Our Lady Of Mount Carmel Catholic Primary School

Modern Foreign Languages

Our Vision for Modern Foreign Languages MFL 

At Our Lady‘s we intend to provide a modern foreign languages curriculum that is engaging
and interactive and which inspires curiosity and respect towards other languages, countries,
and cultures.

Intent
We believe that a high-quality languages education should foster pupils’ curiosity and deepen 
their understanding of the world. The teaching should enable pupils to express their ideas 
and thoughts in another language and to respond to its speakers, both in speech and in 
writing. We hope to embed the essential skills of listening, reading, speaking and writing. 
Implementation To do this we will develop our children’s confidence in communication orally and in writing,
developing their speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills in the target language.
Our teaching of modern foreign languages focuses primarily on French 

Our teaching of modern foreign languages will enable our children to progressively broaden
their use of vocabulary and understanding of basic grammar specific to French. The children
will learn to communicate orally and in writing, developing their speaking, listening, reading
and writing skills through a varied range of activities. This will include exposing the children
to conversations, songs, rhymes, stories and games. Our curriculum breaks learning into key
topics which focus on particular areas of vocabulary each term across years 5 and 6 and which
progressively introduce new grammar rules to the children. They ensure development is 
progressive as they build on previous knowledge from units already studied. 

Impact
Through their learning in modern foreign languages the children will have developed the
confidence to communicate in simple French, orally and in writing, using the vocabulary
taught and will be ready to continue to develop their linguistic skills in KS3. They will have a
good understanding of the pronunciation of the French alphabet. Opportunities to converse
will ensure the knowledge taught is retained by the children and continually revisited and that 
the children are able to apply the skills they have been taught to a variety of different settings, 
showing independence with their learning.

“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him 
in his own language, that goes to his heart”. Nelson Mandela