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根据星空新闻的官方报告，在英格兰的240所学校中把英语作为第二外语的学生超过了在校生的90%。
In the last academic year, Department of Education census figures reveal five primary schools in England - of nearly 17,000 in total - had no native speakers, with 100% of their pupils speaking English as a second language.
上个学年，教育部门的统计指出英格兰的总共约1万7千所小学校中有5所学校完全没有英语为母语的教职工，而且这些学校所有的学生均使用英语作为他们的第二语言。
Sky News has visited one of the five schools - the Sacred Heart Primary School in Tipton, West Midlands - which has since admitted three native speakers.
星空新闻采访了5所学校中的一所，位于中英格兰西部蒂普顿市的圣心小学。这所小学到目前为止已经接纳了3名英语母语的老师。
Staff at the primary school believe they have a winning formula for teaching children from a diverse community.
这所学校的老师们相信他们拥有非常成功的教学模式去教导来自不同文化背景的学生。
English is the second language for 95% of the school's 128 pupils - the vast majority of them with parents from Pakistan or Bangladesh.
在这所学校的128名小学生中95%的学生使用英语作为他们的第二语言，而这些学生的父母大多来自于巴基斯坦或是孟加拉国。
Sacred Heart Primary has recently won a regional award for its inclusive policy and standards of education.
最近圣心小学还赢得了政策兼容性和教学质量的学区表彰。
Head teacher Melanie Gee told Sky News she takes a pragmatic approach: "Our school is really no different to any other. We have a curriculum and all the lessons are taught in English.
校长梅兰妮.吉告诉星空新闻她的务实的方法：“我们学校跟别的学校没有什么 不同。我们有一门课，这门课所有的课程都采用英语教学。”
"We have got bilingual staff. Children in the very early days will probably communicate to the staff in nursery in their home language, but within a couple of weeks we find that they are communicating in English.
“我们聘请了很多双语教工。在早期孩子们很可能用他们的母语跟幼儿园老师交谈，但几周之后我们就发现孩子们普遍都改为了用英语交流了。”
"The majority of our bilingual staff, if we use them, are actually to communicate more with the parents rather than with the children."
“我们之所以聘请双语教工，更多的原因是因为这些教工更多的时候需要跟父母们交谈而不是孩子们。”
The school has children who speak Urdu, Bengali, Punjabi, French, Polish and Tamil as well as English.
学校里有讲乌尔都语，孟加拉语，旁遮普语，法语，波兰语，泰米尔语和英语的孩子。
Helen Pflaumer, ethnic minority achievement leader at Sacred Heart, said they encourage the children to interact with staff in English the majority of the time.
海伦.弗莱蒙是圣心少数族裔成就领头人，她说他们鼓励孩子在大多数时间用英语与教工交流。
"There may be an occasion where if they want to discuss something in more depth we can say use your home language if that's going to be easier for you.
“当孩子们希望和老师进行更深入的交谈的时候，他们多会选择使用他们的母语，因为这样交流能更方便的进行。”
"But obviously we tend to feed back in English largely because of the English speaking teachers. The children pick up English so quickly and they and the parents are very happy about that."
“但是很明显，那些英语为母语的老师更倾向于用英语来回答孩子们的问题。孩子们学习英语如此快速，家长们对此都感到很开心。”
Occasionally, says Ms Gee, they need to bring in an interpreter which stretches the budget. But she maintains that it never compromises the running of the school.
还有的时候，吉女士说他们需要一些口译人员来帮助完成工作，为此他们不得不增涨预算。但她同时强调他们不会因此而妥协以至于影响学校运作。
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