Monday 25 February 2013

British primary school where every single pupil is 'foreign' and speaks English as a second language

Makes you Wonder where are the local English Kids ? 

Gladstone Primary School in Peterborough most multi-cultural in Britain, But no British children

A primary school with more than 400 pupils has become the first in the country where no children speak English as their mother tongue.

Punjabi Urdu, Portuguese, Czech, Polish, Russian and several African dialects are among the 20 foreign languages spoken at Gladstone Primary School.

But it has thrived in the face of adversity. Only 14 months ago the school was rated ‘inadequate’ by Ofsted, the lowest of four ratings. Last month it was upgraded to ‘good’, the second highest.

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