french-curriculum-plan-2024-2025 - Key Knowledge - Scheme of Work

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French scheme of work outlining how pupils develop key French knowledge and skills across academic years 2022-2025, aligned from Year 3 up through Key Stage 2. It specifies lesson allocation (five lessons every half-term) and typical lesson length (45–50 minutes), and describes classroom support for delivering PPA cover. Year group coverage shifts each year, with Year 4/5/6 building in progression. The document lists specific learning targets across units such as greetings, adjectives, phonemes, classroom language, transport, genders/articles, and description topics like portraits and clothes.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryResearch & Report

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Pages4

Reading Time10 min

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Key Knowledge and Delivery Plan

Year-by-year curriculum coverage (2022–2025)

Lesson allocation and duration

Learning focus by topic (e.g., greetings, adjectives, phonemes)

Year 5 topics (portraits, clothes, numbers, festivals, weather)

French scheme of work 2024-2023: Key Knowledge We started using KAPOW’s scheme of work for French in September 2022. In 2022-2023 academic year, Year 4/5/6 all covered the Year 3 curriculum. In 2023-2024 academic year, Year 4 will cover the Year 3 curriculum while Year 5 and Year 6 will both cover the Year 4 curriculum. In 2024-2025, Year 4 will cover the Year 3 curriculum, Year 5 will cover the Year 4 curriculum and Year 6 will cover the Year 5 curriculum In this way Key Stage 2 children will build their knowledge and skills in French as they move through the school. Shabana Kauser to teach French lessons in all three year groups when she covers PPA. It is essential that allocation of 5 lessons are taught every half-term so that the French scheme of work is covered. Each lesson should be 45/50 minutes long. | | Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | | Summer 1 | | Summer 2 | | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Y4
Learning Y3
curriculum | French greetings with puppets
• To know that in French there are formal & informal greetings and when it is appropriate to use each one
• To know that different greetings are used at different times of the day
• To know that tone of voice can indicate a question
• To know that a cedilla is the tail mark under the cand that it changes the pronunciation of the c from a hard sound to a soft ‘s’ sound
• To know that French words are pronounced differently to the way they are spelt | French adjectives of colour, size and shape
• To know that a cognate is a word that is the same in both English & French e.g. un triangle
• To know that a nearcognate is a word that is very similar but not identical in French & English e.g. un cercle
• To know that adjectives of size are positioned in front of the noun in French e.g. un grand cercle
• To know that adjectives of colour are positioned after the noun in French e.g. un cercle bleu | French playground games
• To understand that I can use known vocabulary, cognates and near-cognates as clues to help me understand a text in French
• To know that sentences are often structured differently in French and English
• To know the sounds the common phonemes
• eu, oi, ou and ui make in French
• To know the names of some Parisian landmarks
• To know some French playground games | •
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that a space is needed before and after ? and ! To understand some of the similarities and differences between school in France and schools in the U. K. To understand that every French noun is either masculine or feminine
To know that the gender affects the form of the word unor une (the indefinite article)
To know that when we turn the statement j’ai un/une (I have a.. ) into a negative we change un/une to de | •
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To know the phonemes oi, au, in and on
To know that I need to change my intonation to ask and answer questions To know some French
Speaking countries around the world To understand that I can use a model sentence as a guide for building other sentences
To know that en is usually used as a preposition when the mode of transport you get into e.g. en train, whereas a is used when you are not getting into a form of transport e.g. a velo (a bicycle) | •
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To know that I can find the gender of a noun by looking it up in the dictionary where French nouns are followed by a gender indicator To know that a bilingual dictionary is a special dictionary to translate words from one language to another
To know that a bilingual is in two parts – one where the words are listed in French and the other where the words are in English To know that placing ne and pas around a verb makes the verb negative
To know that we use the definite article when describing something specific and that the one we use depends on

FAQs

How is the French scheme of work delivered across each half-term?

It requires five lessons taught every half-term so that the French scheme of work is fully covered.

What is the expected length of each French lesson?

Each lesson should be 45–50 minutes long.

How does the curriculum coverage change from 2023-2024 to 2024-2025?

In 2023-2024, Year 4 covers the Year 3 curriculum while Year 5 and Year 6 cover the Year 4 curriculum; in 2024-2025, Year 4 covers Year 3, Year 5 covers Year 4, and Year 6 covers Year 5.

Sep 29, 2026

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