Welcome to Modern Foreign Languages at Holly Hill.

Subject Intent

General Statement
At Holly Hill we believe that a quality MFL curriculum should broaden the horizons of pupils, opening their minds to other cultures and encouraging a mutual respect for people from different backgrounds. We believe that by learning an additional language, it deepens pupil’s understanding of grammatical structures and etymology of their own language, while also providing the foundations for learning further languages in later life.
 

The MFL curriculum at Holly Hill enables children to practise speaking and listening skills that will benefit them across the curriculum. Pupils will have the opportunity to learn vocabulary and phrases that are meaningful for real life (e.g. ordering at a café), linked to their specific topic (e.g. space) and that will give them a valuable foundation for the KS3 languages curriculum.

Through our MFL curriculum we make links to our whole school curriculum intent statement. The aspects which are particularly significant to MFL are:

• Balance of knowledge and skills
• Diversity
• Rich vocabulary and quality texts
• Preparation for adult life and work

Specific Aims

The National Curriculum outlines the following aims for MFL:

• understand and respond to spoken and written language from a variety of authentic sources
• speak with increasing confidence, fluency and spontaneity, finding ways of communicating what they want to say, including through discussion and asking questions, and continually improving the accuracy of their pronunciation and intonation
• can write at varying length, for different purposes and audiences, using the variety of grammatical structures that they have learnt
• discover and develop an appreciation of a range of writing in the language studied