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Article: City schools coping with dozen languages.
- Article from:
- Peterborough Evening Telegraph (Peterborough, England)
- Article date:
- November 3, 2006
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AN average of 12 different languages are spoken by pupils at Peterborough's primary schools.
The city's population has swelled in recent years with new arrivals from eastern Europe, Portugal and African and Middle Eastern countries.
It means most of the 50-plus schools now have to cater for children whose native tongues range from Polish to the Philippines' Tagalog, with some children starting at school with limited or no English skills.
However, headteachers across Peterborough said they were proud of their diversity and that the multitude of different languages spoken was a benefit to the curriculum rather than holding back other pupils in ...