At St. Richard’s our intent is to encourage pupils to embrace the value of learning languages and to have a strong appreciation of different cultures both within the college community and in the wider world. We aim to equip our learners to become confident linguists with strong oracy skills. 

To achieve our intent we provide pupils with a well planned and sequenced, well taught, broad and balanced curriculum. Pupils have opportunities to explore cultural learning and appreciation through our lessons and extra-curricular opportunities. Pupils are taught a wide range of vocabulary and grammar skills in order to enable them to communicate in another language.

At the core of our curriculum are the learning levers. Every MFL language lesson will have elements of the learning levers: modelling, retrieval practice, deliberate practice and live marking.