The primary school where just FOUR pupils out of over 400 speak English as mother tongue

[European blood]

A School with more than 400 pupils has only four for whom English is their mother tongue.

In one of Britain’s most extreme cases, it has emerged that less than 1 per cent of pupils at Bradford Moor Community Primary School speak English as their first language.

The school is in one of the city’s most deprived areas, and 90 per cent of the 417 pupils are from Pakistan. Many arrive at the school unable to speak a word of English.

A leading think-tank said it was a worrying sign that cities were becoming ‘racially segregated’ and leading ‘parallel lives’, while MPs described the situation as ‘unacceptable’.

Almost one million children in the UK speak English as a second language. Last month, the Mail reported on St Matthew’s Primary School in Redhill, Surrey, where pupils can speak 44 languages.

A snapshot survey of Bradford’s primary schools revealed that more than half of pupils spoke English as a second language.

Criticism: Yorkshire MP for Shipley Philip Davies said allowing children to start school with scant knowledge of their adopted home's language was 'totally unacceptable'

In three schools, fewer than ten children spoke English as their native tongue. Last night Shipley MP Philip Davies criticised parents who allowed their children to start school with scant knowledge of their adopted home’s language.

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[Gordon Bennett]

That this school should be situated in Bradford comes as no surprise.

With European immigrants, the language and cultural problems are temporary; Poles, Slovaks and others will intergrate in time. The Pakistanis - though they will probably learn English just fine eventually - will mostly make no effort to ever become British.