French

Intent

Why is French important at Kilsby?

At Kilsby, we focus on developing the whole child, and support the children to ‘live life in all its fullness’ (John 10:10).

PlanIt French offers a carefully planned sequence of lessons, ensuring progressive coverage of the skills required by the national curriculum, which introduces the culture of French speaking countries and communities. These link with our Christian core values of equality and respect.

PlanIt French enables children to express their ideas and thoughts in French and provides opportunities to interact and communicate with others both in speech and in writing. Whilst also exposing children to authentic French and enabling them to regularly listen to native speakers in different contexts.

Through French, we learn to express ourselves and aim to help children to grow into curious, confident and reflective language learners, which works with our school vision, that underpins all at Kilsby to make our pupils responsible individuals who exemplify our Christian value of achievement.

Implementation

When is French taught?

Lessons are sequenced thematic units, so that prior learning is considered and opportunities for revision of language and grammar are built in.

How is French taught?

French is taught through a specified combination of speech and writing, which are facilitated through a wider variety of resource.

What do we learn in French?

How do we assess and monitor French?

Formative assessment in French occurs throughout the learning process, through dialogue and conversation with the children as they are working. At Kilsby, we want to promote the whole child and value our children’s creative and individual responses in the subject; therefore, we should give open-ended feedback and use effective questioning techniques.

For their summative assessment, teachers refer to the success criteria for each year group for PlanIt French.