Fiducia TogetherPlant transport and transpiration
How water and food move through a plant, in two separate systems.
Education A to Z
Education and Curriculum Terms: A Guide for Students and Teachers
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45 terms filed under P, showing 21–30 (page 3 of 5).
P
Play and learning
How children learn through play, and the recognised types of play.
Population and migration
How populations grow, age and move, and what follows.
Post-16 duty to participate
Also called Raising the participation age, RPA, Staying in education
Young people in England must stay in education or training until 18. It does not have to be school.
Practical skills: apparatus
Choosing and using the right equipment, and knowing its resolution.
Practitioners
Named theatre-makers whose methods you are expected to know and use.
Preparing for adulthood
Also called PfA, Transition to adulthood
The planning that must start at year 9 for young people with an EHCP. Four outcomes, and it is a legal requirement.
Presentations
Speaking to an audience as an assessed task. Structure and timing beat slides.
Pressure and forces in fluids
Force spread over an area, and why it changes with depth and height.
Primary and secondary sources
Evidence made at the time, and accounts made later from it.
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