Our approach to the mixed-age French curriculum 

This printable PDF document provides a detailed overview of Kapow Primary’s French mixed-age scheme of work, designed to support mixed-age settings arranged into Y3/4 and Y5/6 classes.

The plan organises D&T units into a rolling two-year programme across KS2, with Cycle A and Cycle B units taught alternatively. This enables teachers to confidently deliver a mixed-age French scheme aligned with the National curriculum.

What does Kapow Primary’s French mixed-age plan contain?

The plan outlines the progression of skills and knowledge in French, ensuring that pupils build upon their learning each year in a spiral curriculum.

It covers the statutory requirements of the National curriculum, details the French skills and knowledge taught and offers guidance on primary French assessment and implementing the mixed-age scheme.

How does Kapow Primary’s French scheme develop knowledge and skills?

This document provides a suggested long-term plan for mixed-age year groups, ensuring a clear pathway for pupil learning. Progression is broken down into the following key areas:

• Phonics – becoming familiar with key French phonemes, spelling and pronunciation.
• Vocabulary – introducing commonly-used words; memorising high-frequency keywords.
• Grammar – systematically learning French grammar and applying it in a variety of contexts; practising grammar structures in speaking, writing, reading and listening activities.
• Language comprehension (listening and reading) – applying knowledge of phonics, vocabulary and grammar; decoding what the children hear and read more accurately and efficiently using a range of strategies.
• Language production (speaking and writing) – applying what the children have learnt across other knowledge strands to speak and write in French.
• Cultural awareness – learning about French food, celebrations, festivals, art and French-speaking countries around the world.

What other Kapow Primary resources support primary French teaching?

• If you follow the mixed-age French scheme, see the corresponding French: Progression of skills and knowledge – mixed-age version.
• If you follow our French: Long-term plan – condensed, see the French: Progression of skills and knowledge – condensed.
• Explore more of Kapow’s French scheme by browsing all our Mixed-age units for both Cycle A and Cycle B.