Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Listen carefully to instructions to build correct sequences of three to four colour blocks.
- Show their understanding by correctly identifying a described shape, drawing it in the air or pointing on the board.
- Recognise cognates, finding shapes that they are asked for.
- Use please and thank you.
- Describe some of the shapes in their work using language of colour, size or shape.
- Correctly select a decoration described to them by its colour.
- Use software to produce artwork in the style of Matisse.
Suggested prior learning
Y3/4 (A): Unit 1: French greetings with puppets
Get startedLessons
Y3/4 (A): Lesson 1: Colours in French
Y3/4 (A): Lesson 2: Sizes and shapes in French
Y3/4 (A): Lesson 3: Using shapes like the French artist, Matisse
Y3/4 (A): Lesson 4: In the style of the French artist, Matisse
Y3/4 (A): Lesson 5: Inspired by Matisse’s French ‘Christmas Night’ window
Key skills
Year 3
- Asking and/or answering
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Key knowledge
- To know that a
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Key vocabulary
rouge – red
bleu – blue
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Unit resources
Assessment – French Y3/4 (A): French adjectives of colour, size and shape
Assessment resources for this unit. Use
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Knowledge organiser
Knowledge organiser for the Year 3
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Unit vocabulary
Subject resources
French: Long-term plans
A suggested order for teaching French
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National curriculum mapping
Showing each of the National curriculum's
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French: Pupil progression of skills
Progression documents showing how skills and
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Equipment list
A list of suggested resources for
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Condensed | Assessment
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Cross-curricular opportunities
Art & design
‘Pupils should be taught:
- about great artists, architects and designers in history.’