In this webinar Sarah Chicken and Alison Porter will discuss the approaches they have used to develop innovative pedagogic practice in primary and early years settings. Their projects took place against a backdrop of policy change. In Wales, children’s participative rights are now part of the early years curriculum framework; in England, learning a Modern Foreign Language has become part of primary KS 2. In conversation with Sinead Harmey and Bernadette Holmes, they will reflect on the role of classroom-based research in supporting professional development and the conditions that facilitate or hinder this.