This month, foreign-language teaching has become a compulsory part of the primary school curriculum for the first time. Isabel de Bertodano looks at how schools are adapting to the new government requirements
When the six-year-old pupils at St Mary’s Catholic Primary in Lowestoft returned to school this month, they were introduced to a new subject: French. Through a programme of singing, acting and storytelling, using books such as La chenille affamée (“The Very Hungry Caterpillar”) and other translations of old favourites, Juliana Lee opens a new world to her pupils. “They enjoy it – it’s not so strange to them to hear words they don’t recognise, they absorb it,” says Lee. In fact, pupils at the school in East Anglia are somewhat ah
18 September 2014, The Tablet
French without fears
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