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Education and Curriculum Terms: A Guide for Students and Teachers
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15 terms filed under H, showing 1–10 (page 1 of 2).
H
Health and disease
Communicable and non-communicable disease, risk factors and lifestyle.
High needs funding
Also called Element 3, Top-up funding, High needs block
Money councils hold for pupils whose needs cost more than a school's own budget covers.
Historical context
The surrounding circumstances that make an event make sense.
Historical interpretations: why they change
Why historians disagree, and why accounts of the same past keep changing.
Historical sources: cartoons and photographs
Reading images as evidence. Different skills from reading text.
Home to school transport
Also called School transport, Free school transport
Free travel to school for children who qualify. A statutory duty, and a frequent source of complaint.
Home tuition
Teaching arranged at home for a child who cannot attend school for health reasons.
Homeostasis
Keeping internal conditions steady. Temperature, blood glucose and water balance.
Homework
Work set to be done outside lessons. Not compulsory in law, and schools may sanction for it.
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