Intent
Following the national curriculum for Latin, our intent is that all our children will:
Head
- 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.
- Use Latin to support vocabulary development
- Have a deeper understanding of grammatical structures in English and foreign languages.
Heart
- Foster a love of learning by appreciating stories, songs, poems and rhymes in the language.
- Demonstrate a love of Latin and gain more confidence from being able to read and speak Latin.
- Be curious and fascinated by other languages.
- Learn to have a deeper appreciation of other cultures and countries. Show appreciation to the difficulty in speaking other languages than your first language.
Hand
- Engage in conversations; ask and answer questions; express opinions and respond to those of others; seek clarification and help.
- Speak in sentences, using familiar vocabulary, phrases and basic language structures.
- Develop accurate pronunciation and intonation so that others understand when they are reading aloud or using familiar words and phrases.
- Present ideas and information orally to a range of audiences.
- Read carefully and show understanding of words, phrases and simple writing.
- Write phrases from memory, and adapt these to create new sentences, to express ideas clearly.
- Describe people, places, things and actions orally and in writing.
