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Princeton's WordNet

  1. grade school, grammar school, elementary school, primary schoolnoun

    a school for young children; usually the first 6 or 8 grades

Wiktionary

  1. primary schoolnoun

    The first formal, obligatory school. Usually begins with kindergarten or first grade and ends at fifth or sixth grade.

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  1. Primary school

    A primary school (in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, and South Africa), elementary school or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary education of children who are four to eleven years of age. Primary schooling follows pre-school and precedes secondary schooling. The International Standard Classification of Education considers primary education as a single phase where programmes are typically designed to provide fundamental skills in reading, writing, and mathematics and to establish a solid foundation for learning. This is ISCED Level 1: Primary education or first stage of basic education.

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  1. primary school

    Primary school is the initial stage of formal education that children typically attend between the ages of 5-11 (or 6-12 depending on the country). It is a foundational academic setting where children learn fundamental skills in literacy, numeracy, science, and social studies. Primary schools usually provide a broad-based curriculum that focuses on developing a child's cognitive abilities, social skills, and overall personality.

Wikidata

  1. Primary school

    An elementary school or primary school is an institution where children receive the first stage of academic learning known as elementary or primary education. Elementary school is the preferred term in some countries, particularly those in North America, where the terms grade school and grammar school are also used. Primary school is the preferred term in the United Kingdom, France, India, Ireland, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Australia, Latin America, Nepal, South Africa, New Zealand, Malaysia and in most publications of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of primary school in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of primary school in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of primary school in a Sentence

  1. Mary Redmayne:

    Parents were asked at what age their child first owned or used a mobile phone. The median age was 8 years, it seems that many parents of primary school children want to be able to contact their child, but we have not researched this.

  2. Said Bennett:

    Respectively, those are the percentage of proficient readers in second grade for the school years 2018-2019, 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 at Brewbaker Primary School in Montgomery, Alabama.

  3. Samantha Lee:

    Girls as young as twelve and thirteen, some just finishing primary school, are being taken by police to a strange place and ordered by someone with a huge amount of power to take off their clothes.

  4. Zhang Junran:

    It started from my grandfather, then my father, and then it was passed down to me. My kids studied in primary school, and then went college. Their education was completely paid for by money made from our monkey performances.

  5. Andy Winmill:

    We have been working closely with one local primary school, so we using their kitchen to cook up the stuff provided by Hampton Manor, some businesses are just having to shut down, but it's exciting to see business getting creative in how they can survive.


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