At Cockwood School all pupils are taught French.
Our MFL curriculum is designed to progressively develop skills in French, through a child centred and predominantly activity-based approach. Our aim is to ensure that the children are speaking with increased confidence and fluency. Teachers use a wide range of strategies to support different learning styles and ensure inclusion for all.
We aim to make learning a language fun. With this in mind, the children in KS1 become familiar with hearing, responding and repeating the language through fun activities like songs, games, and interactive activities. As children move into Lower KS2 and their confidence and skills grow, children will record their work through pictures, captions and sentences. This is built upon in upper KS2, where children are taught more complex sentence structures through both oral and written activities. Throughout the school there is a focus on building listening skills, with some simple written activities which encourage children to develop their oracy.
Our goal is for children to move to the secondary phase of their education with a set of skills already in place to engage in further language learning.
Through teaching another language we hope to instil and foster a pupil’s curiosity, a sense of enjoyment and fascination of the world around them and deepen their understanding of countries beyond the UK, opening up their knowledge experiences to other cultures and languages. Children will have a respectful view and a greater awareness of a previous unfamiliar culture; therefore linking to the Equality Act and British Fundamental Values.
We hope to help them aspire to be confident communicators and respectful ambassadors of the future, embracing diversity in the local, national and global communities.
