The Education (School Day and School Year) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2002

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2002 No. 107 (W.12)

EDUCATION, WALES

The Education (School Day and School Year) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2002

Made

22nd January 2002

Coming into force

18th February 2002

In exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by sections 551 and 569(4) and (5) of the Education Act 1996(1) and now vested in the National Assembly for Wales(2) the National Assembly for Wales makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and application

1.—(1) These Regulations are called the Education (School Day and School Year) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2002 and shall come into force on 18th February 2002.

(2) These Regulations apply only to Wales.

Amendment of the Education (School Day and School Year) (Wales) Regulations 2000

2.—(1) The Education (School Day and School Year) (Wales) Regulations 2000(3) are amended in accordance with the following provisions of these Regulations.

3.  At the end of regulation 3 there is added the following paragraph—

“(6) In relation to the 2001—2002 school year, the reference in paragraph (2) to 380 sessions is to be taken as a reference to 378 sessions.”.

4.  There is added after regulation 4, the following regulation—

“5.— (1) Where a school session in the 2002—2003 school year is devoted wholly or mainly to the provision to teachers employed at that school of training to which this paragraph applies, that session shall be regarded for the purposes of regulation 3 as a session on which that school has met.

(2) Paragraph (1) shall not have effect in relation to more than two school sessions.

(3) Paragraph (1) applies to training relating to the teaching of pupils at the school who are in the second key stage or the third key stage.”.

Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998(4).

D. Elis-Thomas

The Presiding Officer of the National Assembly

22nd January 2002

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Education (School Day and School Year) (Wales) Regulations 2000 (“the 2000 Regulations”). The 2000 Regulations make provisions about the length of the school day and the school year and further make provision for the number of school sessions that may be devoted to the training of teachers in school teachers' appraisal, the school teachers' pay system and school staffing structures.

Regulation 3 of the 2000 Regulations is amended so as to reduce the length of the 2001—2002 school year by one day, from 380 sessions to 378 sessions, for schools maintained by a local education authority and special schools not so maintained. That regulation will allow those schools to take an extra day’s holiday during the 2001—2002 school year in relation to the Queen’s golden jubilee bank holiday which falls during the half-term holiday week on Monday 3 June 2002.

A new regulation 5 is added to the 2000 Regulations which increases the maximum number of sessions which may be devoted wholly or mainly to training by two sessions in the 2002—2003 school year for training relating to the teaching of pupils in the second and third key stages.

(1)

1996 c. 56; section 551(1A) was inserted by paragraph 39 of Schedule 7 to the Education Act 1997 (c. 44), section 551(2) was amended by paragraph 166 of Schedule 30 to the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (c. 31). Section 579(1) of the Education Act 1996 defines “regulations” as meaning regulations made by the Secretary of State.

(2)

The functions of the Secretary of State under this section were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672).

(3)

S.I. 2000/1323 (W.101).

(4)

1998 c. 38.