2024-2025

Year 3

During Year 3, the children have enjoyed their very first French lessons, learning greetings, numbers, days of the week, months and colours. They have also just completed a unit on food and used their knowledge of days of the week to read the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar in French and have written their own stories.

Year 4

During year 4, the children have learnt a wide variety of topics including  parts of the body where they used that language to create their own monsters. They have also studied a map of France and learnt about the location of key towns and compass points. Recently they have been learning about animals and reading a story about going to the zoo  and then learning to talk about their hobbies.

Year 5

This year, Year 5 have learnt a variety of topics including birthdays, describing members of their family, shops, French towns and the difference between towns in France and England. They have also learnt about food and being able to give opinions about food as well as being able to recognise weather expressions and talk about the weather.

They have had fun designing their own towns and writing about them and have also written weather reports.

Previous years' French learning

Click on the link to the video resource centre to see some of our children learning their French numbers through dance and music. 

French Breakfast - Le Petit Déjeuner

Year 6 had great fun ordering and trying out a French breakfast (le petit déjeuner) with Mrs Ozkaya and Mr Purcell.

Year 5 also tried a typical French breakfast with Ms E-T. They ordered the items in French and then told us their opinions of each food that they had tasted using the key French vocabulary that we had been learning.

Year 3 have been reading 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' in French and have used the story as a model to write their own, incorporating key themes from this year : food, numbers and days of the week.

Year 4 have been learning about hobbies and sports and giving their opinions about what they like and don't like to do.

Year 5 have also been learning about sports and hobbies and how to form a simple future tense sentence and have used key vocabulary from previous topics such as likes and dislikes, age and days of the week to write a parargraph about themselves.

Year 6 have been learning about food and drink. We have compared French school menus with our own,  looked at typical French foods and daily eating habits and they have written a paragraph about the foods that they like and dislike and why.