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junior school

American  

noun

British.

  1. a school for children aged seven to eleven, similar to a U.S. elementary school.

junior school British  

noun

  1. (in England and Wales) a school for children aged between 7 and 11 Compare infant school

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Etymology

Origin of junior school

First recorded in 1870–75

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Until 2016, Arabic was the language of instruction in Somalia at junior schools and English at secondary and tertiary levels.

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Then from junior school she decided she wanted to work with dolphins and began scuba diving at eight.

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A junior school has been closed after a building surveyor identified "urgent concerns" with some of its ceilings.

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His mum, Alison, said when he moved to a larger junior school there was a "catalogue of repeated errors which caused severe concern his anaphylaxis wasn't being managed safely".

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Sharon said Oliver was autistic and that had made it difficult to spend so much time with so many people when moving to a large secondary school from a 150-pupil junior school.

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