Starting in Year 3, all children have the opportunity to learn French at Weald Rise Primary School. Every week, children experience exciting lessons delivered by a French specialist teacher, learning the language in a range of different ways including singing songs, chanting rhymes and participating in role play.
In June 2019, a large group of Year 4 and Year 5 pupils travelled to France for the day to practise their speaking and listening skills as well as to experience French culture in reality. Travelling by the shuttle, they enjoyed visiting Boulogne Sur-Mer old town, seeing the largest sea life centre in Europe as well as shopping in the hypermarket near Calais.
| Year | Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
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| 3 |
Getting to know you Greet each other Exchange names Ask how someone is Count to 10 Say how old you are |
All About Me Understand and follow instructions Name parts of the body Identify colours and say what they are wearing
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Family and Friends Identify and introduce family and pets and spell their names Learn the names for places in their own home
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Our School Learn vocabulary of school places and objects
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Time Learn to say the days of the week, months and dates Count on from 11 to 31
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Food, Glorious Food! Learn the vocabulary for a range of food to express likes and dislikes Count and use plural nouns |
| 4 |
All Around Town Learn about some of the sights of some typical French cities Learn to describe places in a town Count to 100 Give their address in French
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On the Move Develop conversational skills Learn to conjugate the high frequency verb 'to go' in context
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Going Shopping Develop conversational skills Learn to conjugate the high frequency verb 'to go' in context
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Where in the World Learn specific countries of the UK, continents and animals from different continents Learn key phrases connected to the themes
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What's the time? Learn how to tell the time: o'clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to Learn how to read timetables and schedules and answer simple questions about these |
Holidays and Hobbies Learn specific vocabulary of how to say what the weather is like, temperatures, names of different sports and hobbies Learn key phrases
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| 5 |
Getting to Know You Apply previous knowledge from Y3 and Y4 Learn to express their emotions and talk about the future using two tenses
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All about Ourselves Apply previous knowledge of topic areas Learn to describe their own appearance
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Family and Friends Apply previous knowledge of topic areas Expand vocabulary and consolidate understanding of descriptive language including subjective descriptions Learn how French Adjectives must 'agree' with the noun they describe in relation to number and gender
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School Life Key vocabulary related to objects, subject and prepositional language Learn the names of 2D shapes in French
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Time Travelling Talk about key events in French history Use one of the common past tenses in French to give dates of birth/death for famous French people. Begin to use grammatical terms such as conjugation, auxiliary and infinitive verb |
That's tasty Learn to describe own appearance Learn about the position of adjectives in a sentence in French
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| 6 |
Let's visit a French Town Apply previous skills Use bilingual dictionaries Increase understanding of word classes
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Let's go Shopping Learn about the shopping experience in France Describe the colours of clothes Use prepositional language Learn key phrases for asking questions needed when going shopping
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This is France Learn about the shopping experience in France
Role play
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All in a Day Continue to develop skills taught since the start of the year
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