Our school is already involved in significant international work including pupil exchanges, international visits to support cross curricular work and achieving the International Schools Award.We are constantly striving for new ways to strengthen our goal of inspiring our students to learn languages. We would like to use Erasmus + funding to build on our existing strategies for internationalisation. Our MFL staff are all dual linguists and we would like to develop their second language so that all members of staff could teach their second language to Key Stage 4.We also want to involve other departments, like Maths, Science, Art, English, PE and Humanities to strengthening cross-curricular working.We want to create strong and lasting links with schools in Spain and France to improve our pupils’ intercultural understanding, and to improve their communication and writing skills. Many of our students at Key Stage 4 go on to study languages at Key Stage 5 and university level and the chance to correspond and work with students in other countries would help us increase these numbers further.Based on the analysis of our needs, we have planned a project that will last for two years and will involve sending 16 members of staff on structured immersion courses in Spain (Santander) and France (Rouen) to; • develop participants’ skills and confidence in the methodology required for the effective teaching of languages • improve delegates’ competence and confidence in using Spanish/ French, leading to increased use of target language in their lessons on their return to the UK• allow participants to fully immerse themselves in another culture and develop their cultural awareness and understanding• give participants a bank of effective and engaging ideas to encourage active learning and facilitate excellence in the languages classroom • encourage the effective use of ICT resources to improve the teaching and learning of languages• familiarise them with key documents and resources enabling them to become more effective language teachers• encourage lasting links between schools and future partnership work.We expect these results;a stronger European dimension across our own school and our partner schools,staff with more skills offering more flexibility, and improvements in teaching methodologies,improved resources and learning environments,impact on the broader curriculum with better cross curricular links and more links with literacy,the creation of tangible outputs such as new materials, better planning formats and improved systems in our school, improvements in our documentation such as Schemes of Work and policies, a robust series of dissemination activities which will help to multiply the impact of these activities beyond our school.All of these will lead to improvements in pupil choice and timetabling, increased uptake of languages, particularly at higher levels, and improvements in attainment.Staff from other departments will have the opportunity to communicate with their equivalents in Spain and France, build professional networks and share ideas with them. Other schools within our area will share our outcomes leading to an impact on their practice. They will be encouraged to develop the European dimension and take part in similar projects themselves in the future with our support. We will use the new skills and knowledge we have gained to develop activities that parents and the community can be involved in, for example cultural events and celebrations.There will be an impact across the EU as we will support the Erasmus + objectives through our project and will also focus on encouraging other schools to participate in the programme in the future.