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Maintained schools - Maintained schools are funded by the government via the local authority, and do not charge fees to students. The categories of maintained school are: community, foundation (including trust), voluntary aided and voluntary controlled.
Mentors - Learning Mentors are employed by schools to support students encountering social or organisational difficulties which are hindering their studies.
MFL - MFL, Modern Foreign Languages, is the study of foreign languages at secondary
school.
Midday assistants - Midday assistants are non teaching staff employed to supervise students during their breaks and lunchtimes.
Middle schools - Middle schools take students from Years 5 to 8*,age 9 to 13. Some boroughs or counties have a system where all students go from a primary or first*
school, to a middle school to a high school at the age of 13. A few boroughs or counties have a junior and secondary school system in the main, with a
few middle schools.
Mixed ability - Mixed ability is a system of organising students into teaching groups, with a range of academic abilities
in one classroom.
Modern Foreign Languages - MFL, Modern Foreign Languages, is the study of foreign languages at secondary school.
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