Gimnazija Franc Miklošič Ljutomer (GFML)is a secondary school which has been engaged in and coordinated many international projects, staff and student mobility exchange, including participant students of the secondary school programme gimnazija (prep-school) but has never included students from secondary vocational nursery nurses school (formally called pre-school education programme). GFML is a school in a rural area of Slovenia, therefore students of the vocational nursing programme school are mostly from deprivileged social environment and therefore have less possibilities to be engaged in mobility exchanges.In accordance with strategic plan of ET 2020 GFML aims to encourage and reinforce the importance of long life learning, staff and student mobility and to cultivate the learning process.The pre-school education programme at GFML has enriched and has developed greatly in the field of creative art skills but less in professional skills like communication, child development and learning in pre-school period, and the language competence. The surveys made after project days, carried out at school, and evaluations of student’s practice in kindergartens show that our nursery students tend to choose activities and prefer working with older children of the older age group of pre-schoolers and do not feel confident to work with toddlers. Students believe, toddlers are not able to cope with language and other activities done in kindergarten groups. Based on these results, the main goal is:- To improve communication skills of 2nd and 3rd year student and improve their communication competence to work with toddlers. We expect 30 % of participating students to learn sign language and communication skills to work with toddlers. We expect the students to be able to use the gained skills in authentic situations when working in kindergartens. The next goal is for students to learn the foreign language of their profession in authentic situations. At the end of the project, we expect the participants to integrate the language learnt in their daily work routine in kindergartens where they do their practice.This mobility project would include 36 student in 2 years’ time. The criteria to choose the participants would be as follows:- Learning English as their 1st foreign language- Willpower to actively participate in the exchange- Claims for additional communication skills and knowledge needed to work with toddlers.The project will bring together GFML with an English school, having much of experience practising sigh language with babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers. They are recognized experts in this field and offer sign language courses. The Tiny Singers’ staff are devoted to spreading sign language communication in England and across its borders in other European countries.At the start of the project, the students’ needs will be evaluated with a survey. The students who will meet the criteria to participate in the project will be properly educated and prepared, in language and multicultural understanding, to enter the project. Both partners are obliged to prepare documents required to do the exchange. The main activity is the student exchange (Slovenia – England, England – Slovenia) following this scheme:- preparation at home school,- the arrival and welcoming of participating student group (Leeds), hotel stay,- a presentation of the exchange guest school or/and kindergartens , where nursery students do their practical education,- learning and mastering the sign language with children in English kindergartens,- practical work in kindergartens/ schools,- learning and mastering the child communication at The City College Leeds (Toddler, pre-schooler communication and Internationalisation of preschool education),- simultaneous daily evaluation, weekly evaluation of work done,- joined workshop and evaluation for all the participants,- excursion to York and Leeds,- departure day.An evaluation report will be prepared after the first exchange and presented to the school staff and students.The activities of the project will contribute to the improvement of insufficient working skills indicated in students of GFML and improve the GFML teachers’ skills as well. We expect them to bring innovative methods of teaching into their teaching routine. Learning English in authentic environment will give students a benefit at work market if searching for work in a foreign country. Project participants will also learn teamwork and contentious cooperation. The project will bring benefits to the local environment of Pomurje region in Slovenia as our students do their practice in kindergartens all around the region. Through Slovenian English student exchange we expect to gain knowledge and experience surpassing regional and national borders.