We currently offer French language throughout our school but we would like to broaden our MFL curriculum by offering Spanish too, to all year groups from reception through to year six. We want to make links with the school in Spain. We are working towards gold in the International School Awards and therefore want to develop more international links and intercultural understanding. We would like to arrange cross curricular activities focus on using language learning to develop reading/literacy skills. We are keen to improve and develop our teaching skills and discover new teaching methods for languages. We want to embed Spanish into our daily routines, allowing children to hear and speak a language more regularly. We are keen to start up an “International film club” in our school We also want to observe different teaching methodologies and bring best practice back to our school. We want to take a whole school approach to language development in our school and involve as many members of staff as possible. We want language learning and intercultural understanding to be built in to the ethos of our school. We also want to increase our community links and parental involvement in our school. We plan to send our MFL team (four members of staff) to Spain to take part in a series of two training courses over two years. The courses would be progressive, the second would build on the learning developed in the first, and we would then use these new ideas and strategies to energise the whole of our staff to be involved in the development of Spanish in our school. Taking part in these courses will mean that our MFL development team will have an excellent understanding of the best way to embed Spanish into our curriculum. They will also be much more confident in their Spanish language skills and cultural knowledge and will have a good bank of ideas and resources. This will mean that they are able to develop a programme of training within our school for the whole of our staff (teaching, support etc). We feel that this will be an effective way to meet the needs of our whole staff in terms of language teaching and embed a whole school approach. This will lead to a broadening of our MFL curriculum and a development in children’s literacy skills. We will have much better links abroad and Spanish will be embedded into the daily life of the school and into all our classroom routines and across our curriculum. This will create a great impact on our whole school, all staff and learners. We will become more open to other cultures and more aware of the similarities and differences with our own. We will involve parents and the local community in the enrichment and cultural activities in our school. We hope that this will impact on parental involvement and community links and contribute to our whole school aim of increasing these. We hope to be able to pass on the skills and knowledge we have gained on these courses to staff in other schools too and will create a page on our school website that will include regular updates about the project and access to resources and teaching ideas.