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MFL

Intent:

At Whittingham C of E Primary, the intention of our MFL curriculum is designed to develop an interest in and thirst for learning world languages. We aim to introduce the learning of the French and Spanish language and the understanding of other cultures in enjoyable and stimulating ways. We hope to embed the essential skills of listening, reading, speaking and writing. We aim to build the children’s ‘culture capital’ so that they are aware of similarities and differences between cultures. It is our aim to lay the foundations for future languages.

Whilst ensuring we are covering skills from the National Curriculum we strive to stimulate and encourage children’s curiosity to develop their awareness of world cultures.

We aim to develop their language skills through conversation ans will ensure the children have the opportunity to use and develop these skills throughout their lessons. 

 

Implementation:

We will structure lessons so that prior learning and revision of key skills are continuously built upon.

 

Impact:

We want children to develop a love of languages and begin to converse using their skills.

We will measure the impact of learning through assessing their development of key skills.

 

During lockdown as part of home learning we introduced Duolingo to our pupils. This has been re-introduced during January 2023.
Children in Classes 1,2 and 3 have access to our French extra curricular duolingo club and if they sign up they can learn from home.
Children in Class 2 and 3 have also the opportunity to work on the Spanish language during a weekly lunch club.