Context We are a small primary school in the North West of England. Objectives Our ambition is to -improve our staff competence in order to be able to deliver Spanish and/or other European languages at KS2 -increase European awareness with the introduction of a European dimension to our curriculum -increase children's contact with native speakers -encourage the use of ICT within language teaching -improve the attainment of young people with low basic skills in maths, science and literacy -enable staff to develop their confidence and skills to a deeper level -develop partnerships between schools which will enable networking and observing different and innovative approaches to language teaching and learning. Participants The range of staff will include our head teacher, our MFL coordinator, our teachers and teaching assistants. In each of their roles, from senior leadership to detailed work every day in classrooms, they will be able to contribute to our whole school change in the profile of a modern foreign language, and our understanding of another culture. We believe that supporting our whole staff of 13 people to access a training programme in Spain, which will develop not only their language skills, but also provide them with an improved range of methods for teaching MFL at primary levels, an authentic understanding of Spanish culture, will help us to make great strides towards achieving this. In between courses, our staff will be able to support one another they will also have the support of a network of other teaching staff from the UK and from the link school in Spain to continue to share ideas and to reinforce learning. Our expectation is that there will be a significant increase in staff confidence and competence in teaching Spanish, and this will communicate itself to the children. We expect experiencing success in learning Spanish to increase our childrens self-esteem, and their general competence in literacy. In the longer term we hope to have an impact on our children's opportunities and life choices by giving them the best experience we can of language learning. Our team working as a staff group will be enhanced by our 'whole school' approach to this project. Description of undertaken activities and results. As described in the 'Description of Project' section, the activities undertaken enabled the successful implementation of Spanish teaching within our school and the standards of teaching and learning have improved the outcomes of our pupils. The activities included immersive and intensive Spanish language learning which has resulted in staff gaining Spanish certificates from A1 to B1 level. This was achieved by three visits by staff to Santander and included language learning provided by an established, professional language school. Each visit was for a week and included language learning, cultural activities and visits to places of interest such as the caves at Alta Mira; Gaudi's house 'El Capricho' at Comillas and the medieval town of Santillana del Mar. During our first visit to Santander we were introduced to a school where we observed how teachers taught and how the children learned. We noticed that the children had to provide their own learning resources such as books and text books along with pens and pencils. Spanish children learn English every day for one hour and have other lessons such as PE and Music in English. They have to have an English qualification for work or University. Whereas English children in primary schools only have one hour a week to learn a foreign language. We were introduced to the Spanish teaching system and how teachers are chosen to teach at schools by their position on a list. We formed a close link with this school and have exchanged letters, cards and videos. We have regularly emailed each other between our visits. Also through this link, we have become part of the E-twinning platform and completed a 'Space' project together which was published and our school has now received an International School award at Foundation level from the British Council. Since completing the language courses the subject leader is now able to teach children in Spanish and teach to a higher level such as using verb tenses and able to explain aspects of grammar and has developed a new curriculum for the school. This has been achieved purely through the funding received from Erasmus over the course of two years. The visits to Santander also provided a number of fun teaching resources that can be utilised in lessons such as songs, games, books, souvenirs, menus, art, famous Spaniards, photographs of transport and buildings. This has provided a stimulus to lessons and also gives insight to the children of Spanish life rather than a stereo typical view of holidays on the beach. Regular networking with other schools has been established through a subject leaders forum every term where new ideas are developed and exchanged. E-twinning will now be developed further.