Modern Foreign Languages
At The Olive School, Blackburn, we have high expectations for all our children, so they become confident and ambitious, life-long language learners. We have designed our French and Arabic curriculum with the intent to give our children a well-rounded knowledge of listening to, speaking, reading, and writing French/Arabic.
Through exciting, pupil-friendly, and relevant topics such as ‘animals’, ‘the family’ and ‘my home’, our children will systematically develop these essential modalities, including a focus on basic grammar and core vocabulary. We will methodically introduce, frequently practice, and continually revisit important vocabulary, spellings, and pronunciation principles, so that our children will learn more and remember more. By the time our children leave us, our French/Arabic curriculum will have laid the foundations for further language learning in Key Stage 3 and beyond.
We will deliver a knowledge-rich French/Arabic curriculum that:
- Has speaking and listening at its heart, so that children can engage in and understand simple conversations, as well as present to an audience.
- Supports children to read with expression and understand relevant points in simple texts.
- Develops children’s abilities to write longer sentences and shorter paragraphs, using basic grammar correctly.
- Systematically builds a useful and practical French vocabulary.
- Adapts the Language Angels scheme of work and its vast bank of interactive resources to support teachers to provide high-quality weekly lessons.
The detailed, sequential development of French/Arabic knowledge, skills and understanding is carefully mapped out in our curriculum maps, accessible below. These curriculum maps ensures that teachers are supported to plan lessons that include all learners, of all abilities, allowing skill progression within a particular strand of French/Arabic to be fully understood by teachers.
Our children are given motivating cross-curricular opportunities and special experiences to embed essential learning in French/Arabic. This enrichment is an essential element of our curriculum offer.
To view our French Curriculum Map, click here
To view our Arabic Curriculum Map, click here