A school with pupils from more than 50 countries is to teach them all English as a foreign language. City of Leeds comprehensive, which has been transformed by the arrival of large numbers of migrants, is thought to be the first in the country to take the extraordinary step. At the last count it had on its books 55 nationalities and 50 languages or dialects, from Czech to Urdu. The multi-ethnic City of Leeds School is to teach English as a foreign language to all of its 314 pupils The school's head, Georgiana Sale, hopes giving the pupils a better grounding in English will boost results
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Native English speakers are a minority at 314-pupil City of Leeds School
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The head teacher says many students are not even literate in own language
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Georgiana Sale says: 'Sometimes we are the first to put a pen in their hand'
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All students will be taught English as a foreign language to raise standards
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The community secondary is judged to 'require improvement' by Ofsted
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Largest ethnic groups are of Pakistani, Czech, Roma and Traveller heritage
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