We believe that the learning of a language provides a valuable educational, social and cultural experience for our pupils. It helps them to develop communication skills, including key skills in speaking, listening, reading and writing. Learning will enable pupils to make substantial progress in one language, but the linguistic skills gained will assist and lay foundations for further language learning (for example, Spanish at high school). It will provide pupils with the confidence and independence to explore and be able to attempt manipulation of the structure of language and make links with grammar learning in English. Learning another language gives children a new and broader perspective on the world, encouraging them to understand their own cultures and those of others.
MFL enables our children to demonstrate our values of friendship and respect as they work together on speaking and listening, and honesty as they support each other with pronunciation and understanding. Our children will show determination to learn a different language and pride in their achievements as they demonstrate and self-assess their improvement and progress.
A range of teaching methods are implemented to ensure that the children are developing their linguistic skills through listening, speaking, reading and writing. Grammatical concepts are also built into the planning accumulatively as is an awareness of phonics. The activities are varied and consist of actions, rhymes, stories, song, drama, grammar games, video clips, word to sentence structure work, dictionary work, presentations and many more creative ways to learn, extend and embed the learning. Topics build through KS2, enabling children to use prior learning on topics such as colours, family and weather to progress and build more complex sentences in topics such as hobbies and clothing.
The MFL National Curriculum 2014 is followed at Oakdene Primary School.
As MFL is not a statutory requirement at KS1, our focus here is on embedding languages into daily school routines and exposing children regularly to the foreign language through simple rhymes, songs, stories and games to prepare them for a more structured approach to language learning in KS2.
In KS2 progression has been mapped out in conjunction with the Kapow scheme of work. Topics of work have been created with activities developed to ensure that the objectives are met and that substantial progress is made across the key stage.
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