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first school

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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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The number of children who were toilet-trained before starting school this year has increased significantly in a city where parents were given potty training guides with their first school offers.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

LSU is far from the first school to explore signing actual pros—either ones who didn’t make the big time, or arriving from other leagues in other countries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 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

So it was in Llandaff two years later, when I was six years old, that I went to my first school.

From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl

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