Education A to Z

Education and Curriculum Terms: A Guide for Students and Teachers

Please note: This page explains a word or a process in education. It is general information about the system, the law and the guidance in England — not advice about your child, your school or your exam. If a decision is going against you, get advice from one of the free services we link to before you agree to anything or miss a deadline. If you are revising, check your own exam board's specification: boards word things differently and yours is the one that marks you.

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80 terms filed under S, showing 11–20 (page 2 of 8).

S

School trips

Educational visits, what they can charge for, and the duty to include disabled pupils.

School uniform help

Also called Uniform grant, Uniform costs

Schools must keep uniform affordable. Councils may — but need not — offer grants.

School's duty to promote wellbeing

Schools must promote pupils' wellbeing, and what that means in practice.

Scientific vocabulary

Using the right word. In science the word IS the mark.

Searching and sorting

Standard algorithms for finding an item and putting a list in order.

Section 19

Also called Section 19 Education Act 1996, Suitable education duty

The council's duty to arrange education for a child who cannot attend school through illness, exclusion or otherwise.

Section F

Also called Special educational provision, Part F

The part of an EHCP the council must actually deliver. Vague wording here is the single most common weakness in a plan.

Selection and iteration

IF statements and loops. The two structures that make a program do more than run top to bottom.

Semantic field and lexical choice

The vocabulary a writer draws on, and what its consistency does.

SEN information report

What a school must publish about how it supports children with SEND. Useful, and rarely read by parents.

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