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Modern Foreign Languages Intent

French Curriculum Map                            Spanish Curriculum Map

Our goal for our pupils is for the study of a foreign language at Neale Wade to open the door of opportunity and ambition through engaging cultural capital and clear progress in communicative ability in the language being learned, whether that is French or Spanish. It is our moral imperative to widen our students’ horizons through opportunities to understand cultures of different countries and peoples. ​

​Therefore the Neale Wade Curriculum will foster pupils’ curiosity and deepen their understanding of the world. The teaching will enable students to express their ideas and thoughts in another language and to understand and respond to its speakers, both in speech and in writing. Language teaching should provide the foundation for learning further languages, equipping students to study and work in other countries. ​

The aims of the MFL Curriculum are to ensure that all pupils: ​

  • understand and respond to spoken and written language from a variety of authentic sources and teaching resources;​
  • speak with increasing confidence, fluency and spontaneity, finding ways of communicating what they want to say, including through discussion and asking questions, and continually improving the accuracy of their pronunciation and intonation, with a particular focus on phonics;​
  • can write at varying length, for different purposes and audiences, using the variety of grammatical structures that they have learnt;​
  • discover and develop an appreciation of the countries and cultures where the language is used, not focusing solely on Europe, but also on countries across the world that have French or Spanish as their native or official language. ​

​The vocabulary, grammar, and phonics taught have been selected based on relevance and interest to our pupils, in addition to frequency of use within the language and the ability to recycle those items in a different context. Students will be introduced to new language patterns through an intensive phase of highly structured communicative tasks and drills which provide ample comprehensible input, before focusing more specifically on the grammar contained in those units.​

This approach leads to a period of controlled output and autonomy which allows them to produce the language more creatively and with greater spontaneity and confidence throughout the course of study. We build in a good deal of repetition and retrieval in order to help embed patterns and enhance more fluent recall. We also develop the four key skills over the course of each module with activities in listening, reading, writing and speaking, building on the difficulty as we progress through the course. This will provide a solid basis for students to study for a GCSE qualification in a language and to then take it further at A Level or for pleasure.

MFL Reading Approach        French Assessment Approach     Spanish Assessment Approach