French
Head of French: Mrs S Condy (email)
Aims and Objectives:
- To teach French to all pupils in Years 1 to 8
- To prepare pupils for Common Entrance and Scholarship Examinations
- To enable all pupils to benefit from the presence of a full-time French Assistant
- To organise trips to France
- To enter French competitions and take part in language festivals
- To provide an enjoyable and stimulating language learning experience for pupils of all abilities, with schemes of work that are designed to be challenging and raise expectations
- To develop the ability to use French effectively for purposes of practical communication, both inside and outside the classroom
- To establish the linguistic skills of speaking, listening, reading and writing and to reinforce the language and attitudes required to facilitate the further learning of French.
- To develop a knowledge and understanding of and positive attitudes towards speakers of French throughout the world
- To promote an understanding of multicultural and gender issues
- To build in pupils an awareness of the language learning process and thereby facilitate the learning of other languages
- To promote a range of learning styles including collaborative work with peers and independent learning
- To use a variety of teaching resources including information technology
- To develop pupils’ communication, creativity and thinking skills
- To make a useful contribution to other areas of the curriculum
- To be forward looking, dynamic and ‘très cool’!
