Through this project we hope to increase the international ethos in our school and build internationalism into our curriculum. We need to raise the intercultural understanding and European awareness within our whole community of students, staff, parents and the local community. We want to increase the use of target language within our languages lessons, eventually leading to CLIL projects, and to continue to improve our teaching methodologies across the curriculum. We aim to increase our pupils' intercultural understanding and make them more outward looking in terms of their future careers. We want our pupils to have regular contact with partner schools through eTwinning, giving them a real context and purpose for learning languages, increasing their motivation and enjoyment and impacting upon all pupils, particularly vulnerable groups such as those in danger of early school leaving. We also want to strengthen the profile of our teaching staff, adding to their skill set and giving them the opportunity to collaborate with colleagues from within their own school other UK schools and partner schools abroad. Our overall aim is to increase attainment within our school. We plan to send 16 members of staff on visits to Spain and France over a two-year period. They will take part in structured training courses which include the following elements; intensive language training, intercultural immersion and activities, teaching ideas and methodology, opportunities for professional discussions about issues relating to language teaching and internationalism in schools and the opportunity to spend time in a school in Spain or France creating links and having first-hand experience of the education system. These visits would include language teachers and also teachers of other curriculum areas. Our project will also include a dissemination plan to ensure that all members of staff (as well as pupils, parents and the wider community) will benefit from the mobility activities. The activities will result in an increase in internationalism and intercultural understanding throughout our school, placing our staff in a better position to be able to deliver the new International Middle Years programme. Our staff and pupils will be more motivated with better skills (linguistic, intercultural and teaching), better resources and much improved access to native speakers. There will be more use of target language in the language learning classroom, eventually leading to a CLIL project, sustainable links and future pupil visits. There will be a general improvement in professional practice, a building of professional networks and more involvement in the school of parents and the local community. Pupils and staff will be more motivated and enthused. Pupils will become more outward looking in their aspirations and staff will have an improved professional profile.