Our project is focused on enhancing the International dimensional across the curriculum. We need to incorporate more international activities and cultural awareness into every aspect of our curriculum and school life. We need to improve the language skills of staff in our MFL department so that everyone can teach a second or third language. We also want to improve practice in school through observation of other countries and the sharing of good practice within the MFL department and in other curriculum areas. We are keen to establish joint projects between schools in the UK, Spain and France across all curriculum areas. We would like to have the opportunity to see how literacy is embedded throughout the curriculum in other countries. Our school is focused on improving the attainment of young people with low basic skills and we are keen to improve outcomes in English and maths . Another of our whole school aims is to have more community involvement in school life. We would like to see how other schools involve the whole community. We also want to form long-lasting partnerships with students and colleagues in Spain and France. We need to improve the number of our students going on to further education and cut our rates of early school leaving. We also want to increase our involvement and contact with our feeder primary schools and find strategies for successful transition. Our activity plan involves 8 members of staff from across the school taking part in training courses in Spain and France including language learning, cultural immersion, methodology and pedagogy input opportunities for professional discussion and the formation of professional networks and placement in a school in Spain/France. We would like to send members of staff from the MFL department and also representatives from the literacy and maths departments. The results of the project will include a more highly skilled staff with an improved professional profile, more choice of languages available across the school, better results in literacy, more cooperation across departments, increased to communication with native speakers and more joint projects. This will increase our children’s attainment within languages and their understanding of other cultures. It will also increase their motivation and enjoyment of the subject and encourage them to continue with languages leading to greater uptake. The impact of new ideas and fresh ways of teaching will also be felt in other departments outside of languages. This will result in a general increase in motivation and attainment. A long-term impact of this will be that more children stay in education the longer and go on to further education. We would also like to see more of our children choosing careers involving languages. There will be more involvement of parents and the local community in school, bringing greater cultural awareness and openness to the community and increased contact with our primary schools which will improve transition. We hope that this project will also impact on our link schools in Spain and France. They will have the opportunity to observe our practice and we will share ideas and resources with them leading to a better learning experience for all.