The Education (National Curriculum) (Key Stage 1 Assessment Arrangements) (England) (Amendment) Order 2000

Statutory Instruments

2000 No. 1242

EDUCATION, ENGLAND

The Education (National Curriculum) (Key Stage 1 Assessment Arrangements) (England) (Amendment) Order 2000

Made

28th April 2000

Coming into force

28th April 2000

In exercise of powers conferred on the Secretary of State by sections 356(2)(c) and (5) and 568(5) of the Education Act 1996(1), the Secretary of State for Education and Employment hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Education (National Curriculum) (Key Stage 1 Assessment Arrangements) (England) (Amendment) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 28th April 2000.

Amendment of Order

2.—(1) The Education (National Curriculum) (Key Stage 1 Assessment Arrangements) (England) Order 1999(2) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In article 5 there shall be inserted at the end the following paragraph—

“(8) As soon as reasonably practicable after standard test and task assessments have been administered to pupils pursuant to sub-paragraph (1), the head teacher shall provide the local education authority with a signed statement, confirming that those standard test and task assessments were administered in accordance with the provisions of the document in which they were published.”(3).

Margaret Hodge

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department for Education and Employment

28th April 2000

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Education (National Curriculum) (Key Stage 1 Assessment Arrangements) (England) Order 1999. That Order specifies the assessment arrangements for the core subjects in the final year of the first key stage. The only change made to those regulations is the introduction of a statutory duty on the part of the head teacher to provide a signed statement to the local education authority confirming that the assessment arrangement test and tasks were administered in accordance with the provisions of the document in which they were published.

(1)

1996 c. 56.

(2)

S.I. 1999/1236, to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order.

(3)

As at the date this Order is made, the document is entitled “Key Stage 1 1999 Assessment and Reporting Arrangements” (reference number QCA/98/262) and is published by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, which body was established under section 21 of the Education Act 1997 (c. 44). The document can be obtained through QCA Publications, PO Box 99, Sudbury, Suffolk CO10 2SN.