What is the impact of KS2 language learning initiatives on the KS3 curriculum?
Most headteachers, heads of department, teachers and pupils in the case study schools approved of the principle of teaching languages in primary schools. Teachers and headteachers felt a lack of consistency at present in foreign language provision in primary schools in terms of amount of language teaching taking place, the language being taught and the ways in which it was taught. Involvement of secondary languages departments with the primary languages initiative was not widespread, but secondary teachers focused more on learning from primary schools in e.g. primary methodology in the second round of case study. Both surveys suggested that the level of impact of KS2 language learning on the Year 7 languages curriculum remained low. Teachers voiced strong concerns about managing progression and Year 7 mixed experience class. There was little evidence from the case study data that the methodology of KS3 teaching was being affected by the introduction of language teaching in primary scho
