MfL
At St Edwards we recognise that learning a foreign language can provide an opening to other cultures and deepens pupil’s understanding of the world around them. We believe that high-quality foreign language education should foster pupils’ curiosity and immerse them in a variety of cultures and practises. Teaching should enable pupils to express their ideas and thoughts in another language and allow them to understand and respond to its speakers, both in speech and writing. It should also provide opportunities for them to communicate for practical purposes. Pupils should be encouraged to learn new ways of thinking and to read literature in the original language. Through effective teaching we feel that the study of a language can enable of pupils to study and work in other countries in their future years.
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Throughout the scheme of work we use (Primary Languages Network), there are opportunities for children to introduce and practise appropriate target language vocabulary, to identify and use nouns, adjectives, verbs, prepositions, and conjunctions in the target language, to explore and build a secure understanding of the target language phonics, and to find out more about the culture of the target language countries.
There is access to native speaker pronunciation in every lesson. Progression in vocabulary acquisition, grammar, and phonics, is planned for and built in across the 4 stages. Language learning skills and links between languages and literacy are explored age and stage appropriately. Within the body of the lessons there are planned for /suggested opportunities to sing, play games, perform, develop extended writing (Rainbow Writing), keep a record, and make links across the curriculum.