Salve et gratissimum (Hello and welcome)
At Heartwood CE VC Primary School, we promote a love of learning languages and a fascination for how language works. We teach the AFL (Ancient Foreign Language) Latin throughout KS2.
We teach Latin as:
• it offers the opportunity to reinforce the teaching of English vocabulary and grammar
• the language lends itself to a systematic and effective style of teaching
• Latin is a logical step after phonics, reinforcing the notion of structure and pattern in language
• it provides a paradigm for language learning in KS3 and beyond, and enables the learning of other romance languages such as Spanish and French
• teaching the subject allows insights into myth and other cultural aspects that form the basis of modern Western culture
Intent
Our aims of teaching Latin in KS2 are for children to:
* 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
* engage in conversations; ask and answer questions; express opinions and respond to those of others
* speak in sentences, using familiar vocabulary, phrases and basic language structures
* read carefully and show understanding of words, phrases and simple writing
*appreciate stories, songs, poems and rhymes in the language
* broaden their vocabulary and develop their ability to understand new words that are introduced into familiar written material, including through using a dictionary
*write phrases from memory, and adapt these to create new sentences, to express ideas clearly
* describe people, places, things and actions in writing
* understand basic grammar appropriate to the language being studied, including (where relevant): feminine, masculine and neuter forms and the conjugation of high-frequency verbs; key features and patterns of the language; how to apply these, for instance, to build sentences; and how these differ from or are similar to English.
Implementation
Latin is taught weekly in KS2, using Minimus. Minimus is a story-based Latin course for primary pupils based around two textbooks - Minimus and Minimus Secundus.
LATIN PROGRESSION MAP
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| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
1st year of Latin | To learn to say hello and goodbye, ‘I am’ in Latin
To learn about nouns in Latin
To read and translate a Roman letter
To listen to the story of Perseus and Medusa | To learn about adjectives and how they agree with their noun | To explore the Latin roots of English words
Food lesson
To read and translate a Latin story containing adjectives
To listen to the story of Daedalus & Icarus
To encounter inflected Latin verbs | To categorise Latin verbs based on their endings
To translate Latin verbs
To read and translate a Latin story containing verbs with different personal endings
To listen to the story of Pandora | (1) To recap all six personal verb endings (present tense) (2) To recap adjectival agreement
To learn about writing in Roman times
To listen to the story of Echo & Narcissus
To identify adverbs and know their function in English and Latin | (1) To understand how the Romans regarded the Britons (2) To identify Latin adverbs and find English derivatives
To translate a Latin story containing nouns, verbs and adjectives
To translate Latin noun-adjective sentences containing novel vocabulary
To associate English derivatives with their Latin root word |
2nd year of Latin | To recap noun-adjective agreement
To learn how Latin expresses imperative verbs (singular and plural)
To associate English derivatives with their Latin root word
To translate a Latin story containing adverbs
| To encounter and recognise Latin adverbs
To learn about Roman baths To translate a Latin story containing imperative verbs
(1) To put on a Latin play set at the doctor's (2) To read the story of Odysseus and the Cyclops
| To translate a Latin story containing questions
To write a letter from a Roman soldier's point of view
To encounter Latin prepositions
To translate a Latin story containing conjunctions | To understand the role of conjunctions in Latin
To translate a Latin story and find English derivatives from the vocabulary
To translate a Latin story containing subject and object nouns
To understand the difference between subject and object nouns | To translate a Latin story containing subject and object nouns
To learn about Roman tombstones
To translate a Latin story | To learn about the Roman gods
To translate a Latin story |
3rd year of Latin | To translate a Latin story
To recap verb endings | To understand noun-adjective agreement
To explore Latin roots
To understand adverbs | To translate a Latin story containing personal pronouns
To understand infinitives and impersonal verbs
To learn about Roman roads | To learn about Eboracum and find out about Roman craft and technology
To translate a Latin story and recap knowledge of impersonal verbs
To translate a Latin story containing personal pronouns
To research 'mal' derivations | To translate a Latin story containing impersonal verbs
To identify Latin words by word class
To complete a comprehension on A Letter From Dacia | To translate a Latin story containing object nouns
To work on subject and object endings
To find out about Saturnalia
To work on plural object endings |
4th year of Latin | To translate a Latin story containing imperatives
To learn more about imperatives
To manipulate Latin imperatives and negative imperatives
To translate the Latin story of Romulus & Remus | To translate a Latin story containing the imperfect tense
To learn more about the imperfect tense
To translate a Latin story about Delphi
To translate sentences containing the imperfect | To translate a Latin story containing forms of the verb 'to be'
To translate a Latin story containing forms of the verb 'to be'
To translate a story containing esse compound verbs
To learn more about esse compound verbs | To learn about hunting and hunting vocabulary
To translate a story containing participles
To learn more about participles
To read and illustrate the Judgement of Paris
| To translate a story containing several parts of speech
To find out about Roman forts
To practice vocabulary and adjectives
| To revise aspects of grammar and vocabulary
To translate a story
To translate and perform a Latin play scene |
Impact
After the implementation of Minimum, pupils should leave school equipped with alinguistic foundation for reading comprehension and an appreciation of classical civilisation. A linguistic foundation in ancient languages should support the study of modern languages at key stage 3. The expected impact of teaching Latin will be that pupils have met the aims named above in the intent.