1. Intercultural Understanding
LSG meeting
Autumn term

2. Intercultural Understanding in the KS2 framework
Objectives from all year groups can be broadly grouped into the following themes:
Aspects of everyday life,
social conventions, greetings, courtesy, celebrations.
Geographical knowledge about the country/countries where the language is spoken
Representations of a culture
Its symbols, art, stories and role models

3. Addressing the Intercultural Understanding objectives
Through dedicated language lessons
Through other subject areas
Through themed days or weeks
Which approaches have you tried?
Which work best for particular themes or objectives?

4. ICU in the dedicated language lesson
Using video resources
Using authentic resources in the target language (e.g. stories and songs)
Teaching vocabulary linked to cultural events or geography of the country
Making contact with schools abroad
Talk through using resources like Early Start or BBC website. Also clips from Youtube of festivals in other countries and similar resources
Share a song and/or story e.g. trad French fables on the Northumberland grid. ‘Savez vous plantez les choux’ etc.

5. ICU across the curriculum
Geography
RE and PHSE PE
Geography – postcard activity – find where the places are on a map of France. Find counties on map
RE – celebrations activity
PE – traditional playground games,
- focus on Olympics – match flags, newspaper front pages, artefacts to countries hosting the Olympics, Essex ‘Carrying the flame’ resource

6. Themed days and weeks Food-tasting Art and music Famous landmarks
Plays and storytelling
Sports and games
School life