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 61–70 (page 7 of 8).

S

Stagecraft

How a play works in performance rather than on the page.

Staging and design

Where the audience is, and everything they see and hear.

Stakeholders

Everyone affected by a business, and why their interests conflict.

Standard and non-standard English

The prestige variety, and everything else. A difference, not a deficit.

Standard form

A way of writing very large or very small numbers as a number between 1 and 10 times a power of ten.

Standard practicals: osmosis

The potato chip experiment, and why percentage change is used.

Standard practicals: rates

Measuring how fast a reaction goes, two standard ways.

Starting school

The first term of Reception, and what to expect.

Static electricity

Charge that stays put, and why it makes things attract or spark.

Statistics

Averages, spread and the charts. Which average to use is a question that is actually asked.

Ready when you are

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