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Curriculum Intent

Curriculum Intent

Head of the department: Mrs Zorobabel Email: MFL@trinity.bexley.sch.uk

Our department Bible verse is: “There are, perhaps, a great many kinds of languages in the world, and no kind is without meaning.”

(1 Corinthians 14:10-11)

  • At Trinity Church of England School, we recognise that every young person deserves the best opportunities to learn a new language.
  • For this academic year, Trinity Church of England School is solely offering French as a foreign language
  • The MFL curriculum is designed to ensure that retrieval practice and student feedback both serve as fundamental tools to advance student progress. The structure of our lessons allows students to identify their own learning needs, gather and organise materials, monitor their mistakes, and evaluate task success. We believe that showing students how to improve is vital for their long-term success.
  • All MFL lessons contain reference to thinking hats and maps which provide the students with the need to develop their retrieval skills and to help them identify areas in which they would like to develop their skills further.
  • We aim to offer our students an ambitious curriculum that is based upon reoccurring and complex grammar at key stage three, followed by retrieval and exam practice in key stage four. This allows students to develop the long-term knowledge and skills they will need during key stage three, to equip them for success at the end of key stage four.
  • We aim to develop the cultural capital of our students, by offering them extra-curricular opportunities to develop their language skills. Some examples of these are national and international trips, which provide a cultural setting for language acquisition and practice, film and cookery clubs, and opportunities to further develop reading skills in French.
  • We consider it highly important to communicate in a foreign language as part of our role as global citizens. We aim to convey this message to our students, to help prepare them for greater success within a global community and as part of this, to compete in a global economy.

 

Key Stage 3

 

In Year 7, students will study French this year. Students not only learn the language but also about the culture. We use the digital textbook Dynamo 1 for French. They learn vocabulary for, greetings, all about me, school, free time, town and holiday.

In Years 8 and 9 all students will be learning French. Practicing the four skills of language learning, listening, speaking, reading, and writing with a variety of resources, including the digital textbooks Dynamo 2 and Studio.

 Topics such as family, free time, school and future plans, relationships, town and holidays, media, health, and teenage life.

 At the end of Year 9 students will be encouraged to continue their language learning at GCSE.

Key Stage 4

Is it a two-year course using the AQA Exam Board? Kerboodle, an AQA learning resource, as well as a variety of other online resources, are available to students to aid their learning. The GCSE syllabus for French covers the following three themes:

  • Identity & Culture
  • Local, national, international, and global areas of interest
  • Current and future study and employment.

Website for AQA GCSE French

Whttps://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/french

Key Stage 5

 

 

 

Students who study A-level French study the AQA course because it constitutes an integrated study with a focus on language, culture, and society. It fosters a range of transferable skills including communication, critical thinking, research skills, and creativity, which are valuable to the individual and society. Students study technological and social change, looking at diversity and the benefits it brings. They will study highlights of French-speaking: artistic culture, including francophone music and cinema, and learn about political engagement and who wields political power in the French-speaking world.

Students also study either one book and one film or two books and they must appreciate, analyse, and be able to respond critically in writing in French to the work they have studied. Their understanding of the work must include a critical appreciation of the concepts and issues covered and a critical and analytical response to features such as the form and the technique of presentation as appropriate to the work studied. In addition, students will develop research skills in French, demonstrating the ability to initiate and conduct individual research on a subject of personal interest, relating to the country or countries where French is spoken.

 

 

 

 

 

What qualifications can be gained?

The qualification that the students get would is an AQA GCSE in French.

How do Modern Foreign Languages prepare students for the next stage of their education or employment?

Careers

Language skills can be used in almost any career, particularly in businesses that trade internationally. People with language skills are employed by a wide variety of employers and sectors including…

  • Business services
  • Engineering
  • Media
  • Charity work
  • Museums and libraries
  • Teaching
  • Transport and Logistics
  • Tourism
  • Governmental
  • Translation
  • Lawyer
  • Journalist
  • General Language Learning Websites

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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