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Article: Diversity speaks volumes in school with 30 languages.
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- The Star (Sheffield) (Sheffield, England)
- Article date:
- November 21, 2006
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By Mike Russell
IT'S not so much a school, more of a mini-United Nations.
With more than 30 languages spoken, Abbeydale Grange can justly claim to be Sheffield's most multi-cultural school.
From Tagalog to Tigrani, Mandarin to Mongolian and Somali to Swahili, it sometimes seems as if almost everyone has a different mother tongue.
It's also the city's smallest secondary, with 640 pupils based on its campus at Millhouses.
Thirteen-year-old Aida Shirazi has been at the school for five months, arriving in the UK with her parents from Iran.
"It has helped me improve my English and I feel at home here. I think it is very ...