Information about children, education and schools. The storage and management of information including the School Census and other data collections in the education, skills and children's services sector.
Information and communication technology: The computing and communications facilities and features that variously support teaching, learning and a range of activities in education.
Also see Foundation subjects
Individual Education Plan. Builds on the curriculum that a child with learning difficulties or disabilities is following. It is designed to set out the strategies being used to meet each child's identified needs.
The successful education of all students (whether with or without disabilities, disadvantages, etc.) together in the same schools and classrooms, while celebrating the resulting diversity.
Also see SEN
Parents may wish to appeal against decisions in such areas as admissions and exclusions. The local authority is responsible for constituting an appeals panel, but the panel itself is independent in law.
A school that caters for pupils aged 5 to 7.
Action to improve the progress of pupils who are at risk of not fulfilling their potential, whether they are struggling to keep up or are more able pupils who are not achieving what they are capable of.