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Training Date and Name of
Trainer
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PRIMARY FRENCH PROJECT
PARTNERSHIP
Projet de français pour le Primaire
Primary French Project
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The Primary French Project
The Primary French Project is a collaboration between
•The Association for Language Learning (ALL)
•Network for Languages
•Institut français du Royaume-Uni (IFRU)
The purpose of the Primary French Project is to support
any primary school in the UK that wishes to teach
French throughout Key Stage 2 as part of the statutory
curriculum.
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The Primary French Project
French teaching materials for use in the KS2 classroom
have the following aims:
to exemplify the Programme of Study for Languages in
Key Stage 2
to train teachers with little or no knowledge of French
(language and methodology)
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The Primary French Project
The materials support all teachers of French in KS2 by:
providing class teaching materials that develop the teacher’s
subject knowledge (French language and culture);
saving planning time - all materials include half-termly planning
and weekly lesson plans;
saving preparation time - all materials include easy-to-use
PowerPoint presentations to enable teachers to deliver each lesson
through the interactive whiteboard, together with printable picture
cards and word cards, and links to French story books on line;
providing exemplification of the Programme of Study for
Languages in KS2, with strong links to literacy;
providing a scaffolding for linguistic progression throughout KS2.
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Primary French Project Training
Although the Primary
French Project
materials can be used
to teach children,
their core purpose
is to be a
mechanism that
trains the teacher.
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Primary French Project Training
By using the
materials to teach
children, the
teacher’s subject
knowledge is
developed in terms of
vocabulary, linguistic
progression,
grammar,
pronunciation,
intonation and
spelling, as well as
cultural knowledge.
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Primary French Project Training
Primary French
training is developed
over a minimum of
four years, starting
with niveau bleu,
then moving on to
niveau blanc, niveau
rouge and niveau
tricolore.
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Y6
niveau
tricolore
Y5 niveau rouge
Y4
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Y3
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Primary French Project Training
A complete course of KS2 French
training comprises:
1st year of training - use niveau bleu
materials to teach children in year 3;
2nd year of training - use niveau blanc
materials to teach children in year 4;
3rd year of training - use niveau rouge
materials to teach children in year 5;
4th year of training - use niveau
tricolore materials to teach children in
year 6.
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Y6
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Y5 niveau rouge
Y4
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Y3
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Primary French Project Training
Primary French training at
each level is achieved as
the teacher uses the
materials for a minimum of
one school year for:
planning
delivery
assessment
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Primary French Project Training
Training for secondary
teachers is identified as
niveau multicolore, and
this is designed to help
secondary teachers to
understand the primary
experience and to build
upon it in Key Stage 3 and
beyond.
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KS2
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Primary French Project Training
Training at each level begins
when the Primary French
materials are introduced by
means of a one-day course to
teachers, subject leaders,
headteachers, governors,
advisors or trainers.
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Y5 niveau rouge
Y4
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Y3
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Primary French Project Training
The materials can then be
disseminated and used in
schools by any practitioner or
trainer who has attended the
initial training day, or who has
been introduced to the materials
by a colleague who has attended
the initial training day.
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Y6
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Y5 niveau rouge
Y4
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Y3
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Primary French Project Training
The introductory training days
are run throughout the country
by Network for Languages. For
details of training events in your
region, please see
www.culturetheque.org.uk, or
contact your local Network for
Languages Centre.
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Primary French Project Training
Primary schools are strongly
encouraged to become members
of the Association for Language
Learning. ALL Primary Hubs
across the country will offer
focussed support that can help
teachers to further develop their
subject knowledge, and their
confidence in the classroom.
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Primary French Project Accreditation
Delegates who attend the
introductory training day receive
an attendance certificate.
Teachers who use the materials
as recommended, to teach
French to children throughout a
whole school year, may
download a certificate, as
evidence that they have
completed the training at the
corresponding level.
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Primary French Project Training
KS2 practitioners
should start at
niveau bleu level,
before moving on
to niveau blanc,
niveau rouge and
niveau tricolore.
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niveau
tricolore
Y5 niveau rouge
Y4
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Primary French Project Training
The full length of training
for KS2 French is a
minimum of four years.
Full training in one level or
“niveau” should be
completed before moving
to the next level. For
example, teachers should
complete niveau bleu
before embarking on
niveau blanc.
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Y6
niveau
tricolore
Y5 niveau rouge
Y4
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Y3
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Training Log
A downloadable log and a
digital information pack are
currently being developed
and will be available on
Culturethèque from June
2014.
The log will help schools to
provide evidence of training
and development in terms of
primary French teaching.
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Continuity KS2-KS3
Training and support for
secondary teachers of
French will be offered as
part of the project, to
enable secondary
teachers to build on
children’s prior learning.
This level of training is
known as niveau
multicolore.
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Continuity KS2-KS3
A similar log for secondary
schools will be
downloadable from
Culturethèque from
Autumn 2014. The log will
help secondary MFL
departments to show how
they are building upon
children’s prior learning in
French.
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Culturethèque
The Primary French Project materials are all
downloadable from the Culturethèque website.
The Training Logs will also be there from Autumn 2014.
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Email
primaryfrench@institutfrancais.org.uk
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Purpose of PFF materials 1
To exemplify the
Programme of
Study, including
progression in each
year group, and
throughout Key
Stage 2
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Purpose of PFF materials 2
To train the teacher by developing
knowledge of the French language and
how to teach it in Key Stage 2
• save planning time
by providing easy-tofollow lesson plans
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Purpose of PFF materials 2
To train the teacher by developing
knowledge of the French language and
how to teach it in Key Stage 2
• save preparation time by
providing easy-to-use
PowerPoint presentations
for the whiteboard that
include images and voice
recordings
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Purpose of PFF materials 2
To train the teacher by developing
knowledge of the French language and
how to teach it in Key Stage 2
• support practitioners who
have little or no subject
knowledge, by providing
planning and teaching
materials that will help to
build subject knowledge
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Purpose of PFF materials 2
To train the teacher by developing
knowledge of the French language and
how to teach it in Key Stage 2
• support practitioners with
little or no knowledge of
French by including all
necessary sound
recordings
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Nounours !
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Purpose of PFF materials 2
To train the teacher by developing
knowledge of the French language and
how to teach it in Key Stage 2
• provide user-friendly
teaching materials in short
lessons (15 mins) – not
daunting - will not demand
much time in a busy
curriculum
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Purpose of PFF materials 2
To train the teacher by developing
knowledge of the French language and
how to teach it in Key Stage 2
• provide what is
necessary to enable
the teacher to start
teaching French
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• for practitioners who
haven’t yet started
• materials exemplify
PoS for KS2 children
starting French, or in
year 3
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Transition KS2-KS3
• Secondary languages
teachers will also be
supported by the
Primary French
Project
• Martine Pillette will
run training to support
transition
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Programme
of Study
Languages –
Purpose of Study
Learning a foreign
language is a liberation
from insularity and
provides an opening to
other cultures. A highquality languages
education should foster
pupils’ curiosity and
deepen their
understanding of the
world.
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Programme
of Study
Languages –
Purpose of Study
The teaching should
enable pupils to
express their ideas
and thoughts in
another language and
to understand and
respond to its
speakers, both in
speech and in writing.
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Programme
of Study
Languages –
Purpose of Study
It should also provide
opportunities for them
to communicate for
practical purposes,
learn new ways of
thinking and read great
literature in the original
language.
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Programme
of Study
Languages –
Purpose of Study
Language teaching
should provide the
foundation for
learning further
languages,
equipping pupils to
study and work in
other countries.
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Programme
of Study
Languages – Aims
The national curriculum for languages aims to ensure that
all pupils:
 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.
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Programme
of Study
Subject Content – KS2
Teaching may be of any modern or
ancient foreign language and should focus
on enabling pupils to make substantial
progress in one language. The teaching
should provide an appropriate balance of
spoken and written language and should
lay the foundations for further foreign
language teaching at key stage 3.
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Programme
of Study
Subject Content – KS2
It should enable pupils to understand and
communicate ideas, facts and feelings in
speech and writing, focused on familiar
and routine matters, using their knowledge
of phonology, grammatical structures and
vocabulary.
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Programme
of Study
Subject Content – KS2
• The focus of study in modern languages will
be on practical communication. If an ancient
language is chosen the focus will be to provide a
linguistic foundation for reading comprehension
and an appreciation of classical civilisation.
Pupils studying ancient languages may take part
in simple oral exchanges, while discussion of
what they read will be conducted in English. A
linguistic foundation in ancient languages may
support the study of modern languages at key
stage 3.
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Pupils should be taught to
Programme
of Study
• listen attentively to spoken language and
show understanding by joining in and
responding
Using the niveau bleu materials, teachers are given opportunities to help children
achieve the following objectives:
listen attentively to language spoken by the teacher, modelled by voice recordings from
the whiteboard, audio CDs or DVD.
practise using vocabulary and structures introduced through the whiteboard, picture
cards, text cards and real objects.
show understanding using non-verbal physical response (e.g. responding to classroom
instructions); by speaking in chorus (listening and repeating); by speaking alone (listening
and repeating); by asking and answering questions in chorus or individually in whole-class
context, or in pairs or small groups).
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Pupils should be taught to
Programme
of Study
• explore the patterns and sounds of language
through songs and rhymes and link the spelling,
sound and meaning of words
Using the niveau bleu materials, teachers are given opportunities to help children achieve the following
objectives:
 ask how something is spelt
 be able to spell certain words, such as names of capital cities.
 listen to stories, and join in with finger rhymes and songs.
 identify the phoneme [y] and its grapheme ‘u’.
 identify the phoneme [ɛ]̃ and its grapheme ‘un’.
 identify the phoneme [e] and its graphemes ‘é’, ‘er’ and ‘ez’.
 know that the final consonant in a word is usually silent, e.g. Paris, Irlande du Nord, Pays de
Galles.
 find out about vowels and consonants in French, English and Welsh
find out about the ligature ‘œ’ and be able to identify it when you see and hear it
 know that the circumflex accent can appear over any vowel
 know that the circumflex accent can show that historically there used to be a double vowel, or
that a consonant has disappeared from the word.
 know that the acute accent appears only over the letter ‘e’, and changes the pronunciation of the
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Pupils should be taught to
Programme
of Study
• engage in conversations; ask and answer
questions; express opinions and respond to
those of others; seek clarification and help
Using the niveau bleu materials, teachers are given opportunities to help children
achieve the following objectives:
exchange greetings with the teacher, other adults and children.
understand and give personal information such as name, age and where you live.
ask and answer questions about capital cities, e.g. Quelle est la capitale de la
France ?
be able to use the response words Oui and Non
be able to understand questions using C’est + noun?
be able to answer questions using Oui or Non, coupled with c’est + noun.
be able to ask and answer questions using number labels
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Pupils should be taught to
Programme
of Study
• speak in sentences, using familiar
vocabulary, phrases and basic language
structures
Using the niveau bleu materials, teachers are given opportunities to help children
achieve the following objectives:
 be able to use templates to create spoken sentences about landmarks in Belfast,
Cardiff, Edinburgh, London and Paris.
 be able to use a speaking frame to ask and answer a variety of questions
 be able to form spoken sentences about Paris and cities across the UK, using an
adverbial opener, a verb, nouns and a conjunction.
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Pupils should be taught to
Programme
of Study
• develop accurate pronunciation and intonation
so that others understand when they are
reading aloud or using familiar words and
phrases
Using the niveau bleu materials, teachers are given opportunities to help children
achieve the following objectives:
 understand the importance of accurate pronunciation and intonation.
 know that intonation describes how we can use our voice to help convey meaning
in a sentence, and can highlight aspects of grammatical structure.
 know that a statement can be turned into a question using tone of voice.
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Pupils should be taught to
Programme
of Study
• present ideas and information orally to a
range of audiences
Using the niveau bleu materials, teachers are given opportunities to help children
achieve the following objectives:
 be able to exchange personal information, and talk about familiar places, in pairs
and small groups, in front of the class, or to a larger group such as in school
assembly.
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Pupils should be taught to
Programme
of Study
• read carefully and show understanding of
words, phrases and simple writing.
Using the niveau bleu materials, teachers are given opportunities to help children
achieve the following objectives:
 read aloud familiar vocabulary and structures, with accurate pronunciation and
intonation.
 read and understand short texts containing familiar vocabulary and structures,
e.g. aspects of personal information, and descriptions of places.
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Pupils should be taught to
Programme
of Study
• appreciate stories, songs, poems and
rhymes in the language
Using the niveau bleu materials, teachers are given opportunities to help children
achieve the following objectives:
 listen to stories, and take part in finger rhymes and songs.
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Pupils should be taught to
Programme
of Study
• broaden their vocabulary and develop their
ability to understand new words that are
introduced into familiar written material,
including through using a dictionary.
Using the niveau bleu materials, teachers are given opportunities to help children
achieve the following objectives:
 know that a bilingual dictionary contains equivalent words in two languages.
 know that, in a dictionary, headwords are listed in alphabetical order.
 know how to sort words into alphabetical order by their first letter.
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Pupils should be taught to
Programme
of Study
• write phrases from memory, and adapt
these to create new sentences, to express
ideas clearly
Using the niveau bleu materials, teachers are given opportunities to help children
achieve the following objectives:
 use a template or picture clues to write sentences and short texts, e.g. brief
details of personal information and descriptions of places.
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Pupils should be taught to
Programme
of Study
• describe people, places, things and
actions orally* and in writing
Using the niveau bleu materials, teachers are given opportunities to help children
achieve the following objectives:
 be able to give brief details of personal information orally and in writing.
 be able to describe countries, cities and landmarks orally and in writing.
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Pupils should be taught to
Programme
of Study
• understand basic grammar appropriate to the language being studied,
including (where relevant): feminine, masculine and neuter forms and the
conjugation of high-frequency verbs; key features and patterns of the
language; how to apply these, for instance, to build sentences; and how
these differ from or are similar to English.
Using the niveau bleu materials, teachers are given opportunities to help children achieve the
following objectives:
•be able to apply punctuation correctly: comma, full stop and question mark.
•know that, in written sentences, a comma is used to separate words in a series, and to
represent intonation present in spoken language.
•know that the first word in a sentence is given a capital letter.
•know that the names of towns, countries, rivers, landmarks and people are given a capital
letter.
•know that nouns are types of words that can name people, places or things.
•know that a proper noun is a name given to individual people or places.
•be familiar with a range of proper nouns, e.g. la France, Paris, Nora, la Seine.
•understand that a verb can express an action or a state of being in a sentence
•be able to use certain verbs in sentences: the verb il y a; part of the verb ‘to be’ in the
phrase C’est…? and C’est… ; verbs in questions and statements about personal information,
e.g. Je m’appelle Nounours, j’habite à Paris, j’ai sept ans.
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Pupils should be taught to
Programme
of Study
• understand basic grammar appropriate to the language being studied,
including (where relevant): feminine, masculine and neuter forms and the
conjugation of high-frequency verbs; key features and patterns of the
language; how to apply these, for instance, to build sentences; and how
these differ from or are similar to English.
Using the niveau bleu materials, teachers are given opportunities to help children achieve the
following objectives:
•understand that an adverb is a word or phrase that tells us more about the time, place or
manner of the action described in the rest of the sentence; it tells us more about the verb.
•be able to use an adverbial phrase as a sentence opener, e.g. À Paris, À Londres;
•understand that when an adverbial phrase is used as a sentence opener, it must be followed
by a comma.
•be able to use the adverb aussi.
•know that a conjunction can link together two words or phrases.
•be able to use the conjunctions ou and et to link words or phrases.
•know which preposition to use when talking about countries, e.g. en France, au Pays de
Galles.
•be able to identify the definite article le, la, l’, les.
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Niveau bleu training aims
• Exemplify new PoS KS2 (not a SoW)
• Support teachers / practitioners with little
or no French (learn the language as you
teach)
• Support teachers / practitioners with
excellent French to teach in an ageappropriate way (Vygotsky – see through
eyes of the children)
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Niveau bleu training aims
• Not daunting in terms of language
competence or confidence
• Each lesson 15 mins x2 (Little time in the
curriculum)
• Half Term: 5 lessons, 1 story, 1 song, 1
finger rhyme
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