Blackheath Primary School Jargon Buster
| Jargon | Explanation |
| DBS | Disclosure & Barring Service – DBS refers to the new agency created out of a merger between the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) and The Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA), its full title is The Disclosure and Barring Service. The checks and information provided will remain the same but will be branded DBS Checks. |
| DfE | Department for Education |
| Differentiation | A wide variety of teaching techniques and lesson adaptations that teachers use to pupils of differing abilities in the same class. |
| EAL | English as an additional language |
| EBD | Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties |
| EHC Plan | Educational Health Care Plan – An education, health and care plan is a document that says what support a child or young person who has special educational needs should have. “ |
| EMTAS | Ethnic Minority & Traveller Achievement Service
|
| ESOL | English for Speakers of Other Languages or English as a Second or Other Language – If English is not your main language you can take part in a course to help you improve your English. These courses are called ESOL. |
| EWO | Education Welfare Officer |
| EYFS | Early Years Foundation Stage. A framework of care and Education for children from 4 to 5 years of age. This stage typically means Nursery and Reception Classes. |
| CSS | Children’s Support Service, this is the new name for Pupil Referral Unit (PRU) |
| FFT | Fischer Family Trust |
| FSM | Free School Meals |
| FTE | Full Time Equivalent |
| G & T | Gifted and Talented – Gifted are those with high ability in one or more academic subject and the talented are those with high ability in sport, music, visual or performing arts. |
| HLTA | Higher Level Teaching Assistant |
| HMI | Her Majesty’s Inspector of Schools |
| ICT | Information and Communication Technology |
| IEP | Individual Education Plan for SEN pupils |
| Inclusion | Removing barriers in learning so all pupils can participate at their own level. |
| ISA | Independent Safeguarding Authority |
| ITT | Initial Teacher Training |
| IWB | Interactive Whiteboard |
| Key Stage one | age 5-7 (Years 1 and 2); |
| Key Stage two | age 7-11(Years 3,4, 5 and 6) |
| LA | Local Authority |
| LAA | Local Area Agreement |
| LAC | Looked After Children |
| LLE | Local Leader of Education |
| LSA | Learning Support Assistant |
| MLD | Moderate Learning Difficulties |
| More able | Higher performing pupils than the majority of the class |
| NAHT | National Association of Head Teachers |
| NASUWT | National Association of Schoolmasters/Union of Women Teachers |
| NC | National Curriculum |
| NEET | Not in Education, Employment or Training |
| NGA | National Governors’ Association |
| NLE | National Leader of Education |
| NOR | Number on Roll |
| NPQH | National Professional Qualification for Headship |
| NQT | Newly Qualified Teacher |
| NtG | Narrowing the Gap |
| NUT | National Union of Teachers |
| Ofsted | Office for Standards in Education |
| PE | Physical Education |
| Performance Table | Published by the DfE to compare schools’ results. |
| Phonics | Phonics refers to a method for teaching speakers of English to read and write their language. It involves connecting the sounds of spoken English with letters or groups of letters (e.g that the sound /k/ can be represented by c, k, ck or ch spellings) and teaching them to blend the sounds of letters together to produce approximate pronunciations of unknown words. In this way, phonics enables people to use individual sounds to construct words. For example, when taught the sounds for the letters t, p, a and s, one can build up the words “tap”, “pat”, “pats”, “taps” and “sat.” |
| PPA | Planning, Preparation and Assessment time to which teachers are entitled. Progression – pupils develop academically and personally from year to year and from one key stage to the next in a way which builds on what has already been achieved.” |
| PSHE | Personal Social Health and Economic education |
| PFA | Parent Friend Association |
| QTS | Qualified Teacher Status |
| RAISE | Reporting and Analysis for Improvement through School Self-Evaluation |
| RE | Religious Education |
| SACREs | Standing Advisory Council for Religious Education |
| SATs | Standard Attainment Tests/Tasks – National Curriculum Tests and Tasks which take place at the end of Key Stage 1 and at the end of Key Stage 2.
|
| SCR | Single Central Record – Schools must hold a single central record of all adults working with pupils. The records hold security and ID checks along with other specific information.
|
| SEAL | Social & Emotional Aspects of Learning
|
| SEN | Special Educational Needs |
| SENCO | Special Educational Needs Coordinator |
| Setting | Putting pupils of similar ability together just for certain lessons. So, for example, it would be possible to be in a top set for Literacy and a lower set for mathematics. |
| SIP | School Improvement Plan |
| SLT | Senior Leadership Team |
| SMSC | Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural (development)
|
| SPAG | Spelling, Punctuation and Grammer |
| Streaming | Splitting pupils into several different hierarchical groups which would stay together for all lessons. |
| TA | Teaching Assistant |
| Transition | The movement of pupils from Key Stage to Key Stage or school to school and the procedures associated with it.” |
| VCOP | vocabulary, connectives, openers and punctuation pupils are expected to use in their writing. |