At Smawthorne Henry Moore, our language curriculum is based upon Wakefield’s language scheme ‘La Jolie Ronde’. The aim for our children when learning a language is to give them a wider understanding of the French culture and provide them with the phonic, grammar and vocabulary skills to be confident French speakers. Over the time they spend with us, we would like our children to achieve a depth of understanding in French that is developed as they progress through The Smawthorne Experience to equip children with the depth of knowledge they need to transition to Key Stage 3
Grammar
- Pupils will have a secure understanding of key grammatical concepts:
Year 3 – Word level / short phrases.
- subject/verb agreement (singular/plural)
- gender
- plurals
- pronouns (first person)
Year 4 – Phrases/simple sentences – introduce some co-ordinating conjunctions within sentences
- gender
- determiners
- simple sentence construction- noun + verb + adjective
- agreement
- pronouns (first and second)
- verb avoir
- plurals
- negative sentence
- clause with conjunciton
Year 5 – sentence level, joining some clauses together with conjunctions , introduce adverbials
- revisit indefinite articles/determiners
- revisit adjectives position
- revisit gender/adjective agreement
- pronouns (first –including possessive- , second and third)
- using two verbs in a sentence
- future tense
- perfect tense verbs
- extend sentences using adverbials
Year 6 – Write a short paragraph using some more sophisticated conjunctions and sentence openers.
- revisit all previous grammar
- subordinating conjunctions to extend basic sentences
- word classes
- future tense
- prepositions
- extend sentences using adverbials
Reading and writing
- Pupils will have opportunity to read, understand and respond to stories, songs, rhymes and poems in French to deepen their understanding of the language and the cultural capital.
- Children will use the grammar and vocabulary to develop their writing as they progress through school.
Oracy and phonics
- Through regular repetition of the key phonemes and graphemes, pupils will be secure with the sound-spelling link and have confidence in pronunciation.
- We aim to ensure that pupils leave Key Stage 2 with a secure phonic awareness through revisiting learning from previous weeks, units and year groups.
Vocabulary
- We recognise that an understanding of vocabulary is important to successful MFL learning.
- Children will learn new vocabulary each week and recap and revisit vocabulary from previous weeks, units and years.
- Vocabulary content repetition is built into ‘La jolie ronde’ scheme.
