Our primary school is located in an «educational priority zone », known as an ECLAIR zone (Écoles, collèges et lycées pour l'ambition, l'innovation et la réussite / Primary schools, Secondary schools and High schools for ambition, innovation and success) due to us welcoming students from families who live in an underprivileged area. What’s more, this school is located in an area where there are many unemployed single-parented families. Currently 35.8% of students come from a single-parented family, with more than 70% of students come from an unemployed family. The average familial income in the area is around 5700 euros per year, which is well under the poverty line (familial income of 11250 euros). As a result, in terms of the wide scale of social difficulties, our school and the middle school nearby have been classified as the worst in the area. This social environment means that students have exceptional needs : educational needs but also emotional needs. Lots of students have moved to France from a large range of foreign countries (Turkey, Portugal, Kosovo, Chechnya, North Africa, Kurdistan, Armenia, Slovenia, Brazil, Ivory Coast, Spain) including overseas French territories, such as Mayotte (the Comoros Islands) and French Guyana (Surinam). This year, 8 newly arrived immigrant students have lessons og French as a foreign language. This diversity is culturally very rich but causes problems with apprenticeships as well as organising groups to work together in a class. Due to this, a number of programmes have been put in place. These programmes are called PPREs (Programme Personnalisé de Réussite Educative/ Personalised Educational Success Programmes). During English lessons, all the students have the same abilities, which allow them to feel confident in their work. Some newly arrived immigrant students are even performing better than some of the students who have always lived in France. A great number of those students who lack self-confidence and find themselves struggling academically don’t have parents who are able to help them reach the desired educational level. Schooling is the necessary bridge between childhood and working life. It is extremely important that these students and future citizens (of France and Europe) are made aware of the most likely future avenues that are available to them. The participants of this programme are Year 5 and Year 6 students (CM1 and CM2 in France). The participants are split up into three classes of about fifty students. The programme is being run by a team of ten teachers; we have been working together for around ten years and thus we have a solid understanding of this issue. It is important to us that by sharing our knowledge amongst ourselves and training each other, we can help our students. This programme also allows us to promote teamwork by sharing tasks, teaching practices and comparing our results. This programme includes three teachers who each have three different English ability levels. We have already carried out several courses related to English language teaching: Comenius, Elearning and other online teaching programmes which are proposed by our inspections. We wish to follow this language training, not only to improve our grammatical, lexical and expressive levels, but also from the educational point of view, and finally because we do it willingly, hoping to find a lot of personal satisfaction. One of the objectives is for all the teachers to reach level B2 of the Common Framework and for all students to reach level A1. The programme will operate in accordance to the following cycle 3 objectives (cycle 3 corresponds to 9 to 11 years old pupils): -Raising awareness of foreign languages -Construction of precise linguistic knowledge (common communication forms, lexicon, syntax) - Construction of knowledge about the lifestyles and culture of the partner countries. - To encourage writing - To develop all forms of expression (oral, written, artistic) - To discover the main features of the organization of the European area. - To build individual European identities. - To introduce the use of new technologies. - To prepare students for entry into secondary school with the best level in a foreign language (such as English) as possible. - To continue the primary-secondary schools’ connections (an exchange of services between the teachers of the primary and secondary schools through the ECLAIR plan). To meet these goals, teachers of languages will carry out all activities: - Our inter-class exchanges of games (using the lexicon for different topics) - Our correspondence (written and oral work on the topic of English culture) - Our connection with the newspaper of the school and the website of the programme - Our short sketches which will be presented to parents at the end of year celebrations. (Oral work) All this work will give a concrete dimension to the teaching of Foreign Languages and also facilitate the opening to Europe.