Definition of "primary school" []

• A school usually including the first three or four grades of elementary school and sometimes kindergarten. (noun)
• See elementary school. (noun)

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• "—Mohammed Siddique Khan, a British primary school teacher, who blew himself up on the London Underground, speaking on his al-Qaeda “martyrdom” videotape in 2005"
• "Ringleader Mohammed Siddique Khan, known widely as “Sid,” was a beloved teacher at a primary school in the northern city of Leeds, teaching handicapped children, and the happily married thirty-year-old father of a baby daughter, with another kid on the way."
• "Had none of the object been visible the probability is that she would not have dreamed of uncovering it; but the sight of part of what was obviously a piece of modelling in clay, and therefore something upon which she felt herself to be an authority, for she had trained for primary school teaching, proved to be too stimulating to her curiosity to be ingored."