"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

 

Intent - What are we aiming for?

At Asfordby Hill Primary School, we value Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) as an important part of the children’s entitlement to a broad and balanced curriculum. We believe that learning a Modern Foreign Language is a liberation from insularity and provides an opening to other cultures along with deepening an understanding of the world.

We follow the National Curriculum for MFL and aim to ensure that all pupils:

• understand and respond to spoken and written language from a variety of authentic sources

• speak with increasing confidence, fluency and spontaneity, finding ways of communicating what they want to say, including through discussion and asking questions, and continually improving the accuracy of their pronunciation and intonation

• can write at varying length, for different purposes and audiences, using the variety of grammatical structures that they have learnt

• discover and develop an appreciation of a range of writing in the language studied

Implementation - What does this look like?