Languages

The national curriculum for languages aims to ensure that all pupils:

• understand and respond to spoken and written language from a variety of sources;
• speak with increasing confidence and fluency, including through discussion and asking questions;
• can write at varying length, for different purposes and audiences, using the variety of grammatical structures that they have learnt;
• discover and develop an appreciation of a range of writing in the language studied.

Languages is a statutory subject for all pupils in Key Stage 2 (Years 3-6), but at Hereward our language teaching begins in Key Stage 1 and Reception. Our chosen foreign language is French and we use a wide variety of resources to support this.

Additionally, in Year 6 the pupils complete a unit of work on Latin with specific attention given to how Latin words have helped shape the English language that we know today.

For the 2018/2019 school year, we are delighted to be visited by a Mandarin speaking assistant; she will be working within Years 2, 3 and 4. Please see below for a video of the children speaking in Mandarin.