Welcome to our Linden French page! On this page you will find information about what your child will be learning in this subject, photographs of work that has taken place and links to relevant websites.  We hope that you find this page useful.

What is MFL? What is a linguist?

Teaching Modern Foreign Languages allows children to explore an opening to different cultures. It enables our children at Linden Primary School to broaden their horizons through carefully mapped, high quality lessons. The Teaching Schools Council (TSC) 2016 published the Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) Pedagogy Review and suggested that content should be stimulating and widen students’ knowledge of the culture and history of the new language.

At Linden we teach children MFL by:

The core language that is taught at Linden is French. We cover the full national curriculum for French and implement this using our fun and engaging scheme of work ‘Primary Language Network’. Our carefully chosen scheme teaches French through an engaging fluent French speaker, alongside interactive games, songs and stories to bring French to life and allow the children to develop a passion for MFL.
Predominantly, our French curriculum covers the following five main areas:

• Speaking
• Listening
• Reading
• Writing
• Grammar

Our Linden Primary School MFL Vision:

Our vision at Linden Primary School is for our children to understand and communicate personal and factual information that goes beyond their immediate needs and interests, developing and justifying points of view in speech and writing, with increased spontaneity, independence and accuracy. We aspire to expose our pupils to a broad and ambitious Modern Languages curriculum, which is rich in skills and knowledge, develops self-efficacy, kindles curiosity and allows our children to explore other countries and cultures. Our Modern Languages curriculum will give pupils the opportunity to:

• use language skills, receptively and productively, for communication in the real world, for practical purposes, for their immediate needs, interests and beyond and to express and justify opinions;
• develop their confidence and autonomy to access new and unfamiliar language through the use of decoding skills brought about by the explicit teaching of phonics and sound patterns;
• work towards becoming a fluent and spontaneous speaker of the foreign language.