Our French provision is taught by a specialist language teacher. Children from Year 1 to Year 6 receive weekly lessons. Children use a variety of speaking and listening activities to develop their language skills, alongside written tasks.  By learning a modern foreign language, our pupils gain an opportunity to develop an understanding of the social and cultural aspects of the language and country that they are studying. 

Our Languages Intent:

At Charville Academy we believe that our ambitious Languages curriculum enables the students to develop an appreciation of a language. Students have the opportunity to make progress in one language, which also provides them with a variety of skills that they can use to further study languages and develop a love of languages. As active learners, the pupils gain experience in communicating for practical purposes and learn new ways of thinking, writing and reading literature in addition to speaking. Our Languages curriculum fosters the curiosity of pupils, deepening their understanding of other cultures and of the world they live in. As well as acquiring the knowledge and vocabulary of a new language, students are able to develop cognitive skills, mental flexibility, listening and problem-solving skills. There are opportunities within a lesson to practise social interaction between peers, growing their confidence in speaking with fluency and complexity. Whether the language is learnt through song, stories or pictorial representations, students are able to broaden their vocabulary and retrieve from their memories. Their foundation of learning equips the students with the confidence to work abroad whilst discouraging insularity and expanding their cultural capital

“If you learn a secondary language, you’re able to see the world through another set of eyes.”