Our project aims to primarely improve teaching and learning in our school and raise staff competencies and skills and it will bring a confident international dimension to the work of Madeley Nursery School. Enabling the school to further improve the effectiveness of teaching approaches that link children's learning projects to knowledge of, theories about and imaginative understanding about other countries including aspects of life, culture and geography. Modern foreign languages will become part of the daily life of the school. As we provide education for preschool children this project will assist the school to be seen as part of a continuum of education that improves education standards and reduces the chances of disaffection and school failure in children as they get older. By attending training courses and the associated preparation and post course activities, the team including those in school leadership and educators will progress in their aim to deliver high quality creative learning and teaching within an international context, through collaboration, exchanges of ideas and a belief and realisation in the potential and competency of young children. Participants in this project will include four educators, the head teacher and a governor of the school, reflecting the intention of this project to have embedded and sustained impact on the school. It is hoped to enable the school to sustain links nationally and internationally with colleagues to work together in professional development beyond the life of the project. The project will improve the quality of learning and teaching in school improving children's achievement in their earliest years and their long term educational outcomes, their sustained involvement in school, increased cultural awareness and motivation. School staff will become more confident, responsive to diversity and energised to continually improve their practice.