ewbury Park Primary School, located in Redbridge, northeast London, has a competitive edge that no other school in the world can probably equal-it teaches its 850 students 40 languages.

According to British newspaper The Independent, the school has adopted a policy of teaching each language spoken by the 40 ethnic groups represented in the school.

The languages taught at Newbury Park are Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Cantonese, Catalan, Dari, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Lingala, Lithuanian, Mandarin, Mauritian, Creole, Nepali, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Sinhala, Slovak, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Tagalog/Filipino, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Twi, Urdu, and Yoruba. The school is planning to make Latin as its 41st language.

According to Joe Debono, who runs the "language of the month" program, teaching the native tongue of the students to others is "a way of celebrating the ethnic diversity of the school and not seeing it as a problem".

Every month, Debono chooses a pupil to present lessons in his or her native tongue. The class starts learning the foreign language by greeting each other in the language and then recites more useful conversational phrases.

The language of the month program in the school has been recognized by schools not only in the United Kingdom but from other countries as well, such as Denmark and Finland whose delegates have visited Newbury Park.