The word 'schoolgirls' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a group of female students who attend school together. It is typically used when describing a specific age range, such as pre-adolescent or adolescent girls. Example: The schoolgirls giggled and chatted as they walked to class, their colorful backpacks bouncing on their shoulders.
The one-off documentary is shot in Leech's distinctive hand-held camera style and features the first emotional encounter between the Mosque's charismatic young communications manager and a distraught sister of one of the three Bethnal Green schoolgirls who flew out to join Isis jihadists in Syria.
Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 12.03pm BST12 03 Mel Stride, a Conservative, asks about the 270 Nigerian schoolgirls held captive.
The stranger offering scholarships was a woman named Godiya, a slim, quietly-spoken 27-year-old whose sister had been among the kidnapped schoolgirls.
But as the truck full of frightened schoolgirls sped deeper into Boko Haram territory, two sisters clasped hands and jumped off together into the night.
The area senator Ahmed Zanna, who put the death toll at 300, said the town had been left unguarded because soldiers based there had been redeployed north towards Lake Chad in an effort to rescue the schoolgirls.
Jonathan's relations with party members at times resembled a football coach antagonising his star players When Boko Haram kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls from the town of Chibok in northern Nigeria, Jonathan failed to realise how much this would capture the public's attention, both locally and internationally.
His military background was seen as an asset in the fight against Boko Haram, which has killed at least 10,000 people since 2009 and kidnapped 276 schoolgirls from Chibok last year.
The recent upsurge in violence has led to anger at the government's lacklustre response to the threat, prompting it to seek assistance from the US, UK and Israel, who are expected to help find the abducted schoolgirls and provide counter-terrorism training programmes.
Late on Tuesday, Boko Haram gunmen also stormed through two settlements near Chibok, the village where the schoolgirls were kidnapped last month.
In one of the empty spaces, under a forbidding mural of the Great Leader Kim Il-sung, were assembled about 3,000 schoolgirls, performing a mass synchronized dance with the encouragement of two men sitting in a van with loudspeakers on the roof.
"More than two hundred schoolgirls!" Eight months on, she still sounds incredulous as she recalls the moment she heard Boko Haram had kidnapped more than 300 students in north-eastern Nigeria.
