Glossário

Performance and Assessment Reports
Produced by the Office For Standards in Education (Ofsted) and issued annually to schools. The contents of each PANDA report are confidential between Ofsted, the school, and the local authority, although schools are free to disseminate the information as they see fit.

Professional Association of Teachers.

The Department for Education and Skills publishes comparative secondary and 16 to 18 performance tables each year. The tables report achievements in public examinations and vocational qualifications in secondary schools and Further Education sector colleges. Primary school performance tables are published by local authorities and report the achievements of pupils at the end of Key Stage 2.

PEPs are schemes developed for young individuals in public care, designed to support their education.

Postgraduate Certificate of Education postgraduate-level Initial Teacher Training qualification.

Parents Information Network.

The time at the end of a lesson in which the teacher finds out what children have learnt and re-emphasises the main points of the lesson.

Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties.

Potential Schools Budget.

Parent Teacher Association.