' One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way.' Franck Smith.
We are fortunate that many children in our school already function very well in two languages. This ability to communicate is to be celebrated.
The modern foreign language that we focus on at HJS is French.
The emphasis on language teaching is on activities that encourage the language to be spoken, taking priority over reading and writing in the language.
The themes covered in each year group are shown below, and Learning Guides for each year group to aid knowledge retention can be viewed on each year group's Class Pages.
Year 3
Introducing me.
Shades and colours.
My Body
Meet My family.
Year 4
Food and Drink
Counting
Spectacular sports.
Time
Year 5
Where in the world?
Time.
Amazing animals.
Describing our aliens.
Year 6
Classy creatures.
Weather.
A day out.
School Life.
