Our school has previously been involved in work with a link school in Santander, Spain and we have also hosted some of the Spanish teachers in our school. We now need to develop this link further. We want to take a whole school approach to developing languages in our school and increasing our links with our Spanish school. We would like this to involve the Head Teacher, MFL coordinator and other members of staff. We want to Spanish to become embedded in every aspect of our school life. We need to improve staff knowledge. They need to develop their subject knowledge in order to be able to confidently teach Spanish across all year groups and achieve the new curriculum requirement for languages. We want all of our staff to feel confident in using Spanish in their classroom and to also have a solid knowledge of Spanish culture so that this can be used to develop the interest and motivation of pupils and broaden their intercultural understanding. As a training school, we are keen that our own staff have the very best opportunities for professional development. We feel that there is a pressing need at the moment to focus on language skills due to recent curriculum changes. We want to introduce more innovative approaches to language learning and offer excellent primary languages training as in our training facility (The Sanctuary). We want to focus on moving forward in our link with the Spanish school, involving more members of staff. Our long-term aim would be for our older children to take part in an exchange visit with the Spanish children.We want to encourage further cross curricular work and the embedding of Spanish into other subject areas and develop support networks further. Another priority for us is to extend community links. We are aware that many children with SEN will achieve better in languages than in other subjects due to the nature of language teaching and learning. We want to look for ways to make the most of this opportunity to develop these children’s self-esteem and lead them to do better in all subjects. We also want to develop a training program for non-teaching staff (including lunchtime organisers and support staff) to train them in using other languages on the playground and at lunchtime and improve transition into secondary school. St Chad’s is planning a two year project to lead us towards the achievement of all of the above targets and develop the teaching and learning of Spanish in our school. We would like this project to include several members of staff taking part in mobility activities to Spain. We would like them to be involved in training courses which will focus on intensive language learning, intercultural activities, methodology and teaching ideas, discussion of issues facing schools in the development of primary languages, opportunities to develop networks and the chance to further our link with our Spanish school. We would like to involve seven members of staff in these visits. This will include the head teacher and MFL coordinator. We also would like to include the head of ‘The Sanctuary’, our training facility. In addition to this we would like to involve teaching and support staff in the visits. This will give us a good cross-section of staff in the school and will help us to develop our whole school approach to languages. The involvement of the head will mean that the school is fully committed to developing this approach and that it will be embedded into our ethos and seen in every aspect of our school life. The impact on our school of this project will be great. Spanish, a love of languages and an appreciation of other cultures will be embedded into every aspect of our school life. Our whole school approach will mean that Spanish becomes even more visible in our school. Our staff will have a huge boost in confidence as a result of this project, which will contribute towards a better learning experience for our pupils. Children will be more motivated and engaged and will enjoy their learning more. They will develop a love of languages at this early stage which will lead them to want to continue with languages furthering their school career.There will be a particular impact on children with special educational needs and low basic skills and all children will become more enthusiastic about language learning and want to find out more about Spanish culture and life. They will be able to focus on aspects of culture that a more relevant to them which will also impact on the interest and motivation.Our schools training programme (through ’The Sanctuary’) will develop to include language training based on the skills acquired on these visits. We will also offer language training to parents and members of the local community. There will be more cultural activities and more linking activities involving the Spanish school. All of this will impact on the enjoyment of Spanish and also on the development of our whole school approach.