As we've mentioned above, each year group in KS2 at Glebe focusses on a different country that speaks French either as an official or an unofficial language:
Year 3 - France
Year 4 - Martinique
Year 5 - Morocco
Year 6 - Canada
To immerse our children in the impact of French culture globally, every half term the children will have one lesson in which they learn something interesting about their French speaking country. To make our learning as relevant as possible, teachers will always try to link this to their current topic to explore that in a different context. Whenever this is possible, this learning really adds an extra dimension to the children's depth of understanding about their topic. For example, when Year 6 learn about Word War II they learn about how Canada were involved in it in more detail. When Year 3's topic learning is about the sea, they find out about Jacques Cousteau, the famous French diver, explorer and marine biologist.
At Glebe it is our mission to make learning happen in a real context, one that can be explored by our pupils in a meaningful way. By adding this extra to our French curriculum, we allow our pupils to see that French is a real language that is spoken widely across the world. They can also see that by learning to speak French, they open the door to becoming a true, global citizen.