French

"One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way.’ - Frank Smith, Canadian psycholinguist

 

French Subject Progression Framework

At Bishop Perrin School we encourage children to develop their language and communication skills through drama and role play, songs and rhymes (comptines); speaking and listening, reading and writing. Learning a foreign language is such an important part of our curriculum. It is a skill for life and gives access to cross-curricular learning: for example, the recital of our daily prayers in a different language, the use of French number knowledge to solve problems, the understanding of grammatical terminology and the etymology of words linked to English, acting out a scene from a real-life situation and physical co-ordination through miming.

At Bishop Perrin School we aim to develop not only our children’s oral aspects of a language, but also their written knowledge using various resources and interactive software. We also want our children to write in sentences about various topics by the end of KS2. In the upper key stages, children are assessed throughout the year, in their oral and written work.

Particular importance is given to the following skills: listening and speaking to start with, then reading and writing in the later years. Pupils have the opportunity to take part in French cultural events in school, deepening their intercultural understanding, to enhance our pupils’ understanding of a different culture we have established links and correspondence with a French School.