At LEO Academy Trust, we see teaching MFL as a key part of not only developing our pupils’ language and communication skills but also providing them with the opportunity to understand other ways of living and to become more informed, tolerant and cultured global citizens.
We introduced an innovative approach to teaching languages across our schools in 2018 which saw all year 4 pupils learn Mandarin virtually.
We chose Mandarin for several reasons, not least that it is presumed to be the most spoken first language in the world, with more than one billion people speaking the dialect.
It provided a great chance for our pupils to improve their ability to communicate with people on the other side of the world and to understand a different culture. We also felt that living in a modern and diverse world, Mandarin was a good reflection of our student demographic.
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