99% of 630 pupils at Berkshire school class English as ‘additional language’ more as needed. Iqra Slough Islamic Primary is thought to have one of the lowest proportion of English-speaking students in the country.
Faith school: A massive 99% of pupils at The IQRA Islamic School in Slough, Berkshire, class English as an additional language
A Muslim faith school has revealed that less than one per cent of its pupils class English as their main language.
Of the 630 youngsters at Iqra Slough Islamic Primary School in Berkshire, just ten are non-Muslim and more than 99 per cent class English as an ‘additional’ language.
The school had faced educational meltdown 18 months ago after a bad Ofsted report, but is now ‘making good progress’, as bosses have claimed that ‘faith has paid off’.
The school’s board of governors’ chairman, Zafar Ali, said he hoped their improving Ofsted results would see more parents of non-Muslim children put their names down to attend.
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