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primary school

noun

a school usually covering the first three or four years of elementary school and sometimes kindergarten.
elementary school.

primary school

(in Britain) a school for children below the age of 11. It is usually divided into an infant and a junior section
(in the US and Canada) a school equivalent to the first three or four grades of elementary school, sometimes including a kindergarten

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First recorded in 1795–1805

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Two primary schools in Islington borough are to close at the end of the summer term due to falling pupil numbers, it has been confirmed.

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The local authority had installed only gender neutral toilets at the replacement Earlston primary school, which recently opened.

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An Essex primary school head teacher says a national free breakfast club scheme for pupils is "indicative of society".

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A charity is calling for all primary school children to be taught how to avoid getting involved in knife crime as part of the national curriculum.

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Parents and teachers at a Sheffield primary school have welcomed the beginning of a scheme offering government-funded breakfast clubs.

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