Our French curriculum, using the Language Angels scheme, aims to inspire and engage pupils with a broad, vibrant, and ambitious programme. We set high expectations, encouraging all learners to reach their full potential and feel confident to continue studying French beyond Key Stage 2. 

The curriculum develops the four key language skills—listening, speaking, reading, and writing—alongside age-appropriate grammar, enabling pupils to use French in varied contexts and supporting learning across the wider curriculum. Pupils are also taught to research and reference French independently, building a resource bank to reinforce and extend knowledge throughout primary school. 

Our aim is for pupils to enjoy learning French, develop cultural awareness, and become confident, lifelong language learners. 

• We use the Language Angels scheme of work and resources to deliver regularly taught, well-planned French lessons across KS2.  Lessons are progressive, enabling pupils to acquire, use, and apply an expanding bank of vocabulary, skills, and grammar, building from simple language to more complex, fluent, and authentic French. 

• Lessons are 30–45 minutes, linked to topics and cross-curricular themes, and structured to develop listening, speaking, reading, writing, and grammar. Units recycle and consolidate prior learning while introducing new material, with grammar taught progressively and integrated throughout.  

• All lessons include clear objectives, interactive materials, speaking/listening tasks, differentiated activities, and opportunities for extended reading and writing. Lessons build progressively within each unit (‘language Lego’), allowing pupils to construct increasingly sophisticated French. Pupils’ skills are formally assessed to track progression.  

Language Angels units ensure progressive learning through both lesson sequence and Teaching Type categories. Pupils move from Early Learning units, focusing on basic nouns and short phrases, through Intermediate units with increased vocabulary and grammar, to Progressive units, where they create longer, more personalised spoken and written responses. Activities build in complexity, recycling and consolidating prior knowledge.