Our children are growing up in a multilingual world and the ability to communicate effectively in social, academic and commercial settings is crucial if they are to play their full part as global citizens. Leith Walk Primary School serves an incredibly diverse community with a wide array of languages spoken, and so it seems particularly pertinent for our school to be a leader in the teaching of modern languages. For our teachers to take part in training in French and its teaching would be of tremendous benefit to our whole school community, whilst raising the prestige of the school. Firstly it would support us in ensuring the Scottish Government?s policy, Language Learning in Scotland: A 1+2 Approach, where every child is to have the opportunity to learn a modern language from P1 onwards, is fulfilled at Leith Walk Primary School. Secondly it would allow us to build our capacity for the teaching of two languages in addition to English now rather than wait until this additional educational policy has been fully implemented across Scotland by 2020. Furthermore if granted attendance on the course, it would provide the perfect platform for our school to become a leader in the teaching of modern languages in Scotland, much to the benefit of the pupils who attend Leith Walk, and hopefully other children from other schools, as we seek to share our expertise. We are all keen to utilise the opportunity presented by the course to find partners abroad and build on our existing good practice. In 2014 we started writing to and sending films to a school in France. Our confidence to undertake projects like this would undoubtedly increase supporting not only our children in becoming global citizens but us as teachers too.