While English is used in the classrooms of St Margaret's Primary School, in Whalley Range, it's a different matter in the playground.
The languages that can be heard include: Punjabi, Urdu, Arabic, English, Somali, Brava, Kurdish, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Bangla, French, Lingala, Hausa, Tonga, Bemba, Shona, Slovakian, Yoruba, Akan, Polish, Miripuri, Serbian, Creole, Farsi, Patwa, Maltese, Portuguese, Spanish, Swahili, German, Danish, Dutch and Ibo.
Ninety-three per cent of the 355 pupils at the Church of England school are from ethnic-minority backgrounds and five children are from refugee families.
Headteacher Liz Richardson said: "Speaking another language is a tremendous asset in the world in which we live and multicultural education is a strength of our school." Tweet
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It sounds like an interesting school. I'm glad that only English is spoken in school though, because if these other nationalities wish to settle here they should integrate with us instead of the other way around. Surely this will lead to a greater tolerance of other religions as well.
I think that school could be a very interesting school inded and they could all share there cultures with each other.
What a great show of multi intergrated community.
thats cool.
Our local school has some 80 languages and dialects with English in the classes.