Despite being separated by over 500 miles of land and sea, schools in Perthshire and France have managed to work together to develop a interactive learning tool.
Launched at Dunning Primary School, the disc has been developed over the last two years through the European Union’s Comenius Regio programme.
Teachers from Dunning and St Madoes primaries, as well as Perth and Blairgowrie high schools, had joined their French counterparts from the Tregor province of Brittany to complete the project.
Their work and that of staff from Treguier and Jean le Morvan primary schools and E Renan and Sept Iles secondaries has helped create 13 original stories and activities.
These have been illustrated and recorded by both Scottish and French pupils before being animated onto the CD.
Co-ordinated by Richard Tallaron, director of language organisation Le Francais en Ecosse Europe based in Edinburgh, and Nadine Fraize from Langues et Terre in Brittany, the Comenius Regio project is one of only three in Scotland.
The resource will now be made available to all schools in Perth and Kinross and is based on a cross-curricular approach to modern language teaching at primary and secondary level, in line with the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence.
It is also hoped lasting links have been built between the participating schools, with information and good practice shared in the process of creating the CD.
Mr Tallaron also praised the project, describing it as an “exciting” way of bring two cultures together.
He added, “Teachers from both sides have worked really hard to produce some quality resources, which will be enjoyed by teachers and pupils in both countries.”