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Intent
At Rothwell Primary School, we aim to promote a love and enthusiasm for learning a modern  foreign language; with opportunities to develop children’s listening, speaking, reading and writing skills through French lessons in Key Stage 2. We teach French as this is the preferred language for the two main high skills when the chidlren move to Y7.

Teaching of MfL provides the children with an excellent platform to explore cultural differences, which challenges stereotypes and prejudice whilst promoting diversity and equality. As Rothwell does not reflect the cultural diversity of Leeds, this is an important opportunities to reflect upon similarities and differences. This helps children to reflect on and celebrate the diverse nature of their local community and the wider world, as well as express their own cultural identities in a positive way.

Our languages curriculum provides a foundation for learning further languages, and equips children with the skills to apply this, giving them a thirst for learning languages and curiosity in the world.

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Implementation

We now use the ‘Language Angels’ scheme which shows the progression in listening, speaking, , reading, writing and grammar in KS2.

The lessons within the scheme are clearly mapped out with a strong progression of skills, providing plentiful opportunities to revisit and recall past learning and apply previously learnt vocabulary into full sentences.

As children progress through Key Stage 2, they develop new skills through listening, speaking, reading and writing, where new vocabulary is taught alongside the revisiting of previously learnt phrases to ensure progress. This enables pupils to grow in competence as they realise the previous knowledge they can apply to their new learning. With each new stage of learning, the core language skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing are progressively built on, adding depth and complexity. For example, in writing children in Year 3 would begin their language learning by writing or copying a few simple words which would have progressed to writing a short text by the time the children leave Rothwell Primary School in Year 6.

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Impact

By the time the children leave at the end of Year Six, they will have developed the necessary transferable skills for language learning. These skills will be important as children go on to study a range of different languages at KS3.

Outcomes in MFL are assessed through a combination of children’s foreign language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing and knowledge retained through the end of unit skills check – these are designed to assess what children have learnt and retained through the unit of work. Each assessment will be assessed by the teacher to identify whether a child is working towards, at or exceeding the expected standard. These assessments will be used to inform the teacher’s end of year summative assessment.

The MFL subject leader will continually monitor the impact MFL teaching is having on the children’s learning, through work scrutinies, to ensure the progress of knowledge and skills is being taught. This will be through: book moderation, pupils voice and teacher discussions.

Our MFL curriculum will ensure all pupils develop key language learning skills set out by the national curriculum, as well as a love of languages and learning about other cultures.