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first school

British  

noun

  1. a school for children aged between 5 and 8 or 9 Compare middle school

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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I myself was born blind, and remember very well my first school report, when I was six, which advised my parents to send me to a school for children with learning disabilities.

From BBC • Jun. 24, 2026

In 1991, when I was 17, my first school play was an overly emotional musical about Vietnam at the Royal National Theatre’s Connections competition in London.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

"I never got to see his first steps, his first word, his first tooth, his first school day," Johanne says.

From BBC • Nov. 21, 2025

My first school production was an adaptation of “A Thurber Carnival,” a James Thurber revue.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2025

She set out my brothers’ newly tailored clothes for the first school day.

From "Tasting the Sky" by Ibtisam Barakat

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