{"id":6696,"date":"2008-03-19T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/03\/19\/tamil-children-in-an-uk-school-that-speaks-their-language\/"},"modified":"2008-03-19T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-19T12:00:00","slug":"tamil-children-in-an-uk-school-that-speaks-their-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/03\/19\/tamil-children-in-an-uk-school-that-speaks-their-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamil Children In An UK School That Speaks Their Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/pages\/live\/articles\/news\/news.html?in_article_id=529768&#038;in_page_id=1766&#038;ito=1490\">www.dailymail.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">LONDON, UK, March 11, 2008: Children Newbury Park Primary School learn key phrases in more than 40 languages &#8211; all spoken fluently by one or more pupils at the school. By the time they leave for secondary school, they boast far more than a mere smattering of French or Cantonese. <\/p>\n<p>They can say something in everything from Afrikaans to Hebrew, Japanese to Norwegian. Classes start by greeting each other in that month&#8217;s chosen language. Teachers say Newbury Park&#8217;s &#8220;language of the month&#8221; program has also helped tackle the sense of alienation felt by newcomers to the school in Redbridge, East London. In little more than a decade, the proportion of pupils at the school who do not speak English at home has doubled to 80 per cent. <\/p>\n<p>The biggest ethnic group are Tamils who have fled the civil war in Sri Lanka. &#8220;You have 250 Tamil children in the school. It is just polite to greet them in their own language and recognize their culture,&#8221; said teacher Joe Debono, who runs the language scheme. &#8220;It gives the children a lot of self-esteem,&#8221; he explains. &#8220;And it is a way of celebrating the ethnic diversity of the school and not seeing it as a problem.&#8221; <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.dailymail.co.uk LONDON, UK, March 11, 2008: Children Newbury Park Primary School learn key phrases in more than 40 languages &#8211;,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}