The Bliss Charity School is an independent aided state school in a rural setting. It has 20% of children with Special Needs and 12% disadvantaged. The school has achieved the International School Award and the Eco Schools award as well as being a Healthy School. The school is the lead school for the Global Learning Partnership.The Bliss is a strategic partner for a teaching school alliance, working closely with two alliances. We have developed meta-cognition projects across our county which we develop in other schools as well as leadership development training. We have recently noticed an increase in numbers of vulnerable children and those for whom safe-guarding is an important issue. Our school already has an international ethos and this can only be enhanced by ensuring that training is carried out through Erasmus with a European dimension. Therefore, our project main objectives are:to develop the leadership of schools in managing change through exposure to best practice across Europe.to ensure that each school's curriculum is exciting and innovative and has an element of globalisation and internationalism and enhances the learning of the children.to develop the skills and expertise of teachers so that they can meet the demands and expectations and deliver a first class education to all children.to prepare children for schooling and ensure that they receive the best possible start to their school life and that this extends across their whole time at school. They should be prepared for the global dimension that is the nature of the world today and have a clear and sympathetic view of a variety of culturesto develop and enhance teaching and learning methods and application in mathematics, Early Years and wellbeingfurther enhance and develop leadership to support capacity in our middle and senior leadership, which will in turn support and facilitate the dissemination of successful strategies gleaned from our international development coursesestablish links to develop partnership projectsenhance teaching and learning through sharing of good practice and experiences with schools across a number of countriesWe aims to achieve our objectives by staff attending structured training courses in 4 countries. a total of 8 teaching and non teaching staff will take part. they have been selected based on their role, experience and willingness to share and implement changes in our school.The project will have elements of high quality training, developing teacher competencies, creating cross-school groups tackling similar issues as well as a forum to discuss innovative practice and share these innovations across many more schools. It will enable a forum for discussion and an opportunity for school-led research, particularly around the aspects of leadership and mental health.The project should have maximum impact in that it meets the needs not only for our school but also for the alliance as a whole. It is innovative in that the objectives and the priorities have been established taking into account our role in the alliance and have been chosen to match the needs of the school. It also provides a wonderful opportunity to cascade and disseminate results through a ready set up system which is the teaching school alliance.By the end of the project, we should have a mathematics curriculum and methodology that creates consistency within and across schools and develops teacher competency in teaching mathematics; a system of Early Years provision that is led by a strong philosophy and underpinned by great practice which is crucial to successful schools; children who are well-balanced and have training in stress and anxiety relief and a school that has knowledge and expertise to deal with children and families in crisis. All of this development will be led by a team of teachers who have a strong vision and awareness of what needs to be achieved and how change can be managed and sustained.