Fiducia TogetherOccupational therapy in school
Also called OT, Paediatric OT, Sensory integration
Therapy for the practical business of doing things — handwriting, self-care, sensory regulation, access.
Education A to Z
Education and Curriculum Terms: A Guide for Students and Teachers
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10 terms filed under O.
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Off-rolling
Removing a pupil from the roll in the school's interests rather than the child's. Not lawful, and hard to prove.
Ofsted
The inspectorate for schools, nurseries and children's social care. It does not handle individual complaints about your child.
Online safety
Keeping children safe online, and what schools must do about it.
Operating system
The software that manages the hardware and everything running on it.
Ordnance Survey map skills
Grid references, contours, scale and direction. Guaranteed marks, and easily practised.
Organic chemistry
Carbon compounds: alkanes, alkenes, alcohols and polymers.
Osmosis, diffusion and active transport
Three ways substances move in and out of cells, and the differences examiners test.
Oversubscription criteria
Also called Admissions criteria, Catchment
The published order a school uses to decide places when there are more applicants than places.
Ozymandias
Shelley's 1818 sonnet about a ruined statue in a desert. Power, and how briefly it lasts.
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