French
We are fortunate to have a specialist French teacher on our staff team who teaches French across the school from Year 3 to Year 6, enabling all children to develop their linguistic skills from a young age.
Modern Foreign Languages
Since 2014, language learning has been made compulsory in primary schools in England for children aged 7 to 11. This means that at Townley, children in KS2 (Years 3,4,5 and 6) have a French lesson usually once a week.
All lessons look at the four skills involved in the learning of any language (Speaking, Listening, Reading and Writing) but also at how the language works through the teaching of grammar. However, what I value most of all is the children having a go and trying their best.
French is spoken as a first language in France, western Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the province of Québec and the Acadia region in Canada, the north of the U.S. state of Louisiana, and by various communities elsewhere.