Intent
At Tibberton CE Primary School the MFL curriculum is international so that there is an understanding, celebration of and respect for the diversity within our school community and the world. We want to develop pupils who are excited to explore the wider world within and outside the classroom and we realise the value of studying other languages and cultures as a means of increasing pupils’ cultural capital.
Implementation
With an approach which takes into account the pupils’ ongoing language-learning journey, we appreciate the need for children to have transferable language skills as opposed to simply knowledge of one specific language, which may then not be continued at high school. At Tibberton, we focus on the language of French, teaching this through incidental means within KS1 before the language is taught succinctly in KS2 in line with the National Curriculum.