Consultations
Stakeholder consultation on a proposal for GAET to join with DAT has now closed.

The GAET board thanks all stakeholders for their submissions to the consultation. All questions which have been submitted will be responded to either individually or as part of FAQ. You are thanked for your patience whilst we undertake the responses to all consultation submissions. We will update you further in due course.
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Modern Foreign Languages

We teach Modern Foreign Languages because we believe that learning languages broadens children’s horizons and deepens their understanding of the world and other people and can inspire new ways of thinking. Our planned curriculum aims to give our children a foundation for further learning in children’s futures, both at secondary school and beyond, acting as a gateway to varied cultures, opportunities and relationships. By introducing children to additional languages, we aim to help children to further appreciate the vocabulary and grammar of the languages (including English) that they are already learning. With a strong emphasis on speaking and listening in our lessons, we aim to develop an appreciation of the importance of listening for understanding.

Children in the Early Years will learn to greet each other in each other’s home languages. As children move into Key Stage One, we will build on this by introducing European and other modern languages for simple counting and greetings and other simple phrases, where appropriate relating to topics e.g. Chinese New Year.

FRENCH

Curriculum Aims and Intent

The overarching aim of the KS2 French curriculum is to foster a lifelong interest in language learning by introducing pupils to the basic elements of a new language in an engaging, accessible, and systematic way. According to the National Curriculum framework, the core objectives are to enable pupils to:

  • Understand and respond to spoken and written language from a variety of sources.
  • Speak with increasing confidence, fluency, and spontaneity, finding ways of communicating what they want to say.
  • Improve the accuracy of their pronunciation and intonation.
  • Write at varying length, using the variety of grammatical structures they have learned.
  • Discover and develop an appreciation of the culture of French-speaking countries.

French teaching in KS2 aims to prepare pupils not only for further language study at KS3 and beyond but also to equip them with a wider global awareness, developing cultural curiosity and open-mindedness through exposure to other ways of life.

Content and Progression

The French curriculum at KS2 is progressive, building upon knowledge cumulatively from Year 3 through to Year 6. Please find our French Curriculum and Progression documents below.