Ormiston Victory Academy is an outstanding school and as such we want to take Teaching beyond Outstanding. We are looking for new and innovative ways to make our school stand out as a centre of excellence in terms of languages, European dimension and international links. We want to have a great impact across all departments and phases and also within our primary feeder schools. We want to open up our school to Europe and share practice with European colleagues in terms of teaching, curriculum development and organisation. We believe that we have a lot to offer European colleagues and also a lot to gain from their experience. We want to involve our whole school in this project and offer our pupils the best experience they can have and create a new generation of linguists with a love for languages and deep interest in culture and the lives of others. We want our pupils to feel fully ‘European’ and to envisage their future as part of Europe. We want to further develop a ‘cross phase’ approach and Content and Language Integrated Learning. We want to improve children’s Literacy through excellent teaching of languages, create links with schools abroad and improve intercultural understanding across the school. We also hope to update staff language competence and intercultural understanding, improve teaching methods, encourage cross curricular work and build links with parents and community. We want to support children with specific needs and low basic skills, increase links with our cluster schools, increase children’s motivation to learn and boost their international employment prospects. We will integrate good practice from Europe into our own systems and create resources and training packages to support other schools and also to ensure a continuing programme of professional development in our own school. We plan to develop extra-curricular activities- before and after school and give real purpose to language teaching and developing joint projects through ‘e-twinning’. We will increase the use of Europass to assess staff and students and international professional networks for the sharing of resources, ideas and good practice. We intend to develop an ambitious two year project which will result in us achieving our identified aims. We will involve staff from all departments, roles and backgrounds in order to achieve a true whole school approach and an impact felt in every aspect of our school life. We would like the project to involve 100 mobility activities in total. 50 will be to France and 50 to Spain. This will allow us to include a large proportion of our staff in direct contact with the language, culture and education systems of Europe. The staff members who are not directly involved will have opportunities to develop their skills through the training and dissemination activities resulting from the visits. We believe that involving all of our staff in this way will lead to a great impact on our school and others in our cluster. It will develop momentum and a great sense of excitement and will lead to a great change in our outlook and the way we do things leading to teaching opportunities that go beyond outstanding. We will have the opportunity to pull together as a team across the school to ensure that we develop truly excellent practice, incorporating the best practice of Europ The enthusiasm and motivation of the staff will rub off on the pupils leading to better learning, greater uptake of languages and more ambitious students. This will lead to greater uptake of languages and a decrease in early school leaving. The impact of this project on our school will be huge. It will create a fundamental change in our practice and will mean that we are able to push our achievements beyond outstanding. We also intend to have a wider impact including other schools within our academies network, feeder primary schools, parents and the community. The envisaged impacts will include better language skills and greater intercultural knowledge of all staff, the introduction of the European dimension right across our school, in every subject area and embedded into all our practices, the integration of best practice from observation of European colleagues into our own practice leading to better teaching and learning, increased motivation of staff leading to better pupil motivation, the development of new materials, schemes of work and training programmes, the development of a strong network of support, the introduction of CLIL and greater cooperation with feeder primaries. We will develop excellent links with Spanish and French schools leading to great benefits for all concerned which will greatly increase pupils’ motivation to learn languages and give them a much wider outlook, seeing Europe as being somewhere that is relevant to their own lives. Pupils will see beyond their own immediate surroundings and embrace difference and there will be increased cooperation across departments and more cross curricular work.