Sudbury Primary School

2019 - 2020

The curriculum

Languages is a compulsory subject for KS2 under the 2014 Curriculum. 

We aim to promote enjoyment of language learning, encouraging active use through story-telling, songs, dialogues, games and drama in our lessons. 

Native Languages 

Sudbury staff members celebrating their native languages

Video

Last month we hosted a student teacher from Réunion Island, a French department in the Indian Ocean. Madame Lagay supported groups of children in the French lessons, read with them and made a presentation about La Réunion. Hosting a French student teacher raises the international profile of our school, fosters pupils’ curiosity and deepen their understanding of the world.

Useful links for home learning

Ask Madame Rivas for the login to linguafun, our language learning site where children can enjoy practising the language they have learned in class through a variety of activities.

If you would like to play more games to help support our learning at school, check the following websites: 

Linguafun

Primary games arena

Crickweb French

Bonjour de France

Previous Years Highlights

Partner schools

We regularly work on joint projects with our three French partner schools. 

In 2016, we met our pen pals from Cherbourg

Celebrating languages

We participate in international projects with other schools in Europe to mark the European Day of Languages.  Every year we organise a French day.

European Day of Languages cards from an International Project

French Day

Ms. Rivas was awarded the Primary Language Teacher of the year 2017 for her creative teaching approaches with well developed CLIL (cross curricular) lessons, for having a good sense of pupils progress linked to the curriculum, teaching lessons which are very popular (favourite subject for two years in a whole school pupil survey), and for presenting workshops at different languages conferences as well as sharing ideas freely via her blog.

Our videos