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Lizzy Buchan & Lorna Hughes

Schools in UK preparing to welcome 100,000 refugee children from Ukraine

Plans are being drawn up for British schools to welcome 100,000 refugee children forced to leave their homes during the crisis in Ukraine.

England's Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi - who fled to Britain as a child from Iraq - auto-translate software was being rolled out on online learning hub Oak National Academy to help pupils who speak Russian or Ukrainian. Pupils will be able to access quizzes, video lessons with translated subtitles and worksheets, the Mirror reports.

The translation function will build on earlier work translating the online lessons into common languages other than English spoken in UK schools, such as Urdu and Polish. Speaking at the Association of School and College Leaders’ annual conference in Birmingham on Friday, Mr Zahawi said: “We will continue to support Ukrainians in any way we can.

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