Urdu equips pupils to celebrate differences through the study of culture and traditions alongside developing lifelong transferable, key skills to become confident, fluent and eloquent individuals.
Our Urdu curriculum is designed around the three key pillars of knowledge: vocab, grammar and phonics which are developed through the four key skill areas of listening, speaking, reading and writing.
Pupils learn to speak confidently about themselves and their interests, while learning how to use the three tenses. Culture is taught throughout, as students engage in cultural discussions, allowing them to explore similarities and differences of new and different cultures.
Enrichment
Extra curriculum clubs are offered on a half termly basis, with the aim to develop students cultural understanding further.
Assessment
Assessments are carefully mapped to ensure pupils are not continually being assessed and so there is balance between assessment of all skills areas. These short assessments take place at the end of each topic.
KS4 Specification
Careers
Reference to careers are made throughout the French curriculum, particularly during the ‘work’ topic, where pupils get top learn about key jobs, explore characteristics required for jobs and discuss their future aspirations. This topic is also further developed at KS4.
Curriculum Overview
| Year | Cycle 1 | Cycle 2 | Cycle 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Year 7 | Greeting, changing shapes, joining position of different letters, number 1-20, colours, days of the week, animals, openers and endings, positive opinion, negative opinion, fruit and veg, weather/seasons | ||
| Year 8 | School holiday: What we visited, what I did, what I did using irregular, where I went Festivals: Understanding dates, opinions about festivals, describing a festival, detailed info about festivals, buying food at a market, what am I going to eat | Free time: Talking about TV programmes, digital technology, actors and actresses arranging trip to cinema, types of movies, time phrases, leisure activities, synonyms and verbs in perfect tense Where I live: Talking about where I live, describing where I live, what I do to help at home, describing the weather, what I do to help at home, daily routine | Sports: Talking about sport, giving opinions about sports, asking for directions, giving directions, what is necessary to be a champion, injuries and illnesses |
| Year 9 | Identity and culture: Revising family members, describing people, places in town, activities and times, talking about friends, talking about relationship, making arrangement to go out, describing night out with friends, talking about role model, when I was younger | Identity and culture: Leisure activities, films and going to the cinema, sports, using the internet, hobbies, TV programmes, describing a night out | Identity and culture: Talking about food and meals, discussing clothes and what to wear, daily routine, shopping for clothes, shopping for food, festivals and traditions, food at home vs special occasions, congratulations |