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A Unique Child Inclusion: Put into words

Children speaking different languages, or very little at all, learn to communicate happily at a nursery visited by Annette Rawstrone.

The outstanding inclusive practice at Howard Street Nursery School in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, has been hailed by Ofsted. The 52-place nursery has a history of working with asylum seeker children and those with English as an additional language. They have managed to integrate their support of these children with the work they do with ten children attending who have speech and language difficulties.

Eleven different languages are spoken by children at the nursery this year, ranging from Asian heritage languages to Turkish. 'To have all these different cultures that we can use as part of our teaching is just fantastic,' says headteacher Lynda Barlow.

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