French

At Rivers Primary Academy, we are linguists!

We want our pupils to love French and we inspire them to aspire to be interpreters, translators or to work abroad. We want our pupils to remember their French learning, communicate clearly and embrace the language opportunities they are given.

Intent:

Our curriculum develops pupils’ aspirations so that they strive to be the best that they can be. We carefully plan the subject knowledge, skills and vocabulary, coupled with specific Aspire character virtues and learner skills, so that our students have the tools to be successful in learning and in life. Our French curriculum promotes curiosity and a love and thirst for learning another language and cultures. We aim to enrich our pupils' time in our school with memorable experiences. 

Implementation:

French is taught in each year group in key stage 2 weekly. We are currently using the Rising Stars French scheme of work. This ensures children acquire a bank of vocabulary organised around topics. They ensure development is progressive as they build on previous knowledge from units already studied. Resources are added to further enrich the scheme and provide hooks to enable retention. Knowledge organisers identify key knowledge and help pupils with remembering more.  

Impact:

We aim for all of our children to leave Rivers Primary equipped with the French skills and knowledge that will enable them to be ready for the curriculum at KS3 and for life as an adult in the wider world. Cumulative quizzing using questions from the current theme content are created alongside questions aiming to retrieve knowledge from previous learning. Reviews in French include work scrutinies, learning walks, pupil and staff voice. All of this information is gathered and reviewed. It is used to inform further curriculum developments and provision is adapted accordingly.

At Rivers Primary Academy, we Inspire to Aspire!