The Education (Schools and Further Education) (Amendment) Regulations 1990

2.  Regulation 10 of the Education (Schools and Further Education) Regulations 1981(1) is hereby amended as follows —

(a) paragraph (3) is revoked;

(b) for paragraph (5) there shall be substituted the following paragraph —

“(5) In a school which meets on six days a week there may on two of those days be only a single session and, in relation to a day on which there is only a single session, paragraph (4) shall have effect as if the period of three hours there mentioned were a period of one and a half hours.”;

(c) for paragraph (6A) there shall be substituted the following paragraph —

“(6A) Where, in the spring term in the 1990/91 academic year, a session is devoted wholly or mainly to the provision to teachers employed at that school of training related to the introduction of National Curriculum assessment arrangements for pupils at or near the end of the first key stage and to the reporting to parents of the results of assessments made under those arrangements, that session shall be regarded for the purposes of this regulation as a session on which the school has met:

Provided that this paragraph shall not have effect in relation to more than two sessions.”; and

(d) for paragraph (7) there shall be substituted the following paragraph —

“(7) In this regulation —

“academic year” means a period of 12 months beginning on 1st September unless the school has a term beginning in August in which case it means a period of 12 months beginning on 1st August;

“National Curriculum assessment arrangements” means assessment arrangements specified in or under the Education (National Curriculum) (Assessment Arrangements for English, Mathematics and Science) Order 1990(2); and

the reference to the first key stage is to the period set out in paragraph (a) of section 3(3) of the Education Reform Act 1988.”.

(1)

S.I. 1981/1086; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1983/262, 1987/879 and 1988/2154.

(2)

S.I. 1990/1543.