French
Language learning is a key life skill. We aim to offer all children, from the age of four onwards, a full range of opportunities to experience another language and to provide a foundation for the acquisition of transferable skills for the future learning of foreign languages.
Aims
The aims of all activities are to:
- Create enthusiasm and enjoyment for another language and curiosity for the culture and way of life
- Raise awareness of a multi-lingual and multi-cultural world
- Develop self-confidence and self-expression in listening and speaking activities. leading to reading and writing in Key Stage 2
- Develop ability to use context and clues to interpret meaning
- Give a sense of achievement in being able to take part in simple tasks (conversations, games, songs) in another language
- Develop communication and literacy skills which will lay a foundation for future language learning
- Enhance language awareness and reinforce skills used in the mother tongue as well as in the foreign language
- Develop listening skills and learn to differentiate unfamiliar sounds
- Develop pronunciation and articulation of sounds not commonly use in speaking English