All pupils are encouraged to take an active and
creative part in lessons through memory games,
songs, pair, group and team work. The children
develop language skills by discussing similarities
and, differences and making links with other
languages they already know.
¿Qué vamos a
aprender?
(What are we going to learn?)
Year 6
Year 6:
At Key Stage 1 pupils will be
responding to the language and
speaking with support. In Key
Stage 2 pupils will also be
taking part in questions and
answers, role-playing, reading
and writing words in French or
Spanish.
Why not encourage your child to teach you some
of the words, phrases and songs he or she already
knows?
This half term we will revise opinions
and link them to different sports.
We will look at more irregular verbs and
discuss their conjugation.
Early Years
Year 4
Our challenge this half term will be to
write independently in paragraphs
(mostly from memory) using the correct
part of the verb and extending phrases
using conjunctions.
Year 5 we will continue to work on
physical description and add
structures about personalities.
Qu’est-ce qu’on va
apprendre?
Nursery: We will be extending our numbers
to 6 revising and adding to our colours. This
half term our topic is mini beasts so we will
learn some of their names in French.
(What are we going to learn?)
This half term Year 4 will
learn to describe areas
around the school in
French. We will use
directions to follow routes
on a plan and create our
own mini plays for asking
directions.
We will link this knowledge to our
current topic in order to describe a
famous person.
Our grammar focus will continue to
st
nd
rd
be using verbs in the 1 , 2 and 3
person.
Year 1
Year 3
&2
In Year 3 will use our numbers 1
– 31 with confidence so that we
can say the date in French. We
will
discuss
and
compare
important dates in France and
England.
Our challenge will be to ask each
other and answer questions using
a questionnaire about birthdays.
Year 5
Reception: The members of the family will be
our focus. We will learn how to make clues to
help us remember and listen to a story about
a family.
Year 1: We will be learning how to name the
members of the family. We will learn how to
make clues to help us remember and listen to a
story about a family. We will also learn the days
of the week in order to say the date in French
everyday
Year 2:
We will learn how to say the days of the week,
so we can say the date everyday in English and
French in class. We will also have fun learning
the parts of the body and design and describe
monsters in French.
Ecole Godefroy Cavaignac
Year 5
We have taken pictures of our school and
written descriptions about our school day in
reply to our penpals.
Year 6
Year 6 are looking forward to their visit to
Paris after all of their hard work for the
SAT’s.
Practice the names of some the famous
monuments below in French.
MFL: French & Spanish
Summer Term 1
Southwold Curriculum
Newsletter
Bienvenue / Bienvenidos!
Dear Parents and Carers,
Welcome to our Summer 1 curriculum newsletter. For
parents who are new to Southwold my name is
Madame Alexander-Joseph and I teach French from
Year 3 to Year 5. Madame Pérez is teaching French
Le Sacre Coeur
La Tour Eiffel
from Nursery to Year 2 and teaching Year 3 & 4
French and Spanish in Year 6. I look forward to
bringing you up to date with our learning and events in
the coming year.
L’Arc de Triomphe
If you need to contact me or Madame Pérez please
leave a message at the school office.