French 2024/2025 

Intent

At De Lucy we believe that the learning of a language provides a cultural, educational and social experience for our pupils; the language we currently learn as a school is French. It enables them to develop essential communication skills in speaking and listening, reading and writing in another language. We believe that by learning another language, children develop a broader perspective on the world which encourages them to better understand their own culture and other cultures of the world. Our main emphasis is on building confidence so that children are not afraid to have a go at communicating in another language. It is important that children progress through the skills required by the National Curriculum; it is an expectation that they should learn basic vocabulary and be able to read and write simple sentences by Year 6.

Implementation

We use the Rigolo scheme of work to support the requirements of the National Curriculum. The curriculum is progressive and develops children’s skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing in French through weekly lessons. Children develop their love of language learning and progressively acquire, use and apply a growing bank of vocabulary organised around topics. Details of the topics covered in each year group can be found in the Curriculum map below.

french subject overview final 10 2 25.pdf

 As all children learn at different speeds and have different learning styles, we try to make French lessons as active as possible.

Impact

Children are assessed termly in French following the Rigolo assessment units wherein children undergo a series of texts to assess their listening, speaking and written ability. Our French curriculum ensures that all pupils in KS2 develop the key skills as set out in the national curriculum. We aim that all pupils:

• understand and respond to spoken and written language
• speak with increasing confidence and fluency
• can write at varying length
• develop an appreciation of writing in the language studied

How parents can help

Ask the children to use the vocabulary learnt in school and make it fun – start with the numbers.

The following link has some simple to follow activities: https://www.french-games.net/ 

Subject leader

Mrs Lodge

Page updated 10th February 2025