The Education (National Curriculum) (Key Stage 2 Assessment Arrangements) (England) (Amendment) Order 2010

Amendment of the Education (National Curriculum) (Key Stage 2 Assessment Arrangements) (England) Order 2003

6.  After article 6 (monitoring of assessment arrangements) insert—

“Monitoring of assessment arrangements in relation to single level tests

6A.— (1) This article makes provision for monitoring the administration of single level tests to pupils in the final year of the second key stage (referred to as a “year 6 single level test”).

(2) The local education authority which maintains any school designated for the purposes of article 5A is the monitoring authority for the school, and in this article such a school is referred to as a relevant school.

(3) The monitoring authority must visit at least 5 relevant schools during any test cycle—

(a) for the purpose of monitoring whether the arrangements for administering year 6 single level tests adopted by the school comply with the provisions for such arrangements made under article 11; and

(b) in relation to any visit which takes place on the day on which a year 6 single level test is administered, for the purpose of monitoring whether a pupil’s written responses to a year 6 single level test represents the pupil’s own work.

(4) Any visit to a relevant school by the monitoring authority for the purposes of this article must take place at one of the following times—

(a) on the day before a single level test is administered;

(b) on the day on which a test is administered;

(c) on the day after a test is administered.

(5) The monitoring authority must make at least one of each of the kinds of visit referred to in paragraph (4)(a) to (c) during any test cycle.

(6) Paragraph (7) applies where, as a result of a visit carried out in accordance with this article, it appears to the monitoring authority that—

(a) any arrangements in connection with administering a year 6 single level test (“the test arrangements”) do not comply with any requirements imposed under article 11, or

(b) a pupil’s written responses to such a test does not represent the pupil’s own work.

(7) The monitoring authority must—

(a) bring the matter referred to in paragraph (6) to the attention of the head teacher; and

(b) report the matter to the Authority.

(8) The head teacher and the governing body of a school must—

(a) permit the monitoring authority to enter the premises of the school at all reasonable times in order to observe the implementation of the test arrangements;

(b) permit the monitoring authority to inspect and take copies of documents and other articles relating to the test arrangements;

(c) provide the monitoring authority with such information relating to test arrangements as they may reasonably request.

(9) In this article a reference to a test cycle is to a period identified in arrangements under article 11 as being a period during which single level tests are to be administered to pupils.”