Our intention with this project is to increase the language skills of our staff to enable them to meet the requirements at Key stage 2 and allow us to introduce Spanish throughout the rest of our school. We want to develop links with children in Spanish Schools and develop our curriculum to give real and meaningful opportunities for learning. We want to develop strategies for language teaching that embrace our ‘challenge curriculum’ principles, increase understanding of other cultures and embed the idea of global citizenship. We also want to look at sporting connections between our communities and use this as a way of engaging all learners. We want to close gap in attainment and prepare children better to go on to high school to study MFL. Improving the attainment of young people with low basic skills in Maths, Science and Literacy is the core objective for Flowery Field School. We would like to particularly focus project on these children and use language learning as a way to build their self-esteem, leading to better attainment in other areas. We want to embed and promote the current school initiative of using ‘Learning Powers’. By using a pedagogy which celebrates different learning strategies, children will develop an awareness of how they learn a new language and will be able to become more literate in recognising and flexing their learning muscles. We are also interested in looking at the use of Makaton when teaching Spanish and improving transition between KS2 and KS3. We want to promote the inclusion and celebration of EAL / bilingual children and enhance the Social, Moral, Spiritual and Cultural objectives of the school by broadening intercultural understanding and ensuring that there is an international dimension to learning. We will take a whole school approach to this project and will work together to achieve our aims. We would like to develop a two-year project, resulting in improvements in the teaching and learning of languages and embedding of the international dimension across the school. We want every aspect of our school life to contribute towards our ethos of celebrating language learning and cultural diversity. As part of this project, we would like to involve a large number of our staff in mobility activities to Spain. They will take part in structured training courses focus specifically on the needs of primary schools. We intend to involve members of staff from all key stages (including EYFS) and from different backgrounds, (teaching, support, senior managers, other support staff). We would like to take part in 28 mobility activities in total over the course of two years. The MFL coordinator will continue to provide a programme of CPD for the rest of the staff in our school focusing on developing language relevant to the primary classroom, increasing cultural knowledge, passing on effective and motivating teaching ideas and resources and encouraging all staff to involve their classes as much as possible in the link with the Spanish school. This will allow us to develop better language skills across the whole of our staff leading to everyday use of Spanish in our daily routines and Spanish being clearly visible throughout the school, better resources and an improved learning environments with authentic resources, improved intercultural awareness more openness to different cultures. There will be better transition into Key stage 3 and regular communication with our link school. The benefits will spread to other schools in our area as we will offer them the opportunity for training and support through our school and also to parents and the local community as they will be invited to be involved as much as possible in the project We will focus on children with low basic skills and English as an additional language. We believe that teaching languages is a way in which to help these children to experience success in learning, building their self-esteem and leading to better attainment in other areas of the curriculum. There will also be an impact on our gifted and talented children through the focus on introducing challenge into the curriculum for languages. The focus on sport and languages will also lead to an impact on reluctant learners and disengaged children, developing enthusiasm and motivation.