A primary school, where more than half of students don’t speak English, is said to have become the first in Britain to use an electronic translator to allow its teachers to communicate.
Around 60 per cent of 384 pupils at Manor Park Primary School in Birmingham now communicate with teachers using the system; pupils type in questions using their native language, which is then translated verbally into English for teachers, the British media reported. Teachers type instructions for pupils which can then be translated into 25 different languages. English-speaking students also use the translator to communicate with their foreign classmates. “This is the sort of tool we can use to engage with children who have recently arrived in the country and have very little spoken English. It can vary, but at any one time we have 30-plus languages being spoken at the school, headteacher Jason Smith was quoted as saying.
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Mom dies in car crash after baby is shot dead
Sydney, July 7: The Australian police was investigating on Wednesday after a young mother crashed her car and died, shortly after her baby was shot dead and her partner was critically injured.
The infant was found in a pool of blood by a neighbour after the father, 36, staggered out of their north-eastern home with a gunshot wound to his stomach, witnesses said.
“A man went in there and found the little fella on the floor,” Jodiee Bennett, who lives across the street, told AAP news agency.
“They thought he had hit his head on the tiles, but apparently that was one of the gunshot wounds that the baby copped in the head,” she said. —AFP