first school
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Meaning
(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
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see first, school.
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A Draper charter has become the first school in Utah to be forced to close due to a COVID-19 outbreak.
At age seventeen he started his first school magazine, Papyrus; citation the Jesuits threatened to expel him for publicizing Émile Zola 's scandalous novels in the school.
Education seeAlso The first school in Manitoba was founded in 1818 by Roman Catholic missionaries in present-day Winnipeg; the first Protestant school was established in 1820.
In 1849 the Parsis established their first school (co-educational, which was a novelty at the time, but would soon be split into separate schools for boys and girls) and the education movement quickened.
Education The first school in the vicinity of Cardonald was established at Halfway in 1790, by a local blacksmith who taught the rudiments of reading, writing and arithmetic.
In his first school year, Mao befriended an older student, Xiao Zisheng ; together they went on a walking tour of Hunan, begging and writing literary couplets to obtain food.