At Christ Church, we want our children to love languages.  A high-quality Latin curriculum will provide pupils with a solid foundation for learning further languages, as they move into Key Stage 3, in addition to enriching their current knowledge of the English language both in reading and writing.

It will equip our children with linguistic knowledge, cultural capital, vocabulary and provide purposeful links to other topics in the national curriculum, which will foster pupils’ curiosity and deepen their understanding of the world.  

Pupils will be taught to: 

• Listen attentively to spoken language and show understanding by joining in and responding 
• Explore the patterns and sounds of language through songs and rhymes and link the spelling, sound and meaning of words
• Speak in sentences, using familiar vocabulary, phrases and basic language structures
• Read carefully and show understanding of words, phrases and simple writing
• Appreciate stories, songs, poems and rhymes in the language
• Broaden their vocabulary and develop their ability to understand new words that are introduced into familiar written material, including through using a dictionary
• Write phrases from memory, and adapt these to create new sentences, to express ideas clearly
• Describe people, places, things and actions in writing
• 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.

KEY STAGE ONE

In Key Stage 1, the National Curriculum states that we do at have to cover a foreign language bu at Christ Church, Year 1 and Year 2 will have weekly 20-minute lessons.  This will be an excellent foundation for Key Stage 2. The lessons will be oral and will cover the following topics:

• - Greetings
• - Colours
• - Numbers
• - Weather
• - Animals
• - Body parts

They will also get a chance to listen to popular myths and legends.

KEY STAGE TWO

The teaching of KS2 Latin will happen on a weekly basis in 45-minute lessons. Each half-term. there will be a new unit.  Each unit of work will be planned to build on prior learning and provide a foundation for the next unit. Additionally, at the start of each lesson, prior learning will be reviewed to consolidate knowledge and commit learning to long-term memory.