primary school
a school usually covering the first three or four years of elementary school and sometimes kindergarten.
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Children in primary schools were reportedly warned by their teachers not to attend the weekend protests—a haunting throwback to the age of Communist youth indoctrination and intimidation.
Alexey Navalny Is Succeeding Where Putin's Other Opponents Have Failed. Why? | Michael Weiss | January 27, 2021 | TimeAn emerging body of research has shown that younger children in primary schools typically experience mild or no symptoms of the virus and are less likely to transmit it.
Two School Districts Had Different Mask Policies. Only One Had a Teacher on a Ventilator. | by Annie Waldman and Heather Vogell | November 23, 2020 | ProPublica“Only being allowed outside for an hour a day was awful,” said Tessa Patrao, 27, who is finally back at work as a primary school teacher after the 112-day stay-at-home order.
A city offers harsh lessons after emerging from one of the world’s longest lockdowns | Claire Zillman, reporter | October 28, 2020 | FortuneIn July, Meira Levinson, a professor of education at Harvard, co-authored an article in The New England Journal of Medicine laying out how to reopen primary schools.
In Denmark the positivity rate was at 6 percent when primary schools reopened, and under 1 percent when high schools reopened a month later.
When Can Schools Safely Reopen? The Answer Is Part Science, Part Guesswork. | Kaleigh Rogers (kaleigh.rogers@fivethirtyeight.com) | August 19, 2020 | FiveThirtyEight
She saw her first tourist 10 years ago, three years before the village got a primary school.
He was killed in the attack, which Boya Dee tweeted happened "right next to a primary school."
Kate was visiting the Willows primary school, which is, against all the odds, one of the city's most successful primaries.
Kate Dazzles in Erdem on Manchester's 'Shameless' Estate | Tom Sykes | April 23, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTAmong his eight primary school classmates, 24-year-old Moshe Uzan says that only one other remains in Tunisia.
Would Lanza really have been gang-rushed by fast-thinking primary school students if he stopped to reload?
There are fifty little boys and girls who go to the Blank street primary school.
There seemed to be no disagreement on the question of educating boys and girls of primary-school age together.
Report of the Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents | Oswald Chettle Mazengarb et al.Acts of indecency had occurred long before they went to the post-primary school.
Report of the Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents | Oswald Chettle Mazengarb et al.The desirability of co-education at the post-primary school level, however, was frequently disputed.
Report of the Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents | Oswald Chettle Mazengarb et al.In planning one post-primary school the rate of 0.7 children to a family was adopted.
Report of the Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents | Oswald Chettle Mazengarb et al.
British Dictionary definitions for primary school
(in Britain) a school for children below the age of 11. It is usually divided into an infant and a junior section
(in the US and Canada) a school equivalent to the first three or four grades of elementary school, sometimes including a kindergarten
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