Jargon

WBJS – William Barcroft Junior School

SEN – Special Educational Needs

SENCO – Special Educational Needs Coordinator

IEP – Individual Education Plan

G & T – Gifted and Talented (More Able)

NNS – National Numeracy Strategy

Comprehension – Analysis, understanding of and application of readying skills.

Big Cat Scheme – New reading scheme for individual children to choose from a band. Children are assessed as to what band they should read from.

Phonics – Phonics is a reading method involving letter recognition: a method of teaching reading in which children learn to associate letters with the speech sounds they represent, rather than learning to recognize the whole word as a unit.

Reading Scheme – A progressive set of books in the same style.

Progress – How much a child has moved to acheive their goal.

Attainment – A level that the child has been awarded and acheived at a particular time.

DfE – Department of Education

PAN – Published Admision Number (Amount of children that can join the school)