Using the KS2 Framework

The Key Stage 2 Framework for Languages sets out the rationale for language learning in primary schools and defines the skills, knowledge and understanding that children should develop as they begin their language learning apprenticeship.

The Framework is based on sound principles of primary pedagogy. It sets out learning objectives across five strands, Oracy, Literacy, Intercultural Understanding, Knowledge about Language and Language Learning Strategies. It is inclusive and for all children. It recognises that language is central to the development of individual identity and that education in language and culture plays a vital part in shaping the future of our world community.

Intercultural understanding

Intercultural Understanding can be developed in many areas of the curriculum but it is in learning another language and making contact with a different language community either directly or through videoconferencing and the internet that children have perhaps the richest and deepest opportunities to develop a real sense of their own cultural identity and an appreciation and understanding of the cultures of others.