Modern Foreign Languages at Bedford Drive Primary School

Here at Bedford Drive Primary School we believe that the learning of a foreign language provides a valuable educational, social and cultural experience for pupils.

French is taught to KS2 as part of PPA cover. The planning is designed to balance elements of speaking, listening, reading and writing in each topic. The older pupils also learn more about the grammar of the language.

Topics covered over the year include: Greetings, Family, Numbers, Colours, Likes and Dislikes, Sports and Leisure and Weather/Seasons.

Lessons are structured to approach learning in a variety of ways: use of role play, songs and games, matching, reading and writing activities. 

Learning a language should be fun and is an active way of learning about different cultures and their traditions, as well as comparing their way of living with our own. This should foster our pupil’s curiosity and deepen their understanding of the world.

The national curriculum for languages aims 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

Year 3

Year 3 have had great fun learning about colours and body parts in French. Here they are singing Head, shoulders, knees and toes in French!!

Year 4

Year 4 have been busy talking about sporting preferences. We have been using bi lingual dictionaries to find French words and we have been expressing our opinion about certain sports.

J’aime - I like

Je n’aime pas - I don’t like

J’adore - I love

Je deteste - I hate

Year 5

Year 5 have been discussing the ‘Systeme Solaire!’  We have been using adjectives to describe the planets and we noticed that French sentence structure is different to that of English.  French sentences have the adjective after the noun and English sentences have the adjective before the noun.

Mars set une planete rouge

Mars is a red planet.

Year 6

Year 6 have enjoyed learning to work out big numbers and dates in French and how to order food in a French café. We had great fun with our roleplay activities!

Please click here to see the Overview of Modern Foreign Languages

There are a number of ways that you can support with your child’s learning at home with French please click here to look at the suggestions that we have made for you.

• Research where in the world French is spoken

• Can you name and describe the French flag

• Can you find France on a world map and name the capital city of France

• Different regions of France are famous for different things, can you find out more?

• Can you name some famous landmarks that can be found in France?

• Can you research some famous French people from past and present- artists, designers, sportsmen

• Play bingo using French numbers.

• Discuss the day of the week and month of the year in French

• Greet each other in French 

• But most of all have fun!! Don’t be afraid to get it wrong because that’s how we learn best!