Bromstone Primary School

MFL

French

• At Bromstone Primary School we teach French as a foreign language.

• We also teach British Sign Language.

Tongue twisters

• Every French lesson starts by a range of tongue twisters.

• “Trois tortues qui trottaient sur trois toits très étroits.”

• “Ces six saucissons sont si secs qu’on ne sait si s’en sont”…

• The use of tongue twisters is a very good way to practice the sounds of a language especially with young children.

Puppets

• To achieve our targets in French we are using puppets.

• Puppets allow children to speak confidently.• There are videos of children using the puppets

on our website.

Games

• We are using a range of games and have lots of resources made year after year.

Singing

• We sing songs at the end of every French lessons.

• We are using “Tous les jours” an Out of Ark Music resource.

• We are doing one French Singing assembly a term.There is a video of a FrenchAssembly on our website.

Reading in a foreign language.

• The French teacher of the school is a native French and she reads stories in French to the children from year R to year 6.

• For example, year 1 topic was Anthony Browne last term and we’ve been reading two stories written by him in French.

Assessment

• from 3 years, all year 6 are making a power point in French by the end of the year using their knowledge in this language.( Ask Caroline for any examples of these from last year).

• We are working on the “French booklets” for children to progress in French at their rhythm.(Same idea as the Spelling and Numeracy booklets).

• These will contain different levels up to 10 and will help the children to memorise vocabulary and few sentences in French.