Our school is currently preparing for the integration of Modern Foreign languages as a compulsory curriculum subject at Key Stage 2 from September 2014. In light of this, we aim to develop the languages skills of our staff, consider ways of improving language teaching to increase enjoyment and progress, and to raise the profile of languages across the school as a whole. Our school has set up a project committee in order to select a participant to go to France, and to oversee the project from the initial application stages, to implementing new skills and methods, to evaluating the impact of the project on our school. We have selected one participant to take part in a one year project including a course in France, with the view to develop language skills and to provide some follow up methodology training. The participant will also reconnect with a teacher from a link school in France to establish a Pen Pals project which will involve children from our Key Stage Two department. We are liaising closely with a course provider, who is overseeing many practical arrangements such as flights, accommodation, and the course itself. A representative from the provider will act as a mentor throughout the course in France, and will provide a support network to ensure the project's success on return. While in France the participant will take part in a language and methodology course aimed at improving French language skills, and equipping our participant with a variety of teaching methods and strategies to implement on return to school. The participant is currently in the process of arranging a time to meet up with the link teacher from a primary school in Toulouse so that part of the project will involve re-establishing a Pen Pals project. We anticipate this project will have an impact upon the enthusiasm of our staff with regard to teaching French and incorporating it into school routines. We also expect to see the quality of French teaching improve, and therefore to see a rise in the progress that our children make. We aim to use the project as a way of up-skilling the language skills of our staff. The potential long term benefits of the project are that we maintain a link with a French primary school for many years to come, and this could eventually lead into school trips and visits to meet the children and find out about the place they live in. We feel that engaging children in language learning can bring about positive effects in other curriculum areas such as literacy, therefore we could expect to see an eventual impact on the school's literacy results.