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ˈinfant-ˈschool
A school for infants, a school organized for the instruction and training of young children (usually under seven years of age). Also infant (or infants') school.
The usual form is now infant school.
1824S. Wilderspin Importance Educating Infant Poor 33 Rules to be observed by the Parents of Children admitted into the Spitalfields Infant School. Ibid. 50 An infant school may be regarded..as a combination of the school and nursery. 1833H. Martineau Loom & Lugger ii. ii. 42 He often thought of taking him to the infant school. 1839[see Coleridgian a. and n.]. 1841Penny Cycl. XLI. 38/2 The real founder of Infant-Schools appears to have been the Pastor Oberlin. Ibid., Mr. Owen was the first Englishman to establish an infant-school on a large scale..at New Lanark in Scotland..in the year 1818. 1921Mencken Amer. Lang. (rev. ed.) 120 An English boy whose father is unable to pay for his education goes first into a babies' class..in a primary or infants' school. 1945Guide Educ. Syst. Eng. & Wales (Min. Educ.) 59 Infants School (Infants Department), primary school for children of about 5 to 7 years, including in some cases classes for children of 3 and 4. 1969I. & P. Opie Children's Games xii. 331 Even beyond Infant School the girls sometimes play ‘Mothers and Fathers’. |