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