Our school initially began teaching French at KS1 and KS2 using a specialist teacher. The children were immediately enthused by this new subject. Once members of the school community felt comfortable with this new subject on the curriculum, we reached out to the wider European community and found a partner school. This has proved to have been a very successful relationship with communication between teachers, and pupils of both schools via postcard, letters and email. The children have learned about each other through their letters and visits where they have met each other face to face. There was an extremely high level of engagement in the children's learning whether it was when learning the language or preparing work through the curriculum to share with their penpals. Using the language as a tool for communication in real and relevant situations had an inspiring effect.Now we are in the process of changing to Spanish at KS2 at the request of our local authority and need to improve the language competency of Staff in the new language. The Erasmus+ programme is ideally placed to support this. Whilst looking at this need we have also taken this opportunity to review our School Development Plan, European Development Plan and school curriculum offer. At present our teachers' needs in terms of improving their Spanish language learning has been identified as a priority if we are to make new relationships with schools in Spain. Looking at our School and European Development plans we also noted that we needed to further enhance our curriculum through internationalism. We also saw this as an opportunity to give teachers a framework in which to develop their leadership skills.To this end, with the support of the Erasmus+ programme we hope to: - improve staff language competency through a periods of intensive language learning in Spain over the next two years, supported by highly qualified staff - address the need to further enhance the curriculum with an aspect of internationalism through communication between partner schools and collaboration in joint projects at a level that engages and inspires pupils and staff. - Participants on the programme would be able to develop their leadership skills through sharing methodology and best practice with colleagues in training sessions. Some of the activities we will conduct are regular language learning sessions as a follow up to the courses in Spain; the sharing of planning and resources through different media with our partner school; creation of joint projects that reflect a global dimension; presentation of these projects through various electronic media, assemblies, staff meetings and conferences via the Hackney Spanish Network.Before and throughout the Erasmus+ programme targets for our needs (language, curriculum, internationalism, leadership) will be set and reviewed at regular intervals by the SLT member (curriculum), Phase Leaders, MFL Subject Leader and course participants as approriate in their roles of responsibility. This will be done through meetings, training, coaching and team teaching.Improving language competency and bringing a element of internationalism to the school through Erasmus+ will inspire and engage the teaching and learning taking place. Pupils will see language learning not only as a subject but a tool through which other things can be learned. They will experience a global dimension to their learning and learn empathy and tolerance of other nations. They will also see their teachers modelling the ethos of life-long learning which we hope they will take with them into adulthood.