first school

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Noun[edit]

first school (plural first schools)

  1. (UK, education) In the three-tier education system, a school for children until thee age of eight or nine.
    Synonym: lower school
    Coordinate terms: middle school, upper school, high school
    • 2017, David Leat, Enquiry and Project Based Learning, page 171:
      For six months in 2015, a class of 9-year-olds from a first school in rural Northumberland (29 children) planned and planted a hay meadow in a local garden […]
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see first,‎ school.
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