How to Use primary school in a Sentence

primary school

noun
  • She goes to primary school.
  • About 100 of them are from the primary school and the rest from the secondary school.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The first lesson of the day is aimed at pupils in the first year of primary school.
    The Economist, 27 Feb. 2020
  • These young women would have been in late primary school at the start of Gilead.
    Rena Gross, Billboard, 16 May 2018
  • Parts of the Signature look as though they’ve been turned over to a primary school.
    Helen Shaw, Vulture, 17 July 2021
  • It’s the classic Aussie uniform skirt, the kind that all primary school girls wore in the early 2000s.
    Brooke Blurton, refinery29.com, 12 Dec. 2022
  • The primary school is assigned the Aspire scores from the school that serves older pupils.
    Cynthia Howell, arkansasonline.com, 26 Nov. 2023
  • Jan worked as a sports coach while Els was a primary school teacher.
    Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 1 July 2024
  • The primary school on Mink Hollow Road serves students from 2½ to 12 years of age.
    Susan Soldavin, baltimoresun.com, 7 June 2019
  • At the time of this primary school photo op, the Black Adam star was living in Hawaii and rocked a fitting wardrobe.
    Zoey Lyttle, Peoplemag, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The five secondary day schools in Kakuma face many of the same problems as primary schools.
    Sarah Butrymowicz, Marie Claire, 7 Jan. 2019
  • The first children to go back to school will be those in pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, and primary schools.
    Annabelle Timsit, Quartz, 10 May 2020
  • According to the auction house, the primary school paid just £1 (or about $1.27) for the copy during a book sale.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 23 June 2024
  • In the only bit of good news for Africa, more children seem to be in primary school than in years before.
    Alexander Onukwue, Quartz, 5 Sep. 2022
  • In primary school, most boys couldn’t get enough of football, but football bored me.
    Arthur Musah, Quartz, 18 Oct. 2021
  • George, who’s now six years old, is currently in his third year of primary school.
    Raisa Bruner, Time, 7 Oct. 2019
  • The show, which follows the daily lives of a primary school class, has been a ratings hit on the Finnish broadcaster YLE.
    Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Across a valley and atop another hill, under the shade of a row of thick trees is Marawara’s primary school.
    Susannah George, Washington Post, 12 July 2020
  • According to Martin Collins, the acting head of the primary school, the princess went out of her way to offer the boy some support.
    Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Valles didn’t have a teaching degree but got a job at a primary school with his wife at a hamlet in the forest.
    Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2021
  • In fact, his design for a primary school in Gando was part of his studies.
    Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Forty years ago, in the region’s heyday as a mining area, Bobal primary school had more than 300 pupils.
    The Economist, 28 June 2018
  • Dua recalls a game from her primary school years in London called kiss-chase.
    Jen Wang, Vogue, 10 May 2022
  • The hiring of a former primary school teacher as coach has plenty to do with it.
    Steve Douglas, chicagotribune.com, 14 Nov. 2019
  • There was only primary school and after that most of the girls and young people got married, had children, and worked on the farm.
    Chantal James, Vogue, 13 Dec. 2021
  • Sim used to walk through Brompton Cemetery in London to get to primary school.
    New York Times, 23 May 2022
  • The plan came together to move the primary school to the vacant Brindlee Mountain Middle School about three miles away.
    Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al, 20 May 2020
  • Both he and the boy in the primary school attack were apprehended.
    Dusan Stojanovic, ajc, 7 May 2023
  • The couple also heard from primary school children on the show, and later from the young creators of a campaign video.
    Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 15 Nov. 2018
  • Christelle Marie, a teacher at a nearby primary school who had brought her class, wept while telling me about growing up near Juno Beach.
    Catherine Porter, New York Times, 11 June 2024

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