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?If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.?
Ludwig Wittgenstein
At Eaton Square School, French is introduced at the age of four years and lessons continue throughout their time at the school.
The aim is to help them discover the enjoyment of another language through games and songs, develop their knowledge of another culture; and encourage at an early age without reservation to speak a foreign language.
From Transition up to Year Two, the school provides an introduction to French using a global method. This consists of learning vocabulary and language patterns through active individual participation in songs, action songs, finger rhymes, story telling, drawing, colouring and acting. Learning activities used involve all senses.
From Year Three the children start developing their reading skills and they start learning French grammar and cultural facts.
During Year Seven and Eight pupils will commence the Common Entrance Syllabus. In Year 7 all children continue to study French, taking five lessons a week. The four skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking continue to be practised regularly so that all these language skills develop further as the year progresses. Tasks become longer and more complex. The cultural background continues to be an important element of the course and is explored whenever the opportunity arises. It will provide a basis for continuing study of the language and encourage independent learning.
Pupils from Years 3 to 8 are given one set of homework a week.
Assessment is an ongoing process during lessons, as teachers assess pupils? knowledge, understanding and skills from their oral answers to questions as well as their written work. Formal oral or written assessment exams are set twice a term for Year Four to Year Eight.
The children are given the opportunity to practise the language during various trips to France from Year Four to Year Seven, including a ski trip to La Clusaz, France where pupils practise speaking the language and also have daily French lessons. There is a Paris trip for Pupils in Year Six. Pupils in Year Seven visit a Chateaux in Sauveterre, France for half a term of intensive French tuition.
French Curriculum Summary
| Form |
Term |
Topic Outline |
| Foundation Stage |
| Transition |
Spring |
Greetings, face, family, house, colours, numbers. |
| Summer |
Body, family, colours, numbers. |
| Foundation Stage and Key Stage One |
| Reception |
Autumn |
Myself, my family, my house, Autumn, Christmas, action verbs. |
| Spring |
My toys, Winter, Valentine’ day, My pets, Easter. |
| Summer |
The garden, action verbs, zoo animals, Summer. |
| Key Stage One |
| Year One |
Autumn |
Colours, my body, the senses, my pets, my face, my family, Christmas. |
| Spring |
Toys, Winter, Valentine’s day, story: les trois petits cochons- farm animals, Easter. |
| Summer |
Garden animals, in the kitchen, in the country side, Summer clothes, morning routine, holidays in France. |
| Year Two |
Autumn |
School, action verbs, Autumn, family, house, days of the week, fireworks, Christmas. |
| Spring |
Toys, Winter, cooking a cake, pancake day, face and body, farm animals, Easter. |
| Summer |
In the garden, Summer, morning routine, clothes, food and drinks, holidays in France. |
| Key Stage Two |
| Year Three |
Autumn |
Transport, people, countries surrounding France, house and garden, animals, days of the week, the face, Christmas. |
| Spring |
Food, drink, shops and shopping, cutlery, furniture, Mardi gras, Easter. |
| Summer |
Clothes, parts of the body, action verbs, holidays in France. |
| Year Four |
Autumn |
Transport, house and garden, places, animals, the face, colours and numbers, ordinal numbers, Christmas. |
| Spring |
Food, shops and shopping, furniture, skiing in France: ski equipment, regional food, meeting my pen pal, a French village, Easter. |
| Summer |
More shops, clothes and accessories, parts of the body, directions, points on the compass. |
| Year Five |
Autumn |
Clothes and accessories, the time, prepositions, more adjectives, some regions. |
| Spring |
Food and drink, shops and shopping, cutlery, the different meals, ski vocabulary, Food in the Alps, more regions. |
| Summer |
Useful places in town, the rooms in the house and the garden, find your way in the town: simple directions, a day in the North of France. |
| Year Six |
Autumn |
Transport, countries, personal description, welcome, my house, vocabulary on ICT |
| Spring |
Leisure activities, my bedroom, helping at home, a day out, a day in Paris. |
| Summer |
A day in the city, at the sport centre, buying souvenirs, organising a party. |
| Key Stage Three |
| Year Seven |
Autumn |
Your home, house tasks, television, daily routine, school, talking about a visit and a weekend away, ICT (informatique ) in the daily life |
| Spring |
Leisure activities, sport and equipment, belonging to a club, talking about illnesses, aches and pains, lost properties. |
| Summer |
Suggesting activities, clothes, travelling by metro and asking the way, buying presents, talking about a stay, writing a thank you letter. |
| Year Eight |
Autumn |
The language of the classroom, ICT, house, home and daily routine, life and work at school, time, dates and numbers, personal description, family and friends, meeting people. |
| Spring |
Free time activities, describing holiday activities, visiting a café or a restaurant, simple health problems, describing a town or a region, finding your way and using transport. |
| Summer |
Obtaining information from the tourist office, shopping and money, the weather, Revision of topics. |
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