1. We have loved being involved in our etwinning projects so far and value the opportunities which it offers to our pupils, as they develop as global citizens. I believe it prepares them for the world of work and lifelong learning in the 21st century. Etwinning is a great way of breaking down barriers to learning and increases the European dimension in our pupil's learning. 2. The project will be a develop and establish a link with the school in Italy. The funding will allow 1 member of staff from Aire View and 1 member of staff from Hothfield to visit the school in Italy. This will fulfill our objectives outlined in our European Development plan and allow the two members of staff to:-Study provision and transition between Early years / Year 1 to strengthen our school's approach to year 1 teaching and organisation. Likewise the transition between year 2 /3 and what strategies are used to ensure a smooth transition and continuity of progression. This will strengthen Aire Views system as it approaches a proposed merger in September 2017Study both schools' approach to outdoor learning and if this has made an impact on improving standards.Observe the impact of provision / intervention on the least / most able across the schools.We wish to improve the the leadership and management of the school from the comparison with another European system of school governance. We also would like to improve the analysis of school progression data for different groups of children (for example the progression of girls / boys)We are also very interested in exploring different teaching methods used in other European schools, in order to improve teaching and learning at Aire View Infant school and Hothfield Junior School. We plan to do this through job shadowing. This would be particularly in relation to the use of talk for learning / teaching of foreign languages and mathematics. We would like to explore how feedback is given in another European setting and how this has an impact on progress. We wish to improve staff competencies in foreign languages. Both participants in the job-shadowing visit are intending to improve their competence in Italian which will be useful in our future work within our own school and our European partners. We will be also interested in looking at how new technologies are being used within the classroom and how this impacts on standards (for example- the use of ipads).Develop and strengthen a link with our Italian partnerWe think that these opportunities outlined above will help Aire View and Hothfield develop a new sense of 'identity' as they move towards the school merger in September 2017. We will be working with our partner school on etwinning project s during the 24 months of the program and during our job shadowing visit. We intend to have high quality learning outcomes for pupils and high quality professional development for staff. Tim Whitehead is particularly interested in using new technologies and adobe connect / skype in the classroom to improve learning outcomes. Elisa Woffenden is interested in developing a language based etwinning project based on the topic of Ancient Rome and again this will have high quality learning outcomes through peer teaching and learning. We intend to work at a high level, giving outstanding opportunities to our pupils to work internationally on projects with their peers. The mobility visit will give the children the opportunity to find out more about the partner school and to ask questions for their teachers to find out during the visit. We intend to use adobe connect / skype during the visit. We are hoping that the children will be inspired by this work and will want to visit other European countries.