primary school

noun

|Updated on: 10 Aug 2018

Examples: primary school in a Sentence

Definition of primary school

1 : a school usually including the first three grades of elementary school but sometimes also including kindergarten

2 : elementary school

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Examples of primary school in a Sentence

She goes to primary school.

Recent Examples of primary school from the Web

Marta Camacho, a 70-year-old retired primary school teacher, stood on a fountain to get a glimpse of Lopez Obrador, 64, driving through the streets after the electoral institute declared his victory.

— Time, "'I Am Here to Salute My President': Mexicans Celebrate Lopez Obrador's Left-Wing Landslide," 2 July 2018
Nova Pioneer has plenty of competition: in 2013-17 the number of private primary schools almost doubled and the number of private secondaries rose by half.

— The Economist, "Elite private schools are booming in Kenya," 21 June 2018
At one camp, housed in a dilapidated primary school, two toilets serve 10,000 people.

— joe parkinson, WSJ, "Dwindling Farmland Sparks a Deadly Conflict in Nigeria," 27 May 2018
At least 224 primary schools and 42 secondary schools in Wajir County can no longer function after non-local teachers fled.

— Washington Post, "Teachers flee, schools close in Kenya with al-Shabab attacks," 5 May 2018
Albarran and Moser attended primary school and played basketball together at Sts.

— suzanne baker, Naperville Sun, "Porter Moser, headed to Final Four as Loyola coach, deeply tied to his Naperville hometown," 30 Mar. 2018
Furth made a fortune with his law practice and lived a flamboyant lifestyle, yet gave away millions to endow a small Catholic primary school in San Francisco in memory of his late daughter.

— carl nolte, SFChronicle.com, "Memorial set for Fred Furth, noted SF attorney and Sonoma County vintner," 11 July 2018
April 25, 2018 Socopó, Venezuela —It is mid-morning on a weekday yet all that can be heard in the once-bustling corridors of the Orlando Garcia state primary school is the swish of palm trees outside in the wind.

— vivian sequera and francisco aguilar, The Christian Science Monitor, "As economic crisis worsens, schools empty in Venezuela," 25 Apr. 2018
Lawmakers highlighted McCarter’s role as an international director for Each One Feed One, a nonprofit that operates a primary school and medical clinic in northeastern rural Kenya.

— chicago tribune staff, chicagotribune.com, "Morning Spin: Longtime Berrios foe wants his job as Cook County Democratic Party chairman," 29 Mar. 2018

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