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Education and Curriculum Terms: A Guide for Students and Teachers
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49 terms filed under C, showing 11–20 (page 2 of 5).
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Characterisation
How a writer builds a character — and it is always a construction.
Checking Out Me History
Agard's poem about a curriculum that taught him everything except himself. Identity, and who writes history.
Chemical analysis
Tests that identify what something is. Flame tests, gas tests and chromatography.
Child development milestones
The typical sequence of what children can do, and why the range matters more than the age.
Child in need
A child assessed as needing local authority services to achieve a reasonable standard of health or development.
Child protection plan
Also called CP plan, Section 47, Child protection conference
A plan where a child is judged at risk of significant harm. Serious, and the family is entitled to take part.
Children missing education
Also called CME
A child of compulsory school age not on any school roll and not otherwise educated. Councils must find them.
Choosing a school for a child with SEND
What to look at on a visit, and what the council must do with your preference.
Chords and keys
How notes group into harmony, and how a piece establishes its home note.
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