Swiss Gardens Primary School

Our core aim for MFL is:

Our core aim for MFL is to give children a love of languages, to enable them to experience communicating in a different language and to prepare them for a secondary curriculum.

What do MFL lessons look like at Swiss Gardens Primary School?

Children’s MFL lessons are taught regularly across the year in KS2. Children learn French and have lessons weekly every other half term, lessons are usually half an hour to an hour per week.

The content of language lessons across the school varies, teaching different topics using everyday language, geographical elements about France and French speaking countries and the different cultures, customs and traditions these countries have.

Language skills progress through the school by starting with mainly listening and speaking and then building up to incorporate increased reading and writing through LKS2 to UKS2. Language lessons aim to build a foundation for future language learning at KS3. Lessons are taught by the class teacher.