"This project is an exciting opportunity for pupils and staff to develop news skills, share new experiences and have firsthand experience of lifestyle and culture in Europe, and in particular in France.The main of the objectives of this project are to engage pupils in storytelling through the use of Pie Corbett Strategies. Pupils are to enhance their literacy and foreign language skills and gain first hand experience of different ways of living and working together in different communities. Pupils and staff from West Grove and Ecole Descartes will co-create and produce a pupil lead collaborative story. Staff and pupils will use multimedia - motion animation, cameras, speak-easy microphones, video applications for recording their story at each stage. They will use applications such as Storymaker or istory to create and publish their stories. The process to get to this will include sharing by videoconferencing and email as well as the e-twining platform which will portray our plans, descriptions and story maps. The three key principals in Pie Corbett's strategy involves imitating, innovating and then inventing a story. The first year of the project will involve the first and second ""I"" and the second year will be primarily focused on inventing their joint story.The story will be chosen by the pupils and their interests. The storymap stage happens at all three stages - this involves telling the story through a physical story map; gestures and sounds and every pupil will be able to access it.They will jointly agree on which actions to use so there is uniformity.A specialist on Pie Corbett as well as lead teachers from West Grove, will provide training in Pie Corbett strategies to the staff in France and then disseminate this information to their pupils. Training will also be provided to pupils and staff relating to IT software and tools that will be used throughout the project."