Glossary of some common terms, abbreviations and acronyms

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Below are some common terms, abbreviations and acronyms. Using these without explanation should be avoided but if you come across one and are not sure what it means then it should be in the list below. If you want to add or correct anything in this glossary then please get in touch with Family Information Service.

A

ACE Adults, Children and Education (LA)
AD Assistant Director
ADD Attention Deficit Disorder
ADHD Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
AfL Assessment for Learning
AGT Able, Gifted & Talented
ALS Additional Literacy Support
APP Assessing Pupils’ Progress
APS Average Points Score
ASC Autistic Spectrum Condition
ASCL Association of School and College Leaders (formerly Secondary Heads Association)
AST Advanced Skills Teacher
ATL Association of Teachers and Lecturers
AWPU Age Weighted Pupil Unit

B

BESD Behavioural, Emotional and Social Difficulties
BME Black and Minority Ethnic
BSF Building Schools for the Future
BSS Behaviour Support Service

C

CAF Common Assessment Framework
CAMHS Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service
CFR Consistent Financial Reporting – formatted financial returns
CoG Chair of Governors
CPD Continuing Professional Development
CPR Child Protection Register
CRB Criminal Records Bureau
CSG Curriculum Support Group
CTU Children’s Trust Unit
CVA Contextual Value Added
CWDC Children’s Workforce Development Council (National Body)
CYC City of York Council
CYPP Children and Young People’s Plan
CYSCB City of York Safeguarding Children Board
CVS Council for Voluntary Service

D

DCSF Department of Children, Schools and Families (Government Agency pre-May 2010)
DDA Disability Discrimination Act
DED Disability Equality Duty
DfE Department for Education (Government Agency post May 2010)
DFS Dyslexia Friendly School
DHT Deputy Headteacher
DMT Director’s Management Team

E

EAL English as an Additional Language
ECM Every Child Matters
EDS Education Development Service
EMAP Executive Membership Advisory Panel
EOTAS Education Other Than At School
EP Educational Psychologist
ESOL English for Speakers of Other Languages
ESW Educational Social Worker
EWO Education Welfare Officer
EYFS Early Years Foundation Stage

F

FE Further Education
FFT Fischer Family Trust
FLA Foreign Language Assistant
FMSiS Financial Management Standards in Schools
FSM Free School Meals
FTE Full Time Equivalent – part-time staff measured according to how many full-time staff would be required to work the same number of hours
FIP Family Intervention Project

G

GB Governing Body
GCSE General Certificate of Secondary Education
GMB ‘Britain’s General Union’ – a campaigning union representing many support staff
GNVQ General National Vocational Qualification
GSS Governor Support Service
GTC General Teaching Council

H

HE Higher Education
HI Hearing Impairment
HLTA Higher Level Teaching Assistant
HMCI Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Schools
HMI Her Majesty’s Inspector
HR Human Resources
HTSS Headteacher Support Service

I

IBP Individual Behaviour Plan
ICT Information and Communications Technology
IDP Inclusion Development Programme
IDS Inclusion Development Service
IDT Inclusion Development Team
IEP Individual Education Plan
IiP Investors in People
INSET In-Service Training
IQ Intelligence Quotient
ISB Individual Schools Budget
ISP Improving Schools Programme (formerly Intensifying Support Programme)
ISR Individual School Range – categorisation of a school according to size and type used in calculating the salary level of a headteacher
ITT Initial Teacher Training
IWB Interactive Whiteboard
IYSS Integrated Youth Support Services

J

JCG Joint Consultative Group
JSLA Junior Sports Leaders Award

K

KS Key Stage

L

LA Local Authority
LAA Local Area Agreement
LAC Looked After Children
LCCS Learning, Culture and Children’s Services
LDD Learning Difficulties or Disabilities
LPSH Leadership Programme for Serving Headteachers (run by NCSL)
LSP Local Social Partnership (CYC’s local WAMG)
L&T Learning and Teaching
LEP Local Enterprise Partnership
LP Lead Practitioner

M

M&E Monitoring and Evaluation
MFL Modern Foreign Languages
MIS Management Information Service (or Systems)
MLD Moderate Learning Difficulties
MSA Midday Supervisory Assistant

N

NAHT National Association of Head Teachers
NASUWT National Association of Schoolmasters/Union of Women Teachers
NC National Curriculum
NCSL National College for School Leadership
NEEC 2010 Formerly the North of England Education Conference, this will be held in York 6-8 January 2010
NEET Not in Education, Employment or Training
NGA National Governors’ Association
NoV Note of Visit (from an Adviser, SIP or Consultant)
NPQH National Professional Qualification for Headship
NUT National Union of Teachers
NQT Newly Qualified Teacher

O

Ofsted Office for Standards in Education
OOSC Out of School Clubs

P

PAT Pupil Achievement Tracker
PD Physical Difficulties
PDM Professional Development Meeting
PE Physical Education
PFI Private Finance Initiative
PGCE Postgraduate Certificate in Education
PHF Primary Heads’ Forum
PIPS Performance Indicators for Primary Schools
PIVATS Performance Indicators for Value Added Target Setting
PLASC Pupil Level Annual School Census (now known as the School Census and collected three times per year)
PMLD Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties
PPA Planning, Preparation and Assessment
PRU Pupil Referral Unit
P Scales A set of descriptions for recording pre-NC Level 1 achievement
PSHCE Personal. Social, Health and Citizenship Education
PTA Parent-Teacher Association
PTR Pupil-Teacher Ratio
PVI Private, voluntary and independent

Q

QCA Qualifications and Curriculum Authority
QTS Qualified Teacher Status

R

RAHT Recently Appointed Headteachers
RAISE online/ ROL Raising Achievement in School Education – online data analysis published by Ofsted
RAP Raising Attainment Plan
RoA Record of Achievement
RE Religious Education

S

SACRE Standing Advisory Council for Religious Education
SALT Speech and Language Therapy
SBM School Business Manager
School Governors One-Stop Shop Organisation that recruits people interested in becoming a governor and then passes on their details to schools
SDP (or SIP) School Development Plan (also known as School Improvement Plan)
SEAL Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning
SEF Self Evaluation Form (Ofsted)
SEN Special Educational Needs
SENAP Special Educational Needs Assessment Panel
SENCO Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator
SENDA Special Educational Needs and Disability Act
SENMAN Special Educational Needs Manager
SIP School Improvement Partner or School Improvement Plan
SISD School Improvement and Staff Development
SISS School Improvement Support Service
SLA Service Level Agreement
SLCN Speech, Language and Communication Needs
SLD Severe Learning Difficulties
SLDD Students with Learning Difficulties and/or Disabilities
SLT Senior Leadership Team
SMT Senior Management Team
SpLD Specific Learning Difficulties
SRF Self-Review Framework (CYC self-assessment tool for school improvement)
SSF School Standards Fund
STA Standard Teaching Assessment

T

TA Teaching Assistant or Teacher Assessment
TACF Team around the Child and Family
TDA Training and Development Agency (National Body)
TDU Training and Development Unit (LA)
TEMSS Traveller and Ethnic Minority Support Service
TES Times Education Supplement
TLR Teaching & Learning Responsibility
TaMHS Targeted Mental Health in Schools

U

Unison Public sector union with many local government members
UPS Upper Pay Spine

V

VA Voluntary Aided
VAK Visual, Auditory, Kinaesthetic learning preferences
VC Voluntary Controlled
VI Visual Impairment
VCS Voluntary and community sector

W

WAMG Workforce Agreement Monitoring Group

Y

YATs York Assessment Tables
YOM York Outcome Matrix
YorkYOT CYC’s Youth Offending Team (a partnership service)
YPS Young People’s Services