Our school currently does some French teaching, but we are keen to improve and extend this provision and to give our children an excellent experience of language learning. We believe that the key to this is to offer our staff excellent training opportunities so that they are able to teach French to a very good standard. This will motivate our children and lead to better teaching and learning. In addition to this we will offer our children the opportunity to communicate face-to-face with French children of their own age and, through this, to develop a much better understanding of French life and culture. We would like to focus on celebrations, customs and traditions within our cultures and use these to gain a better understanding of our similarities and differences. We also intend to give our children the opportunity to use effective, high quality resources. Another of our objectives in this project is to revise and strengthen the professional profile of our staff. We believe that this training will equip them to be able to teach languages at any level in any school in their future careers and also to be able to pass on their skills through the development of training courses. We would also like to extend our French teaching to Key stage I and early years. We intend to use this project to further develop our links with parents and the local community. The project will involve 8 members of staff and 2 governors taking part in a training course in France which will involve language, culture, methodology, teaching activities and time in a French school. They will then be involved in dissemination of their skills through training sessions for the rest of the staff when they come back. This will lead to all our staff having a great increase in their confidence to teach languages and a better language learning experience for our children. Through this we hope to raise attainment, build long-lasting links and give our staff the confidence to move forward in their careers.