In summary, Thrupp Primary school is a small school which is always willing to take on board new initiatives and practices if they will benefit the pupils. In order to maximise our teaching and consequently the learning of our pupils we need supporting with the development and expertise of staff. We strongly believe that raising the standards of our teaching of French language and culture, by providing high quality immersion training courses for our staff, will have an enormously positive impact on our children. Initially we plan to focus on the professional development of our MFL coordinator. She will then disseminate her new knowledge and skills to colleagues and motivate and encourage two other members of staff to participate in training to suit their skills and needs. Raising standards of teaching throughout KS2 will enable us to fulfill our ambition of cross curricular language teaching. Communication within the school is crucial so as to maximise the positive effect of high quality training and we have in place a very productive system of peer support and lesson observations which we will utilise to ensure good practice permeates out to all classes. This project is fully supported by the Headteacher and Governing Body and our School Improvement Plan shows the commitment that we have to drive this project forward. By having increased expertise upon our staff our children will benefit from high quality lessons. This in turn will encourage positive learning at secondary schools. It is our long term aim to be recognised within the local area as a school with outstanding practice in the teaching and learning of languages and to support other schools in the delivery of the MFL programmes of study.