MORE than 1, 600 youngsters in Doncaster's schools do not speak English as their first language

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English is pupils' second language


05 May 2008
By Mark Hookham
Westminster reporter

MORE than 1,600 youngsters in Doncaster's schools do not speak English
as their first language, The Star has learned. And at one borough
school, Stirling Primary School, at Balby Bridge, youngsters with
English as a first language are in the minority. The figures, for
January this year and released by the Department for Children, Schools
and Families, show that in Doncaster's primary schools, 872 youngsters
have a foreign language as their mother tongue. It represents 4.4 per
cent of all pupils in that age range. The figure for borough secondary
schools is 769 youngsters, 3.6 per cent of the total pupils. But the
figures are dwarfed by some other parts of South Yorkshire. In
Sheffield, just over 15 per cent of primary school pupils have English
as a second language.

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http://www.thestar.co.uk/doncaster/English-is-pupils39-second-language.4050320.jp



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