Developing our learning through European Venture The main purpose of this project is to develop the workforces of all the participating schools by completing job shadowing to improve both language and pedagogic skills and understanding. There are eight partner schools and one course provider which is itself a school. There is a common determination to improve language skills to enable the most appropriate methods of teaching languages across a wide range of ages in all our schools. In choosing partner schools it has been important to find schools which match the languages that we hope to provide within our school in the next three years. The project will include all teachers from across our school and will be enhancing both their pedagogic understanding and language knowledge. For some this will be by having an introduction to a language through an immersive experience. It is important to us to explore, research and understand a variety of pedagogic approaches which work to enable children to develop as independent learners through a cross-curricula curriculum. This in turn will help our children to develop understanding and skills which can be transferred to both the application of tasks and to future yet to be determined opportunities. All the schools selected advocate this style of working and yet are culturally very diverse. Blewbury School will also be running a course this summer to develop the idea of ‘Developing Independent Learners through a Creative Curriculum’. The European Framework will be used as a tool to judge personal language improvement. For the pedagogic focused job shadowing a framework to aid observations will be compiled which can then be published on e-twinning as a research case study with practical suggestions and reference links to further relevant information. It is expected that the project will enable a wider more informed basis for helping determine the style of our new evolving curriculum plan for the next four or five years and have a direct impact on our pupils by increasing teacher confidence. The development of individual teacher’s capabilities in language teaching will have an even more direct effect on pupils as a wider group of teachers will be involved in a rolling programme of language teaching, across several languages.