The project entitled ”Highly skilled teaching staff as a key to students’ success!” is the answer to the needs and objectives defined by the head teacher, deputy head, teachers and students of the Senior High School in Środa Wielkopolska (Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Powstańców Wielkopolskich w Środzie Wielkopolskiej).One of the priority activities of our institution is to emphasize the Europeanism of our school. We would like to achieve it by enabling our students to learn about Europe through direct contacts and increasing quality, attractiveness and efficiency of English language teaching both among the teachers and the students. Our school aims at universal development of a student and this aim cannot be achieved without dependable preparation received by the teachers.PROJECT OBJECTIVES:The main objective of the project is to equip the teachers with language skills needed to:- implement the European Development Plan of our school;- create a bilingual class (CLIL) where each school subject will be taught in Polish and in English- start a long-lasting cooperation with many schools from whole Europe, which will lead to writing Erasmus+ projects and student exchanges.LONG-TERM RESULTS AND BENEFITS OF THE PROJECTImplementation of the project will provide long-lasting results and long-term benefits to the Senior High School in Środa Wielkopolska, such as:- teachers with high language skills who will be able to teach in the bilingual class.- English teachers using innovative and efficient teaching methods, which will improve results in language part of our students’ matura examination (Polish equivalent of A-level examination) and will enable our students to communicate in English freely during international school exchanges, Erasmus+ mobilities and implementation of eTwinning projects.- management staff using innovative methods of leading a team of employees based on motivating them efficiently; leading the school using the best solutions improving communication and aimed to develop the school in the future by successful models implemented in whole Europe.NUMBER AND PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTS AND DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITIES:Cooperation with project partners: International Study Programmes and Europa School of English was started before submission of the application. Partners contacted by telephone and email in order to design the project.During the process of the project implementation the following steps will be performed:- a language course for 12 teachers with low command of English (levels: A1 and A2). Teachers from this group require a thorough transfer of knowledge and basic language skills acquisition (course organiser: Europa School of English).- a language course for 6 teachers with command of English on minimum B1 level aimed to prepare them to teach their subjects in two languages: Polish and English (course organiser: International Study Programmes).- a methodical course for 1 English language teacher, which will prepare her/him to use innovative and activating methods of teaching English in everyday work. After the course, during an internal training, the teacher will transfer the acquired knowledge to the rest of English teachers at our school (course organiser: International Study Programmes).- a course for the school management staff – 2 teachers. The course will be organised by International Study Programmes, which offers overall training for head teachers (course organiser: International Study Programmes).Implementation of the project ”Highly skilled teaching staff as a key to students’ success!” will affect not only the people directly connected with its implementation, but also a wide circle of indirect recipients, as it was described in detail in the project.