We are a very diverse primary school in a deprived area of Manchester. Our school community includes a vast mix of languages, cultures and backgrounds. Many pupils do not have the life experiences we may expect. A high number of pupils and staff have English as an additional language.This truly ‘whole school’ project will introduce Spanish consistently and progressively across our whole school and to involve all members of staff, pupils, parents and the local community, uniting our community and involving everybody in a common purpose. This will help to further our school priority of enhancing community cohesion. We will build on our current international work and equip all staff with the skills and knowledge to be able to teach Spanish confidently. This is ambitious, large-scale project will offer all members of staff the opportunity to take part in 8 day immersion courses based in Spain. 36 members of staff will take part in the training over a period of two years.This project will result in lasting changes within our school. Our project objectives fit in with EU objectives, and our current whole school priorities, and will form part of our school development plan.This is a large-scale project and we intend the long term impact to be great, both within our school and beyond.Participants will experience;improvements in language skills, intercultural understanding, and teaching methodology, and greater willingness to work together as a team. Staff who have English as an additional language will be encouraged to be proud and confident in their abilities. Participants’ increased confidence, enjoyment of their jobs and development of skills and knowledge will help to enhance their professional profile and make them more employable in the future. It will impact on our staff’s vision for their own future careers and encourage them to consider working within the EU. There will be a great impact on the management competencies of the language coordinator and this will also be the case for other members of staff.Pupils will experience;improved attainment, and in the long term they will be more likely to continue with language learning and education in general,increased self-esteem through the recognition of their current language skills, more enjoyment of learning and a recognition that we value diverse cultures and different backgrounds. Parents and our local community will experience; more involvement in school life leading to increased support of children’s learning and improvements in community cohesion development of their own language skills through language classes and interest in other cultures leading to an increase in parents’ and community members’ access to further education. School will experience; modernisation and internationalisation of our curriculum, raising our profile as a hub of good practice and support for other schools in the area, better teaching leading to better attainment and results in the long term, improvements in literacy across the school, more parental involvementbetter trained, more flexible staff who enjoy their work and are motivated and happy. the International Schools Award.Other schools in the area will benefit from the training and support that we will offer.Our Spanish link school will experience improvements in staff language skills, cultural knowledge, better resources, improved teaching methods,more motivated staff and pupils, and the development of international links and participation in professional networks. The tangible outputs of this project will bea training package, guidance materials, impact reports, new materials, resource sharing platform and professional networks will mean that the impact of the activity will continue to be felt for many years to come.