Intent

At St Stephen's C of E Primary School, we follow the Kapow Primary Curriculum for French. This carefully sequenced curriculum meets the requirements of the National Curriculum for Languages and ensures that linguistic knowledge and communication skills build progressively across Key Stage 2.

Our curriculum develops pupils' understanding across four key strands:

• Listening and Responding

• Speaking

• Reading and Writing

• Grammar and Cultural Understanding

Intercultural understanding is embedded throughout every year group, enabling pupils to foster curiosity, deepen their respect for other cultures, and appreciate diversity in the modern world. Pupils are encouraged to communicate with confidence while developing the foundation needed for secondary education, future employment and global citizenship.

Implementation

Key Knowledge and Skills

Our curriculum develops pupils' understanding across a range of key concepts including:

• Phonics and Pronunciation

• Vocabulary Acquisition

• Sentence Structure and Grammar

• Conversational Skills

• Listening Comprehension

• Reading and Translating

• Writing for Purpose

• Cultural Awareness and Diversity

Pupils develop these concepts through practical, interactive learning that encourages them to listen, speak, read, write and collaborate as confident language learners.

Curriculum Coverage

Learning is carefully sequenced so that pupils build upon prior knowledge while developing increasingly sophisticated language skills. The Kapow French Curriculum provides a clear progression from Year 3 to Year 6, ensuring that vocabulary and grammar structures are revisited, applied and deepened over time.

Pupils learn through a range of engaging, practical experiences including games, songs, role-play, interactive stories and written tasks. Phonetic awareness is woven throughout the curriculum to build clear pronunciation and spelling accuracy, while cultural insights are regularly highlighted and celebrated.

Impact

By the end of Year 6, our pupils are confident, reflective, culturally aware language learners who are well prepared for the transition to Key Stage 3 foreign language study.

Learning is assessed through spoken performance, written work, teacher assessment, discussion and pupils' ability to apply their linguistic knowledge independently in a range of contexts.

Our pupils will:

• Communicate with increasing confidence, fluency and accurate pronunciation in French.

• Understand and respond to spoken and written French from a variety of authentic sources.

• Write sentences and short paragraphs using familiar vocabulary and sound grammatical structures.

• Apply key language-learning strategies that build resilience when encountering new words.

• Demonstrate respect and curiosity for different cultures, languages and communities around the world.