Algorithm
A set of steps for solving a problem. Not a program — a program is one way of writing an algorithm down.
Education A to Z
Education and Curriculum Terms: A Guide for Students and Teachers
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Allegory and fable
A story where the surface stands for something else, all the way through.
Alliteration, assonance and sibilance
Repeated sounds, and the three you are most likely to be asked about.
Alternative provision
Also called AP, PRU, Pupil referral unit
Education arranged away from a mainstream school — for excluded pupils, or those who cannot attend one.
Alternative provision quality
How to judge whether a placement away from school is good enough.
An Inspector Calls
Priestley's 1945 play, set in 1912, in which a family is questioned about a young woman's death. Socialism in a drawing room.
Animal Farm
Orwell's 1945 allegory of the Russian Revolution, told as a story about farm animals.
Annotation
Writing on your own work about what you did, why, and what next.
Annual review
The yearly check that an EHCP is still right. The one predictable chance to change a plan without a fight.
Answering in the right amount
Writing enough and not too much. The mark allocation is the instruction.
Ready when you are
Have a look round the demo, start a free trial with your own service in it, or ask us the awkward question first. Whichever you pick, the people who answer are the people who built it.
Start a free 14-day trial
Your own organisation, every area switched on, no card and nothing to install. Add your team, your people and your records. If it is not for you, it just stops.
Open the live demo
The real suite with a fictional service already inside it. A throwaway login, no form, and everything you touch is wiped when you leave.
Ask us something
Tell us who you support and what is going wrong at the moment. We will say honestly whether we solve it, and if we do not, who does.