Overview

Our French curriculum provides a progressive and structured language-learning experience for pupils in Key Stage 2 (Years 3–6). Using the Primary French Project, lessons are designed to be interactive and engaging, incorporating games, songs, stories, and digital resources.

Pupils are given regular opportunities to listen to native French speakers, helping them to develop accurate pronunciation and strong listening skills. Learning is carefully sequenced so that pupils build on prior knowledge and develop confidence over time across the four key skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing.

Aims

In line with the National Curriculum for Languages at Key Stage 2, our teaching of French aims to ensure that all pupils:

• Understand and respond to spoken and written language from a variety of sources
• Speak with increasing confidence, fluency, and spontaneity
• Can express ideas and ask/answer questions in French
• Read carefully and show understanding of words, phrases, and simple texts
• Write at varying length using familiar vocabulary and basic language structures
• Develop accurate pronunciation and intonation
• Appreciate stories, songs, rhymes, and traditions from French culture

Attainment Targets

By the end of Key Stage 2, pupils are expected to meet the National Curriculum attainment targets for languages. Pupils should be able to:

• Listen attentively and show understanding by joining in and responding appropriately
• Engage in conversations, ask and answer questions, and express opinions
• Speak in sentences, using familiar vocabulary, phrases, and basic language structures
• Read carefully and demonstrate understanding of familiar words and simple written texts
• Write phrases and simple sentences from memory, adapting these to create new sentences
• Describe people, places, and things orally and in writing
• Develop an understanding of basic grammar, including gender, agreement, and simple sentence structure