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infant school

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noun

  1. (in England and Wales) a school for children aged between 5 and 7 Compare junior 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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Scientists monitored pollution in two classrooms at an infant school in Guildford, UK.

From Science Daily Mar. 12, 2024

The mother and father of seven-year-olds Joseph and Isabella said the pair thrived when they went to infant school together in Wokingham, Berkshire.

From BBC Sep. 15, 2021

My earliest reading memory My grandmother, a retired infant school teacher, taught me to read when I was six and everyone else had given up.

From The Guardian Jul. 13, 2019

If there is a lesson for climate scientists, it's "don't behave like the infant school football team and follow the ball," he said.

From Scientific American May 10, 2012

But religious instruction, whether implanted in our minds by our father's fireside, in the infant school, or the Sabbath school, will never be forgotten.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 by Various

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