first school

English

Noun

first school (plural first schools)

1. (UK, education) In the three-tier education system, a school for children until thee age of eight or nine.

   Synonym: lower school

   Coordinate terms: middle school, upper school, high school

   • 2017, David Leat, Enquiry and Project Based Learning, page 171:

     For six months in 2015, a class of 9-year-olds from a first school in rural Northumberland (29 children) planned and planted a hay meadow in a local garden […]

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see first,‎ school.