MFL Faculty
Key Stage 3
Y7
Most of you will have experience of learning a language in your primary school and many of you might already have learnt some French. In Y7 at Endeavour we will build on your experience of language-learning and accelerate your progress in French.
Y8 and Y9
You will continue with the various language-learning activities in pairs, in groups and individually to deepen your knowledge of French until, in Y9, you will be given the opportunity to be entered for listening and reading exams in French, which will count as half a GCSE qualification.
Key Stage 4
You will be able to choose to continue with your language-learning in French to gain a full GCSE qualification.
There are many reasons to continue to learn another language:
- Not everyone speaks English! Only 6.5% of the world’s population speaks English as their first language and only 25% understand it.
- Nearly three quarters of the British public think everyone should speak a foreign language, but only a third chooses to do so.
- There is a wider range of career opportunities in Europe and some employers pay up to 20% extra for those who can speak another language.
- One in five exporting companies says they are losing business because of language barriers.
- Even the government agrees that it’s important and has set up a National Languages Strategy.
- Most importantly, it’s fun! Use it on holiday, in your future career or just to do something different.
