We are a junior-high school based in Shetland teaching pupils aged five to sixteen. We are aiming to send a member of staff on a three week long Spanish language immersion training course in Spain. This is run by Language for Education Europe (LFEE).Due to changes in national policy on modern languages and a rethink of our school's aims and objectives for Global Learning, we are examining how we teach both primary and secondary pupils modern languages. As part of our school and local authority's strategy for '1+2' implementation (whereby pupils must leave school having studied one first language plus two other modern languages), we plan to teach Spanish and French from primary school to qualification level. In order to do this effectively we need staff who are confident enough in these subjects and qualified to teach the appropriate languages. We have already begun working with the local authority to invest in resources to help staff with this such as Power Language but this immersion training will increase our staff capacity to make the best of these resources.We currently have staff capacity to teach French up to qualification level. We have started setting up Spanish language courses for young people at Secondary 1 and 2 level (and a Spanish Club in our Primary Department) but need qualified staff to allow us to teach this to accreditation level (S3 and 4). This LFEE course will allow a staff member to gain accreditation that will contribute towards their diploma in Spanish and therefore will help our school and Local authority's capacity to teach Spanish up to qualification.The aims of the course are for the participant staff to gain language competency and improve their teaching skills. This course will help the teacher embed languages as part of everyday school routine and open up opportunities for promotion of global citizenship which is a key part of our curriculum. On return, our participant teacher will share their experience with the rest of our primary and secondary staff through CPD opportunities and events we have planned for the coming school year as well as publicising their experience and promoting our links and modern language teaching to the wider community through school newsletters and local media.The staff member going on the mobility plays a crucial role in out uptake of modern languages in the school. They currently teach French up to S4 in the school and they are on their way to completing a Spanish by distance learning Diploma at the University of Dundee, which will allow them to teach Spanish. This is crucial to our plans for developing our strategy for 1+2. The staff member has also been chosen based on their engagement with global learning and modern languages and by the fact that they all teach at a range of levels in secondary as well as supporting our primary staff with their modern language teaching. They are involved in modern language teaching already but in more informal or extra curricular ways such as language clubs and themed assemblies when it comes to Spanish. We feel they need more experience or ideas on how to integrate modern languages in other ways and into the curriculum and it is also beneficial that this course can help them towards their Spanish language Diploma.While the national policy makes this training more essential, this course is is also part of our school strategy for learning globally. We have set up a staff group on 'Global Learning' and have a Language Ambassador in place who is responsible for coordinating how we integrate the new national policy on modern languages. We are also looking at how to expand our international links. We are a UNICEF Rights respecting School and also Shetland's first Confucius Hub (which promotes Chinese culture and language). This demonstrates our passion for looking at the world around us, however we want to extend our links to increase the European dimension. Having already signed up for e-twinning, our aim is to find a partner school from both France and Spain so that this can compliment the immersion training and give a real context for learning to our pupils and staff. Last year some of our Primary staff took part in this training and have started developing links with Nice in France. We expect similar links to be made with Spanish partners after this year's training.