Lilleshall School- MFL Intent, Implementation and Impact Statement
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Intent
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‘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 understand and respond to its speakers, both in speech and in writing.’ (National Curriculum 2014 – Appendix A) At Lilleshall Primary School, we aim to give the children in our care as wide a range of opportunities and experiences as possible. We acknowledge the influence that Europe has on our lives and as the UK is becoming an increasingly multicultural society, we have a duty to provide our children with an understanding of other cultures and languages. Learning a language enriches the curriculum, providing excitement, enjoyment and challenge for children and teachers, helping to create enthusiastic learners and to develop positive attitudes to language learning throughout life. The natural links between languages and other areas of the curriculum can enhance the overall teaching and learning experience. The skills, knowledge and understanding gained make a major contribution to the development of children’s oracy and literacy and to their understanding of their own culture and those of others. Language also lies at the heart of ideas about individual identity and community, and learning another language can do a great deal to shape children’s ideas in this critical area as well as giving them a new perspective on their own language At Lilleshall Primary School, we believe that children enjoy learning to speak another language. Secondly, we also believe that the earlier a child is exposed to a foreign language, the faster the language in question is acquired. It is widely believed that the early acquisition of a foreign language facilitates the learning of other foreign languages later in life.
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Implementation
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We teach a foreign language to children from Year 3, up to Year 6. Teaching staff deliver lessons, introduce new vocabulary and work as a good model of pronunciation and intonation. Teaching staff receive CPD on the aims and objectives of modern foreign language teaching and assessment. They use a variety of the following techniques to encourage children to have an active engagement with Languages: • Games – in order to develop vocabulary through repetition, reading, writing, speaking and listening skills. • Role-play – these should relate to the situations the children may find themselves in the future. • Action songs and rhymes – to develop phonetic skills, memory skills and to further vocabulary. • Puppets and toys – to be used to develop communication skills. • Mime - to associate vocabulary with kinaesthetic learning. • Reading and writing quality materials • ICT programs and websites; the use of ICT to develop communication skills • We make the lessons as entertaining and enjoyable as possible, as we realise that this approach serves to develop a positive attitude in the children to the learning of modern foreign languages. • We build children’s confidence through praise for any contribution they make in the foreign language, however tentative. We base the teaching on the 2014 National Curriculum through the Primary Languages Network, a recognised provider. We have adapted this to the context of our school. This provides teachers with clear progression grids and content for teaching and learning.
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Impact
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Through the high quality first teaching of Modern Foreign Languages taking place we will see the impact of the subject in different ways:
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