St Matthews is a small school in an affluent semi-rural area. Although we have an inclusive and caring Christian ethos, our pupils have little real contact with the wider world to which they belong. Through the development of a strong commitment to the teaching of languages and through learning about other countries and cultures through our links abroad, we hope to ignite their curiosity so that our children will come to recognize their place in our global society and be able to play a more informed and productive part in it when they grow up. The excitement and enthusiasm generated through the project will also help to raise standards. Languages teaching at the school has until now been largely supported by outside providers. It has not had a high profile and it has not been embedded into cross curricular learning. Through the project and the course abroad we aim to raise the profile of languages teaching and learning and include the global dimension securely throughout the curriculum. Our school leaders have made a commitment to support staff to engage in the training they will need to increase their own independence and competence in the delivery of languages lessons and to provide access to the necessary resources to do this. They have also agreed to make this a significant part of our school development plan. We plan to send two staff members on immersion courses in France through the Erasmus Plus program. The course abroad forms a key part of the project as the staff involved will be directly involved in modeling and training current practice in languages learning as a result. They will bring back a real link school which they will have visited to share with staff and children. They will conduct presentations for children, staff and the wider school community in preparation and on their return. A baseline assessment of staff expertise has been carried out and progress will be monitored and evaluated regularly to assess the impact of the project on staff and pupils. PQ France Ltd are our course providers. They are in regular contact and will organize travel, accommodation and course content as well as support with developing the link with a school in Toulouse visited as part of the course. During the course there will be upskilling sessions in French, examples of current practice in primary languages teaching, geographical and cultural background work. There will also be an opportunity to purchase children?s books in French at a specialist bookshop. The resources developed, made and purchased, will help to facilitate the embedding of languages and intercultural understanding in our new curriculum. The impact of the course abroad will be measured against leaning objectives agreed by the subject leader and SLT. We predict that the project will impact on raising the profile of language learning and of standards not just in languages but throughout the curriculum, including languages in cross curricular topics to maximize the timetabled provision and that staff and pupils will be enthused by a real purpose for learning a modern language due to the e- twinning links we plan to develop as a result. It is hoped that good practice will be sufficiently enhanced to ensure the continuity of high quality learning and teaching experiences and that staff and pupils from France will be invited to exchange visits between schools, although this is currently a long term goal.