Vocabulary for School

Assignment: a task or piece of work allocated to someone as part of a job or course of study.

Sentence: She’s gone to Italy on a special assignment.

Agenda: a list of matters to be discussed at a meeting:

Sentence: Has everyone received a copy of the agenda?

Antonymous: involves a word or phrase with a meaning that is the opposite of another word or phrase:

Sentence: In one section of the test students are required to match antonymous word pairs.

Backpack: a large bag used to carry things on your back, used especially by people who go camping or walking

Sentence: She tightened her grip on her backpack and turned around slowly.

Bulletin Board: a board on a wall on which notices can be put:

Sentence: Our teacher put our pictures up on the bulletin board.

Curriculum: the subjects studied in a school, college, etc. and what each subject includes:

Sentence: Teachers feel that the present curriculum is too narrow

Chalkboard: a blackboard

Sentence: She wrote the day’s menu up on a chalkboard

Colleagues: one of a group of people who work together:

Sentence: He has told me about the new colleague

Dormitory: a large room containing many beds, for example in a boarding school

Sentence: In the dormitories, children were assigned beds in no particular order; ages and conditions

Detention: a form of punishment in which children are made to stay at school for a short time after classes have ended:

Sentence: He has a detention after school

Enrichment: the action of improving or enhancing the quality or value of something.

Sentence: Education provides enrichment to the lives of individuals in a number of ways

Extracurricular Activities: programs outside of the regular school curriculum

Sentence: Each child had participated in extracurricular activities at school.