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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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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

The first school in Wales to introduce a pouch system in September 2023, head teacher Ian Gerrard called the impact "nothing short of transformational" when the ban was introduced for the whole school at once.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026

It was back in mid February when the first school wars posters seemed to pop up on social media from accounts based in east and south London.

From BBC • Mar. 9, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2025

The first school day of the year was about three minutes old, and already I wanted to be away from here.

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce

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