Curriculum Maps

Year 3

Year 3 Overview

All About Me (6 weeks)	Focus on listening to French. Greetings. Learn the numbers from 1 – 20. What are you called? How old are you? Learn one of the French songs (which uses numbers 1 – 20) European Languages Day (26/9/21): afternoon focus of Week 4 Set up a link with a partner school in France.
Games and Songs (6 weeks)	Over-view of new vocabulary linked to games and songs. Revise words and phrases from previous session and use numbers from 1 – 20 in a context. Focus on sentences linked to games and songs and numbers. Introduce names of five types of animals in French and link to numbers. Follow the ‘Story board’ which is a conversation. Complete the ‘Challenge’ which assesses the children’s knowledge and understanding.
Final week of term	Reinforcement and consolidation week
Celebrations (6 weeks)	Introduction to birthday greeting. Discuss different celebrations in France and compare with ones in Britain. Use the present simple tense in sentences using subject and verb. Introduce the negative: ‘ne…pas.’ The months of the year. Follow the ‘Story board’ which is a conversation. Complete the ‘Challenge’ which assesses the children’s knowledge and understanding.
Portraits (6 weeks)	Introduction to the French for the different colours. Introduction to the names of facial features which are linked to the colours. Learn a song in French (which refers to names of the body parts.) Follow the ‘Story board’ which is a conversation. Complete the ‘Challenge’ which assesses the children’s knowledge and understanding.
Final week of term	Reinforcement and consolidation week
The Four Friends (6 weeks)	Introduce the names of five more different animals. Construct sentences in present simple tense linked to what the animals are associated with. Link the above to the children’s knowledge of colours. Follow the ‘Story board’ which is a conversation. Complete the ‘Challenge’ which assesses the children’s knowledge and understanding.
Growing Things (6 weeks)	Introduction of five types of vegetables. Revise ‘J’aime’ and ‘Je n’aime pas’ in the context of vegetables. Learn a song in French which focuses on the pronunciation of ‘on.’ Follow the ‘Story board’ which is a conversation. Complete the ‘Challenge’ which assesses the children’s knowledge and understanding.
Final week of term	Reinforcement and consolidation week

Year 4

All Aboard	European Languages Day: afternoon focus of Week 3 Set up a link with a partner school in France. Learn the names of different types of weather and modes of transport. Learn the days of the week. Follow the ‘Story board’ which is a conversation. Complete the ‘Challenge’ which assesses the children’s knowledge and understanding.
Pocket Money	Learn the numbers from 11 – 30. Learn how to give their opinion (of a toy) in French. Extend children’s vocabulary of different food types. Follow the ‘Story board’ which is a conversation. Complete the ‘Challenge’ which assesses the children’s knowledge and understanding.
Final week of term	Reinforcement and consolidation week
Tell Me a Story	Learn the numbers from 31 – 100. Learn a set of commands. Learn about the masculine and feminine form of adjectives. Practise reading a story (Sleeping Beauty) aloud in French. Follow the ‘Story board’ which is a conversation. Complete the ‘Challenge’ which assesses the children’s knowledge and understanding.
Our Sporting Lives	Extend children’s vocabulary of different types of food. Complete sentences using different determiners. Construct sentences using the days of the week followed by an activity. Follow the ‘Story board’ which is a conversation. Complete the ‘Challenge’ which assesses the children’s knowledge and understanding.
Final week of term	Reinforcement and consolidation week
Carnivals of Animals	Learn to tell the time (on the hour.) Construct sentences with a subject, verb and prepositional phrase. Extend children’s vocabulary of adjectives. Extend the children’s vocabulary of animals. Follow the ‘Story board’ which is a conversation. Complete the ‘Challenge’ which assesses the children’s knowledge and understanding.
What’s the Weather Like?	Use fronted adverbials within sentences. Learn how to say temperatures (associated with weather) in French. Extend children’s vocabulary of different clothes and types of weather. Follow the ‘Story board’ which is a conversation. Complete the ‘Challenge’ which assesses the children’s knowledge and understanding.
Final week of term	Reinforcement and consolidation week

Year 5

Healthy Eating	European Languages Day: afternoon focus of Week 3 Continue to develop links with French-speaking school (from Year 4) Learn the names of different foods and identify the gender of each and use the words in sentences. Follow the ‘Story board’ which is a conversation. Complete the ‘Challenge’ which assesses the children’s knowledge and understanding.
I am the Music Man	Learn the names of musical instruments and identify the gender of each and use the words in sentences. Use ‘je’ and ‘tu’ in their sentences and questions to one another. Follow the ‘Story board’ which is a conversation. Complete the ‘Challenge’ which assesses the children’s knowledge and understanding.
Final week of term	Reinforcement and consolidation week
On the Way to School	Learn the French alphabet. Learn the names of shops/facilities. Learn directions: left/right. Use ‘ou est?’ and ‘c’est’ at the beginning of questions and answers. Use common verbs: ‘je vais,’ ‘je tourney,’ ‘je traverse.’ Follow the ‘Story board’ which is a conversation. Complete the ‘Challenge’ which assesses the children’s knowledge and understanding.
Beach Scene	Learn words associated with the beach and identify the gender of each of these words and use them in sentences. Learn to use ’Il y a’ at the beginning of a sentence and the plural of high-frequency verbs. Follow the ‘Story board’ which is a conversation. Complete the ‘Challenge’ which assesses the children’s knowledge and understanding.
Final week of term	Reinforcement and consolidation week
The Return of Spring	Learn the names of the seasons and re-cap on the months of the year. Re-cap on names of animals, adjectives such as froid (cold) and colours. Construct sentences with a fronted adverbial, prepositional phrase, noun and adjective. Follow the ‘Story board’ which is a conversation. Complete the ‘Challenge’ which assesses the children’s knowledge and understanding.
The Planets	Learn the names of the planets. Use the names of the planets in sentences using adjectives. Identify verbs, nouns and adjectives within a piece of text. Construct sentences using a subject, verb, conjunction, noun, preposition and adjective.
Final week of term	Reinforcement and consolidation week

Year 6

Our School	European Languages Day: afternoon focus of Week 3. Children write an email/letter to a peer in the French-speaking school they have made connections with. Learn vocabulary associated with a normal school day. Construct sentences using days of the week, subjects and the time of day. Re-cap on colours and adjectives and the gender of these. Read a piece of text and be able to retrieve key information from it. Follow the ‘Story board’ which is a conversation. Complete the ‘Challenge’ which assesses the children’s knowledge and understanding.
The World about us	Learn more names of countries and the continents. Link countries to names of animals which are associated with that country. Construct sentences using a fronted adverbial, a subject, noun, adjective, prepositional phrase and conjunction. Re-cap on first, second and third person. Follow the ‘Story board’ which is a conversation. Complete the ‘Challenge’ which assesses the children’s knowledge and understanding.
Final week of term	Reinforcement and consolidation week
Then and Now	Introduce the past simple tense. Re-cap on vocabulary associated with shops/facilities. Re-cap on the vocabulary for different items of clothing and introduce new ones. Re-cap on the first, second and third person. Follow the ‘Story board’ which is a conversation. Complete the ‘Challenge’ which assesses the children’s knowledge and understanding.
Out and About	Using numbers in the context of money. Learn the names of fairground rides and the gender of these. Construct sentences using a fronted adverbial, a subject, noun, adjective, prepositional phrase and conjunction. Follow the ‘Story board’ which is a conversation. Complete the ‘Challenge’ which assesses the children’s knowledge and understanding.
Final week of term	Reinforcement and consolidation week
Setting up a cafe	Learn when to use ‘n’… pas’ when the verb starts with a vowel. Continue to use the past simple tense. Introduce the progressive form of the future tense. Learn the vocabulary associated with a café and how to order an item/s and respond appropriately. Follow the ‘Story board’ which is a conversation. Complete the ‘Challenge’ which assesses the children’s knowledge and understanding.
What’s in the news?	Continue to use the progressive form of the future tense. Continue to use ‘n’…pas’ when the verb starts with a vowel. Use time of day in the context of a timetable of television programmes. An introduction of when to use the cedilla in French. Follow the ‘Story board’ which is a conversation. Complete the ‘Challenge’ which assesses the children’s knowledge and understanding.
Final week of term	Reinforcement and consolidation week