the language, where it originated and find out fun facts about the language and associated culture.
If you have any language skills to share please let Mrs Rippon know!
MFL Notices
Bastille Day
14th of July is Bastille Day. France's Independence Day. Year 6 have been learning about the French Revolution and the events that led up to the storming of the Bastille. We tasted baguette and pains au chocolat. We researched and created our own presentations...
Nei Hou!
Nei Hou! In November our Language of the Month is Cantonese. We are so excited to share and learn a language that is the first language of many of our students. I would like to extend a personal thank you to two kind families in Reception who have helped make our...
Languages we speak…
In Y6, we’ve been sharing the many languages which we speak. We’ve shared these videos on our displays in school and you can listen to one here: https://youtu.be/MahcgTqkVYM
Modern Foreign Languages Documents and Resources
Curriculum Information
This document shows the progression of language skills and vocabulary that we aim to support our children to develop.
Languages of the Month Overview
Useful links
Spanish lesson examples
Spanish story links
Listen to some stories, sing some songs or watch some Spanish children’s tv shows.
Stories :
Spanish Songs
Spanish Television
Example French lesson
French Songs
French Children’s Shows and Stories