At Little Eaton Primary School, our Modern Foreign Language Curriculum is designed to provide a valuable educational, social and cultural experience for all pupils. It provides excitement, enjoyment and challenge for both children and teachers; helping to generate enthusiastic learners and to develop positive attitudes to language learning throughout life. The natural links between languages and other areas of the curriculum can enrich the overall teaching and learning experience. “Learning a foreign language is a liberation from insularity and provides an opening to other cultures. A high-quality languages education should foster pupils’ curiosity and deepen their understanding of the world. The teaching should enable pupils to express their ideas and thoughts in another language and to understand and respond to its speakers, both in speech and in writing. It should also provide opportunities for them to communicate for practical purposes, learn new ways of thinking and read great literature in the original language. Language teaching should provide the foundation for learning further languages, equipping pupils to study and work in other countries.” National Curriculum

Intentions:

Ensure pupils:

• Understand and responds to spoken and written language from a variety of authentic sources.

• Speak with increasing confidence, fluency and spontaneity.

• Find ways of communicating what they want to say, including through discussion and asking questions, and continually improving the accuracy of their pronunciation and intonation.

• are able to write at varying length, for different purposes and audiences, using the variety of grammatical structures that they have learned.

• Develops an appreciation and enjoyment of a range of writing in the target language.

• Become successful learners who enjoy learning, make rapid and sustained progress and achieve the very best in the target language.

• Are confident individuals who are able to communicate and understand ideas, facts and feelings with fluency and expression.

• Are globally aware and develop cultural capital across the curriculum