What does school mean

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school

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

school

I.noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a family/school etc outing

▪ a class outing to the ballet

a farm/factory/school etc gate

▪ I carefully shut the farm gate behind me.

▪ Lots of parents were waiting outside the school gate.

a film school

▪ He graduated from film school in 1998.

a high school/elementary school student American English

▪ Her son is a high school student.

a high school/elementary school student American English

▪ Her son is a high school student.

a school bag

▪ Hey, don't forget your school bag!

a school bus

▪ Hurry up or you'll miss the school bus!

a school counsellor (=working with the students at a school)

▪ I worked for three years as a school counsellor.

a school day (=a day when children go to school)

▪ It’s a school day tomorrow, so you need an early night.

a school desk

▪ The children are at their school desks by 8:30 in the morning.

a school friend

▪ I met some old school friends for lunch.

a school inspection

▪ The arrangements for school inspections have been greatly improved.

a school lunch (=a lunch provided by a school)

▪ Free school lunches are provided for the poorest children.

a school meal (=provided by a school)

▪ Many of the children are receiving free school meals.

a school play

▪ I got a small part in the school play.

a school trip (=when children and teachers from a school go somewhere)

▪ She went on a school trip to Tuscany.

a school/pod of whales (=a group of whales)

▪ A school of sperm whales was sighted.

a school/prison/club etc rule

▪ He had broken one of the school rules.

a school/university term

▪ The school term was about to start.

a school/university/college library

▪ She was studying at the college library.

a shoal/school of fish (=a large group swimming together)

▪ Shoals of little fish were swimming around her.

a university/college/school student

▪ How many college students are politically active?

A-level/high school etc examinations

▪ The school usually achieves good results in GCSE examinations.

an exclusive school

▪ Marjorie went to an exclusive girls’ school.

an office/school/hospital etc building

▪ Our office building is just ten minutes’ walk from where I live.

approved school

boarding school

business school

charm school

charter school

church school

comprehensive school

▪ Kylie goes to the local comprehensive.

compulsory schooling/education

▪ 11 years of compulsory education

continuation school

convent school

day school

doing the school run

▪ We hope to increase the safety of children who walk to school and cut the number of cars doing the school run.

driving school

elementary school

factory/hospital/school etc closure

▪ the problem of school closures

feeder school

finishing school

grad school

grade school

graduate school

grammar school

high school exams

▪ Greg got good grades in all of his high school exams.

high school

▪ We were friends in high school.

high school/college diploma

independent schoolespecially BrE (= one not owned or paid for by the government)

intermediate school

junior high school

junior school

law school

leave home/school/college etc

▪ How old were you when you left home your parents’ home?

▪ My daughter got a job after she left school.

▪ The lawsuit will be postponed until the president leaves office.

lower school

magnet school

medical school

middle school

new school

▪ new school hip hop artists

night school

nursery school

old school tie

▪ a system based on social class and the old school tie

parochial school

play catch/house/tag/school etc

▪ Outside, the children were playing cowboys and Indians.

prep school

preparatory school

primary (school) educationBritish English, elementary education American English (= for children aged between 5 and 11)

▪ The government has announced plans to improve the quality of primary school education.

primary school

prison/school yard (=an area outside a prison or school where prisoners or students do activities outdoors)

private school

public school

reform school

▪ If you’re not careful, you’ll end up in reform school.

riding school/stables (=place where people learn to ride horses)

sb's absence from work/school

▪ You will be entitled to sick pay in respect of any absence from work through sickness.

sb’s work/business/school address

▪ I sent the letter to her work address.

▪ My business address is on my card.

school age

▪ Children should start doing homework as they approach high school age.

school age

▪ children below school age

school board

school chum

▪ Freddie’s an old school chum of mine.

school dinnersBritish English (= meals provided at school in the middle of the day)

▪ School dinners are served in the canteen.

school discipline

▪ a government report into how to improve school discipline

school district

school friend

school governor

school mates

▪ Most of my school mates are black.

school run (=the journey that parents make each day taking their children to and from school)

▪ the daily school run

school run

▪ We hope to increase the safety of children who walk to school and cut the number of cars doing the school run.

school tie

school/army/police etc uniform

▪ He was still wearing his school uniform.

school/college/university fees

▪ She paid for her college fees by taking a part-time job as a waitress.

school/family crest

school/work clothes

▪ Work clothes tend to be black, blue, or grey.

secondary school

senior high school

senior school

single-sex school (=one for only boys or girls)

▪ a single-sex school

skip school/classespecially AmE

▪ He skipped chemistry class three times last month.

special school

start school/college/work

▪ I started college last week.

state school

summer school

Sunday school

take time off (work/school)

▪ I rang my boss and arranged to take some time off.

teach school/college etcAmerican English (= teach in a school etc)

the primary/secondary/high school etc curriculum (=for particular ages at school)

the school band

▪ She plays the trumpet in the school band.

the school boardAmerican English

▪ The school board voted on the appointment.

the school curriculum

▪ The children carried out the project as part of the school curriculum.

the school team

▪ I played for my school cricket team.

the village hall/school/shop/church

▪ A meeting will be held at the village hall on Tuesday.

the whole school/country/village etc (=all the people in a school, country etc)

▪ The whole town came out for the parade.

trade school

traffic school

university/college/school admissions

university/college/school entry

▪ Japan has one of the highest rates of college and university entry in the world.

upper school

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

comprehensive

▪ Sessions will take place both indoors at the centre and outdoors on the adjacent comprehensive school playing fields.

▪ Wilson has been pushing for a comprehensive school test since he became governor in 1991.

▪ The first, and most orthodox, of these was the 11-18 comprehensive school.

▪ Choice programs in schools typically have greater flexibility and autonomy than are found in traditional comprehensive high schools.

▪ Teachers in comprehensive schools can be as imaginative and as devoted as in any other kind of school.

▪ Studies of large, comprehensive high schools suggested they are inhospitable places for both students and teachers.

▪ In Worcestershire, the education authority is committed to parity of excellence for all of its comprehensive schools.

▪ Our big comprehensive high schools are simply too big.

elementary

▪ His partner is an elementary school principal in town.

▪ Born and raised in Tokyo, Komuro started violin lessons at age 3 and began learning keyboards in elementary school.

▪ Some of the elite kindergartens and elementary schools also protest the advent of baby cram schools even while admitting their young alumni.

▪ The rest were educated from five until fourteen in elementary schools.

▪ In Tampa, Fla., he posed with elementary school students learning how to run businesses.

▪ Then came junior school. Elementary school it was called in those days.

▪ At a recent elementary school appearance, Stack slides easily into his crowd-pleasing presentation.

high

▪ An Aboriginal high school girl from a desert tribe had chanced to see this picture - and all hell had broken loose.

▪ Basic computer literacy is becoming an integral part of education for many high school and college students.

▪ The latest craze sweeping high schools and college dorms across the States is True Crime trading cards.

▪ I look older than I am, at the butt end of my junior year of high school.

▪ I also recruited Elwood Glover straight from high school.

▪ The skinhead students were expelled and transferred to another high school, but the problems at Groves were far from over.

▪ We hire young people without glancing at their high school transcripts and then wonder why they do not work harder in school.

▪ Then 23, she married her high school sweetheart, Dave.

independent

▪ Of the 42,000 who leave independent schools, more than 11,000 go to a top-13 university.

▪ Fees for independent schools are high.

▪ Apart from the local authority-run schools, Pocklington has an independent public school.

▪ On the other hand the public would want inspectors to be independent of the school being inspected.

▪ Pupils in independent schools achieve higher levels of success in public examinations than those at maintained schools.

▪ In Ulster, there are 72 grammar schools out of 238 secondary schools, and no posh independent schools at all.

▪ Parents began to turn in increasing numbers to the independent schools.

junior

▪ One entire wall is devoted to photographs of the various sixth-grade and junior high school graduating classes she taught over the years.

▪ They spend six years in elementary education and three years in junior high school.

▪ Most of us think the teachers are easier to approach in junior high school.

▪ It was Alex's last year in the Penzance junior school and he would be sitting the eleven plus immediately after Christmas.

▪ I teach history at the high school and junior high school levels.

▪ But that argument is unlikely to hold much water at Aldercar junior school outside Nottingham.

▪ Church league to junior high school to high school.

local

▪ On Monday Brandon, a third-grader at a local parochial school, told his teacher about the owl.

▪ But in many rural areas the only real choice is the one local school.

▪ State law, however, gives control of instruction to local school boards.

▪ I attended the local school, went to the swimming baths on Wednesdays and the cinema on Saturdays.

▪ She was an administrator in the local school system.

▪ In the slums of Luanda hundreds of local schools have sprung up in churches, or in modest classrooms built by parents.

▪ It is up to local school authorities to adopt rules controlling the use of such leaves.

medical

▪ Projects are offered in a wide range of science laboratories in the university and medical school.

▪ His parents had assumed he would go to a big university, major in science, and go to medical school.

▪ They never taught me in medical school that I would be doing so much paperwork.

▪ Few other medical schools have such a successful record of attracting research funds.

▪ Blacks, particularly black males, are underrepresented in medical schools across the country.

▪ Already some medical schools have made progress in implementing such schemes.

▪ The alleged cancer connection was disputed by scientists at the University of Arizona medical school in Tucson.

middle

▪ My own work on middle school teachers provides some support for this view.

▪ In middle school, your children would rather attend your execution than have you attend their field trip.

▪ The participation of primary and middle school teachers forms a major part of the methodology.

▪ Such exposure should begin in middle school and increase in intensity and focus in high school.

▪ The establishment of first and middle schools came in the wake of the Plowden Report of 1966.

▪ I tried to meet the administrators from as many high schools and middle schools as possible.

▪ At the time of going press, primary and middle schools are being reorganized.

▪ And what about sites for middle and high schools?

old

▪ The old village school, which closed in 1968, is now a private house and schoolchildren go by bus to Howden.

▪ The only exception was among my childhood friends or old school classmates.

▪ Not everything old is old school.

▪ Hawaiian Tropic was invented in 1969 by a 25-year-#old high school teacher and part-time lifeguard named Ron Rice.

▪ Not everything old is old school.

▪ The facilities are no better at the other four oldest schools.

▪ When we return to our hometowns, a visit to the old school to pay homage is a mandatory ritual.

primary

▪ Her father, a primary school teacher, was also disappointed with her choice.

▪ To some extent the advances made in our primary schools in the wake of the Plowden Report have been squandered.

▪ They can be primary or special schools, mixed groups of teaching and outside agency staff.

▪ Dozens of homes, a church, primary school and shops were also extensively damaged.

▪ For some schools, especially primary schools, it will be the new managerial responsibilities which will bring the most daunting challenge.

▪ Lights were on in the primary school.

▪ Thirty senior class pupils from ten primary schools in the Yarm area will attend a three-day pilot project.

private

▪ Admittedly I was on the Costa del Sol at a private international school and not in the capital.

▪ I mean they go to the private schools, of course.

▪ The Grammar schools were for the most able, bright academic pupils and were run along private school lines.

▪ In other cases, schools escort students back and forth from their private schools to public classrooms.

▪ An obvious example is education, where a child attends either a state school or a private school.

▪ As a consequence, private schools flourished, from the very expensive to the shantytown schools run by women in the slums.

▪ After an education in private schools, he became a laboratory assistant at the Runcorn Soap &038; Alkali Co.

▪ The proposal is popular among parents who are unhappy with public education but can not afford private school tuition.

public

▪ Corporal punishment became an issue both in the armed forces and the public schools.

▪ Can teachers wear distinctively religious clothing in public schools?

▪ This last point was, however, mainly directed towards the public schools and the independent sector generally.

▪ Half the 1, 500 public schools in Gauteng province, which includes Johannesburg and Pretoria, have no electricity.

▪ Can secret societies be prohibited in public schools?

▪ She would have just been going into eighth grade when public schools around the country were implementing the legislation.

secondary

▪ This evidence was collected for primary, secondary and special schools.

▪ In secondary school I ran a little track and led Human Growth Seminars, which was sort of a teen-age est.

▪ Singing in Schools An additional cause for disquiet is the present shortage of music teachers in primary and secondary schools.

▪ The great majority of these Volunteers were secondary school teachers.

▪ A cursory perusal of my file of pupils' pursuits in both primary and secondary schools shows similar experiences and reflections.

▪ At ten, she could dream of completing secondary school.

▪ Even if we wanted to, we could not make secondary school like primary school.

▪ Each zone typically includes a cluster of two or three secondary schools with their supporting primaries and special educational needs provision.

special

▪ The doctor recommended a place at a named independent special school.

▪ Jimi and his colleagues have had another good day at a very special school.

▪ Children with special needs Special schools.

▪ More aid also is proposed for bilingual education, special education and school construction and repairs.

▪ Children with special needs Special schools.

▪ Cedars, he told them, was a special school because it had special teachers with special skills and training.

▪ Nearly three-quarters of these children were educated at special schools, often in special classes.

▪ If it is used only to improve the pupil-teacher ratio within special schools then its value is limited.

whole

▪ The centralizing pressures of the whole school were kept at the lowest level compatible with the necessary coherence of the enterprise.

▪ And if one thing happened, the whole school would be involved.

▪ In addition, the clarification of such issues could well provide the initial stimulus for a whole school language policy.

▪ The year after I was graduated, they built a whole new high school to handle the incoming hordes.

▪ The exuberance that Minton helped generate at Camberwell was related to a deeper excitement animating the whole school.

▪ He denounces Jane before the whole school as a liar, but Helen Burns does not shun her.

▪ The whole school would instantly become hushed and enthralled by the horror, watching.

▪ In a few places, whole high schools have divided into four or five separate academies.

■ NOUN

age

▪ The nineteen whom I interviewed included women with seven, five and four children, several under school age.

▪ Part of the reason is that by the time our toddlers are of school age, we take their talk for granted.

▪ The order will terminate when the child ceases to be of compulsory school age or if a care order is made.

▪ It is estimated that lead reaches toxic levels in the blood of 17 percent of urban children under school age.

▪ First-stage tinies progress to playing variations on Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star and by school age are tackling several tunes.

▪ Constable McLennan stated that children of primary school age were allowed to cycle on the pavement.

▪ But König's interest in schools spread predictably to provision for handicapped people beyond school age.

▪ A member from the panel of parents of school age will be required to attend each of the meetings.

board

▪ The immigrant groups had the numbers, even if they didn't have control of the media or the school board.

▪ In Mobile, Alabama, when the school board proposed a teacher competency test, the union objected.

▪ He sat for sixteen years on the London school board, and seventeen on the London county council.

▪ The school board claimed the dis-missals were required by economic necessity.

▪ Their names went up on a list on the school board as being entitled to free lunches.

▪ He bullied the school board which, in theory, employed him, and he chose to ignore the black protest.

▪ State law, however, gives control of instruction to local school boards.

business

▪ Establish which is the best business school in the country and hire its best professor at double his or her current salary.

▪ If he had suggested business school, I probably would have hit him.

▪ Inside the business school chimed the melody that meant the change of lessons.

▪ Even the business schools are coming around to that point of view.

▪ Nor is it surprising that business schools moved swiftly to meet this demand for new skills.

▪ After all, its merits were preached by our business schools for several decades.

▪ Reynolds wanted new consultants from business schools and commerce or industry, not from other headhunting firms.

child

▪ What of heroic exploits during armed service or the caning of school children?

▪ It is being asked to compensate for the failures of the education system by teaching school children art and history.

▪ Thus the proportion of secondary school children going to grammar schools has always been positively related to social class.

▪ Across the hall, a group of twenty grade school children are at work in two connected rooms.

▪ For example, mandatory polio immunization of all school children has been upheld, despite the religious objections of some parents.

▪ It is hoped that as many as 90 percent of all school children will take part.

▪ But that maneuver would permit the Democrats to demonstrate their devotion to school children.

day

▪ Every school day was a good day.

▪ Almost any child will assert that recess is the best part of the school day.

▪ Althusser offers as examples of ritual practices a funeral, a school day, a political party meeting.

▪ The nun who teaches our class gives us time during the school day to begin.

▪ I have never once heard a staff member say that wouldn't stay after the school day for some activity or other.

▪ It was clear to him that Dan needed to maintain persistence for about ninety minutes of every school day.

▪ This was home throughout his school days until he returned to St Andrews to attend the University.

▪ This fragmentation of the school day gives rise to teaching that is mainly talking, learning that is mainly seat time.

district

▪ The lawsuit demands Arnold turn over the fees he earned in the transactions to the school district.

▪ Cameron and the school district sit down with a neutral third person to negotiate an agreement that both sides find acceptable.

▪ Davis' journey began when the Fort Pierce, Fla., school districts were rezoned after his freshman and sophomore years.

▪ Open-enrollment charter schools draw students from across school district boundaries and are financed with state and local school dollars.

▪ In a small Texas school district, two political factions were vying for control of the school board.

▪ They get their own school district too.

▪ In half-day kindergarten programs, school districts need only half the number of kindergarten teachers and kindergarten classrooms.

▪ Frezzo said discussions are under way with the San Francisco school district to allocate money to pay students to maintain its networks.

drama

▪ A.R. You both went into the theatre together from the same drama school?

▪ People had seen me in my drama school finals.

▪ The drama school audition By now you will have made a definite decision to become an actor - nomatterwhat the problems or obstacles.

▪ Above all you need new audience experience now you are out of drama school.

▪ Payment of fees and grants Fees set by each drama school do differ slightly, though they can be considered basically similar.

▪ He returned in 1987 to attend the national drama school in Krakow.

▪ Being technically aware of your body is very important and the more drama school does about that the better.

friend

▪ He phoned an old school friend named Andy Rourke.

▪ There she was able to board with the family of an old school friend.

▪ If she had been speaking to a school friend she would have called Brian Daddy but this was not acceptable to Jasper.

▪ One successful enterprise was started by two high school friends who loved to eat.

▪ I was sixteen before I took any of my school friends home.

▪ How would my secondary school friends have described me?

▪ Luke and Helen visited families of school friends.

graduate

▪ In the United States the graduate school is the major arena of pedagogic activity and intellectual life.

▪ C., and a substantial amount of money toward graduate school.

▪ There is a variety of approaches in graduate schools and change is more easily envisaged.

▪ This question is the great white whale of graduate school finance courses.

▪ He didn't get on at graduate school at Harvard, finding it pretentious and doctrinaire.

▪ He would also be a marvelous attraction for a graduate school of almost any-thing.

▪ Both of us will teach to support our husbands through graduate school.

▪ She has plans for graduate school.

grammar

▪ But the small grammar schools of the North-East had something which modern schools often lack.They had well-qualified, determined teachers.

▪ Lately, everything I wore that she made for me, apart from my grammar school uniform, seemed frumpy and old-fashioned.

▪ Thus the proportion of secondary school children going to grammar schools has always been positively related to social class.

▪ I leaned against the wall and thought back to a graduation party at my old grammar school.

▪ Three years passed, and I had not lost my ambition to become the headmaster of a grammar school.

▪ The grammar school has its defects.

▪ Eventually we moved to Dorset where my father taught at the local grammar school.

▪ I put I had been to the grammar school and I got my O levels.

holiday

▪ Next to her is Michelle, her daughter, who helps with the bulbs in school holidays.

▪ So, we needed to find a low-cost way to help parents on school holidays, on snow days and in general.

▪ Child: What work did you do in the school holidays?

▪ Lingdale Residents' Association asked the council's permission to organise school holiday activities on spare land in Wilson Street.

▪ I used to help at weekends and during school holidays.

▪ Employee attitudes towards a move may be made more favourable if the employer allows the relocation to take place during school holidays.

▪ Friends with children and those in the teaching profession all wanted to visit us then, in the school holiday time.

▪ The departure date was fixed for 4 August, an ideal time to travel because of school holidays and our diaries.

law

▪ It is said many students leave the Harvard law school with debts of $ 75,000 or more.

▪ Procaccia, the law school dean, believes the intent of the compensation bill is to save money.

▪ I might go to law school next year, and I wanted to find out if I liked it.

▪ He was a young lawyer, just out of law school.

▪ How would I select a law school class?

▪ The number of students enrolled in ABA-approved law schools doubled in the twelve-year period from 1968 to 1979.

▪ Though he entered law school, Kelly was teaching dance a few months later.

▪ Yet law schools understand the dollar as well.

library

▪ Swinton thinks perhaps she stumbled on Orlando in the school library.

▪ The publication also is distributed to youth clubs, clinics, school libraries, drug treatment centers and churches across the country.

▪ To improve secondary school library provision and the quality of book selection. 3.

▪ Look in your school library for information about that or other oil spills.

▪ But she didn't know where to find it in the rows of medical books in the nursing school library.

▪ There are no school libraries in the 175 elementary and junior high schools.

▪ The news of busy, wanted school libraries can help all of us engaged in providing books and related services to schools.

▪ What can Prestel offer the school library?

meal

▪ This boom in fast food is providing strong competition for both staff restaurants and school meal services.

▪ It's very easy to organise some investigative work by children on school meals provision.

▪ They live in the nine skinflint boroughs - mostly Tory authorities - which have scrapped their school meals service on cost grounds.

▪ Assemblies, dress requirements, school meals provision and links with parents may be insensitive to different cultural backgrounds and linguistic diversity.

▪ There is also considerable variation in the proportion of pupils receiving free school meals.

▪ While such concern gained support for the provision of rate-financed school meals, proposals for full state maintenance had far less backing.

▪ The school has 1,308 on roll and 30 per cent take free school meals.

▪ They had been expected to supervise school meals, to distribute milk, to be responsible for children at lunch times.

nursery

▪ Jason was part of a team involved in producing a mural for a nursery school playground.

▪ The children in child-cantered nursery schools tend to play and work in small groups or in pairs.

▪ It runs over 150 primary and nursery schools, and 12 secondary schools teaching agriculture, commerce and industry.

▪ Child care: day care, nursery school, babysitting.

▪ As to her other point, I can say only what I said to her about her calculations on nursery school resources.

▪ And then the kindergarten teacher started throwing him back into the nursery school.

▪ I tried putting the boys in nursery school, but they screamed the place down.

▪ Thus the movement is striking at the early stages: nursery school, kindergarten, and the lower grades.

pupil

▪ Drug dealers elicited sympathy from secondary school pupils, who laughed at the suggestion of reporting them to the police.

▪ The segregation of school pupils who have disabilities or learning difficulties poses this question immediately.

▪ The differences were also evident in the age range of primary school pupils.

▪ In the white sector, 94 percent of primary school pupils were aged twelve or below.

▪ Estimates of total enrolment vary, but it seems unlikely that there were less than 100,000 Sunday school pupils by 1800.

▪ There have even been suggestions that the length of the working week for secondary school pupils may have to be increased.

▪ Cheltzie Hentz is taking legal action against two fellow primary school pupils after they swore at her on a bus.

▪ Grammar school pupils were drawn disproportionately from middle-class families.

state

▪ He is a former academic, whose five-year-old daughter attends state school and will apparently continue to do so.

▪ Justice says they should be allowed to attend the state school.

▪ The Department of Education and Science has estimated that state schools have a £3 billion backlog of repairs.

▪ The state school officials says all of those things are on the way.

▪ Chelsea already goes to a black majority state school in Arkansas, but for Amy the change was sudden.

▪ Her language may be a bit highbrow, but it strikes a chord with many of Britain's state school heads.

▪ Some state schools have followed the example of the independent schools in asking parents to give covenanted sums.

▪ Games were not even made compulsory in state schools until 1944 despite the importance of athleticism in private education.

student

▪ She did best in the interview, the part of the application process which was said to disadvantage comprehensive school students.

▪ But they expressed the greatest concerns about the time it takes for workers to supervise and mentor high school students.

▪ These findings were welcomed as reinforcing the need for top universities to do more to attract working-class and state-school students.

▪ High school students are remarkably perceptive and fresh in their views.

▪ Even when their grades are the same, public school students are still much more likely to win places at the 13.

▪ For Tulsa to provide school-to-work experiences for large numbers of high school students, something else was needed.

▪ They had not begun the program as high school students.

▪ In Tampa, Fla., he posed with elementary school students learning how to run businesses.

system

▪ But its collapse had served to focus attention upon many of the tensions within the school system.

▪ I doubt if the schools system could cope with another overhaul to undo all the harm done.

▪ But, in his place, the school system did not have the wisdom to send in anyone more qualified.

▪ Hold on to the remnants of a once great public school system.

▪ The New York City school system has a rule book the size of two collegiate dictionaries.

▪ Initially, the newly nationalized school system expanded very rapidly, with enrolments doubling in the course of a few years.

▪ S libraries and school systems have Internet access-the majority are yet to be connected.

teacher

▪ We are circulating the report to all primary schools so that primary school teachers can benefit from its advice.

▪ Jack Spencer was a high school teacher and a coach.

▪ In boxing, I was encouraged a lot by school teachers.

▪ He had the ironic, amused manner of a high school teacher, which he also was.

▪ So too have the subjects which the primary school teacher is expected to cover.

▪ South Florida owes him the respect one gives to a stern high school teacher.

▪ So, simply in its volume the assessment system itself represents a burden for primary school teachers.

▪ Perhaps he or she was a junior high school teacher who once commented that your writing skills were far below average.

village

▪ He was educated at the village school in Fridaythorpe.

▪ Opening their hearts to Jane, the brother finds her work in the village school and the sisters listen to her story.

▪ She attended only a teachers' institute, then taught in a village school.

▪ Or better still, there was the village school practically next door!

▪ Mr Gordon finds a Musician Mr Gordon was the teacher at the little village school.

▪ She met Sebastian from the tiny village school and told him what had happened.

▪ The village school, built in 1870, is now closed and used for the village hall.

year

▪ The purpose of the evening is to explain the nature of the tests which these children will undertake later this school year.

▪ The students participate in paid internships during the summer and part-time work during the school year.

▪ Our son's achievement level soared and at the end of the school year he received a glowing report from his teachers.

▪ That uncertainty arose after a $ 10 million budget shortfall surfaced in July, days before the start of the school year.

▪ The customary school year is 219 days.

▪ I can't believe that a school year could go so fast.

▪ This is the social event of the school year.

▪ The 1988 school year began with a sunrise breakfast and sing on the sandy shores of Lake Michigan.

■ VERB

attend

▪ In January, Bisceglie was contacted by Swanson, with whom he had attended law school.

▪ She also attended a kindergarten school where she first demonstrated her talent for modelling with clay.

▪ Students who attended schools that regularly received and posted notices of job openings earned about $ 950 more than the annual average.

▪ The 825 youngsters who attend the school are mainly children of immigrants of over 25 different nationalities.

▪ She attended school in Pencer, and Roseau.

▪ Mrs Short said she would prefer George to attend a mainstream school.

▪ In the education department, more than 10, 000 students attended nine school performances.

finish

▪ Ponyboy hopes he will finish school and go on to university, so that he can gain qualifications and lead a better life.

▪ Amelia became a student at one of the most exclusive finishing schools in the country, a school called Ogontz.

▪ Sheila and Mona were at the convent secondary school, Michael was finishing national school.

▪ They established a bakery that eventually employed several hundred village girls on a part-time basis while they finished school.

▪ She finished school last year, and she worked for six months in a hospital to get some money.

▪ Listen to the Evert family, who refused to let Chris play full-time on the pro circuit until she finished high school.

▪ The lessons took place during the evening and then only after I had finished my regular school work for the day.

▪ Alvin was to stay behind to finish the school year.

▪ Most slum children do not go to school, are very poor, and speak only Hindi.

▪ She chose to go to a different school, a true boarding school.

▪ I went to Tintagel primary school a few months later.

▪ Richards and I went to flight school together.

▪ One morning when they went to school the little bunnies were there in the cage and they were all very happy.

▪ This woman is never going to law school.

▪ Charlotte went to school again when she was fifteen.

▪ Today, close to half of all young people ages 25 to 34 still have not gone beyond high school.

leave

▪ Before you leave school to go on Work Experience you will be told which teacher to contact if you have any problems.

▪ Her sons left school when they were big enough to work.

▪ Mary was forty-six and had left school without any educational qualifications.

▪ The aim is to make students' aware of their own capabilities and options after leaving school.

▪ I left school at 16 without much in the way of qualifications.

▪ He was forced to leave school at 16 and go to work as a bank clerk.

▪ People who left school unable to read were often dismissed as lazy.

▪ What is done here with and for high school students will make a difference in who they are when they leave school.

stay

▪ He even wanted her to stay at school after she was sixteen, but she got round him there.

▪ My dad wanted me to stay in school.

▪ I have never once heard a staff member say that wouldn't stay after the school day for some activity or other.

▪ He seems to make few friends and is content to stay at home after school and play Nintendo until bedtime.

▪ Contact with employers has enabled many young people to see the value of staying on at school to improve their qualifications.

▪ Holly will retain his scholarship as long as he stays in school, according to Frieder.

▪ Accordingly, they had planned to stay until the new school term began.

▪ She went so far as to make special transportation arrangements for some students to stay after school to finish their assignments.

teach

▪ At this time, I grew disheartened with the work, and started teaching in secondary school.

▪ Parents are cleaning, shoveling, and even teaching to aid schools.

▪ On 29 July, while I was teaching at a secondary school near London, I got married to.

▪ And over the years, an array of conservative luminaries have spoken or taught at the school.

▪ The first issue focuses on how to teach prayer in both school and parish.

▪ Thoreau first tried to make a career of teaching school and then wrote essays, which almost no one bought.

▪ The ideal solution to the conundrum is to teach no religion in schools.

▪ They stood and talked, and Alvin asked when Truitte was coming to teach at the school he had opened nearby.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

cut class/school

▪ She started cutting classes and fighting with her teachers and parents.

▪ But Democratic legislators say the tax cut would cut school funding by more than $ 3 billion.

▪ The conference also approved resolutions to cut class sizes and protect teachers from undue stress.

fee-paying school

▪ But the punishment was still permitted in some fee-paying schools, provided that was not against the parents' principles.

▪ Over three quarters of the House of Lords attended fee-paying schools of one sort or another.

▪ Since last summer at least 256 teachers had lost their jobs after 10 fee-paying schools folded, said officials.

▪ Then there was the resentment over the fur coat she was deprived of because I was sent to a fee-paying school.

go to school/church/work etc

▪ And I was going to school.

▪ Dad, I want to go to school.

▪ Everyone says the space program is great, he goes to work on the space program.

▪ His Mum went to work this afternoon.

▪ I was too upset to go to school.

▪ Keith makes himself go to work.

▪ Phillips should have lost his eligibility for the year while continuing to just go to school.

▪ When he was told he must go to school, he said he would not.

infant school/teacher/class etc

▪ Ah, but here was a job: the infant teacher was called away for half an hour.

▪ An infant school built in 1840 served both Seaton and Sigglesthorne.

▪ At this time Syeduz was nearly six and in his second term in the infant school.

▪ Children attended infant school until they were seven.

▪ Read in studio An infant school has reopened after being severely damaged by arsonists.

▪ The limit for first-year infants classes will be 27 and for classes of children of mixed ages, 24.

▪ This infant school was sometimes part of a junior school which catered for seven to eleven year olds.

model prison/farm/school etc

▪ A model farm was built for the herd in 1850 but after 1870 the herd's size was never more than 100.

▪ Before applying the impact of support charges, his model farm produced a farm gross margin of £101,000 under farm income-optimising calculations.

▪ The Economic Societies encouraged local industries, set up model farms, and sponsored new crops.

▪ The jail is less than a year old and has been hailed as a model prison.

▪ There he built a model farm specialising in truffles - the regional speciality - potatoes and nuts.

▪ Wave of unrest hits model prison.

of/from the old school

▪ As a soldier of the old school, Eisenhower felt his responsibility was to protect the nation's security.

▪ Harris was a newspaperman of the old school.

▪ At such a time, with his formal dress, he looked like a diplomat of the old school.

▪ He was of the old school, complete with stiff collar and bowler hat, and he was a good all-rounder.

▪ He was one of the old school, not exactly sleeping under hedges, but an itinerant caddie.

▪ I had to have ideas about how to sell the packages even though my business was still of the old school.

▪ Oscar was from the old school.

▪ The overall effect was grandfatherly-a gentleman of the old school, fusty, faintly absentminded, and deeply courteous.

▪ They sweep aside the qualifications and reservations which monetarists of the old school would occasionally express.

▪ This one was of the old school: giddy and flirtatious.

put sb through school/college/university

▪ I'm grateful to my wife for putting me through law school.

▪ He put himself through school with wages earned as a carpenter.

▪ He put his kids through college.

▪ I put my children through college doing it.

▪ I felt guilty thinking of my father working so hard to put me through school.

▪ Instead, she moved to Boston, where she worked as a waitress and put herself through school.

▪ Some said Pops sent his Social Security checks to his daughter to put his grandchildren through college.

▪ The boys were to be sent by their father, but he was able to put just one through school.

▪ There were stories of people putting themselves through college by working during the day and studying at night.

residential course/school etc

▪ As a challenge the chief of the Poltava guberniia Department of Education offered him the directorship of this residential school for war-orphans.

▪ Casey is now in a residential school for children with emotional problems and / or learning disabilities.

▪ In fact I hear that several Outward Bound schools are offering fortnight-long residential courses on the safe removal of the fleecy top.

▪ The residential course will be a combination of talks, demonstrations and hands-on experience.

▪ The money raised will pay for two outdoor residential courses, organised for college students and Fairbridge.

▪ Therefore, the concerns raised do not apply necessarily or equally to all residential schools working with such children.

▪ They joined the six-day residential course after a careful selection process.

secondary education/schooling/teaching etc

▪ A father explained to me that he would put one of his three sons through primary and secondary education.

▪ All had to prepare a Development Plan describing five years' improvement to bring about secondary education for all.

▪ During secondary education, the use of the spoken word increases.

▪ Full mixed-ability teaching, especially if it reached into the middle and later years of secondary schooling, was comparatively rare.

▪ If you came from a poor family the only way you could get secondary education was by gaining a scholarship.

▪ In practice, given the monoglot tendency in secondary education it might be difficult to recruit students with the necessary competence.

▪ Remember that people were then leaving school at 12 or 14 and there was no secondary education available in the town.

▪ These differences increased during secondary education: children from lower-status occupational groups declined from their 11 plus position relative to higher groups.

single-sex school/college etc

sink estate/school

stay after (school)

▪ But Lucie stayed after all, to play Balaam, and Izzie to play her pipe beforehand.

▪ I stayed after hours doing murals on tailgates.

▪ I had a friend who worked for the oil people, and I decided to stay after a visit to this place.

▪ I have never once heard a staff member say that wouldn't stay after the school day for some activity or other.

▪ In May, when the time changes and the weather mellows, the team will stay after the games to picnic.

▪ Keegan is desperate to stay after savouring his first taste in management by keeping United in the Second Division.

▪ She went so far as to make special transportation arrangements for some students to stay after school to finish their assignments.

▪ Some stay after class and follow me devotedly around the campus.

storefront church/law office/school etc

▪ In Sanchersville, she opened a storefront law office perforating the heart of the ghetto.

the old school tie

the school/academic year

▪ A dud for most of the year, with peaks at the start of the school year and at Christmas.

▪ Alvin was to stay behind to finish the school year.

▪ In the academic year 1990/91, work by the staff of the Department led to two national awards.

▪ That uncertainty arose after a $ 10 million budget shortfall surfaced in July, days before the start of the school year.

▪ The Counselling Service offers a number of group workshops and skills acquisition classes during the academic year.

▪ The paper was discussed by branches and Federations during the academic year 1956-57 and at the District Council of July 1957.

▪ The Transit minibus will be used for outings and visits throughout the school year.

▪ To bring together these keys to the curriculum, the school year is organized around themes.

work your way through school/college/university etc

▪ He worked his way through college, performing menial tasks in exchange for reduced tuition.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

▪ All the kids around here take the bus to school.

▪ Both their kids are away at school now.

▪ Did you have a good day at school?

▪ He argued for the abolition of the public schools, which he says are elitist.

▪ He seems to be very much part of the Marxist school in his approach to politics.

▪ I've only been out of school a couple of years, but I've forgotten all the math I learned.

▪ I always liked school, but my sister hated it.

▪ Jake dropped out of school and started working at the bowling alley.

▪ Jessica's still too young to go to school.

▪ Kyle is one of the most popular boys in school.

▪ Many parents want to send their children to private school because class sizes are smaller.

▪ My mother is a teacher at the local school.

▪ One school of thought argues that introducing stiffer penalties would bring the crime rate down.

▪ Phil gave up his job, and he's going back to school next year.

▪ She must be about 16 - she's still at school.

▪ Teachers are complaining that the public schools do not receive adequate funding.

▪ The children were all wearing school uniforms.

▪ The nearest school was 10 miles away.

▪ The whole school was sorry when she left.

▪ There is no denying the influence of the Impressionist school in his painting.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

▪ In high school, he also learned to play the drums, piano and cornet.

▪ Mary was forty-six and had left school without any educational qualifications.

▪ Oh, they said how heroic he was and the headmaster said all the right things at the school memorial service.

▪ Primary schools, it argued, are failing to stretch older children.

▪ The goals include upgrading teachers' performance and boosting to 90 percent the number of students who graduate from high school.

▪ The high school signing period begins Feb. 7.

▪ The public schools get the least and the last-the least money, the least equipment, the least of everything.

▪ They're even thinking of closing schools down.

II.verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

church

▪ The Klan firebombed black homes, churches, and schools in over one hundred towns and rural areas.