The Education (Individual Pupils' Achievements) (Information) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2001

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2001 No. 890 (W. 41)

EDUCATION, WALES

The Education (Individual Pupils' Achievements) (Information) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2001

Made

8th March 2001

Coming into force

1st April 2001

The National Assembly for Wales, there being no persons with whom it appeared to it that consultation would be desirable, makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 408 and 569(4) and (5) of the Education Act 1996(1) and now vested in the National Assembly for Wale(2)).

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations are called the Education (Individual Pupils' Achievements) (Information) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2001 and come into force on 1st April 2001.

Amendment of Regulations

2.—(1) The Education (Individual Pupils' Achievements) (Information) (Wales) Regulations 1997(3) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 3(10), omit sub-paragraph (c).

(3) In regulation 6(2), omit “(other than art, music and physical education)” in sub-paragraph (a) and the whole of sub-paragraph (b).

(4) In paragraph 3 of Schedule 1, omit “(other than art, music and physical education)” in sub-paragraph (1) and the whole of sub-paragraph (2).

(5) In paragraph 3 of Schedule 2, omit “(other than art, music and physical education)” in sub-paragraph (2).

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

8th March 2001

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Education (Individual Pupils' Achievements) (Information) (Wales) Regulations 1997 in the light of changes to the National Curriculum which came into effect in August 2000. Before those changes, there was no provision for measuring, by means of a formal scale, pupils' levels of attainment in art, music and physical education at key stage 3. Instead, for the purpose of measuring pupils' achievements at key stage 3, the National Curriculum contained what were termed “End of key stage descriptions” for each attainment target. Under the new National Curriculum provision is now made for measuring pupils levels of attainment in those subjects by means of a scale. The amendments which these Regulations make to the 1997 Regulations simply reflect those changes.

(1)

1996 c. 56. Section 408 is amended by paragraph 30(a) of Schedule 7 to the Education Act 1997 (c. 44) and by paragraph 106 of Schedule 30 to the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (c. 31); and is prospectively amended by paragraph 57 of Schedule 9 to the Learning and Skills Act 2000 (c. 21) from a date to be appointed. For the meaning of “regulations” and “prescribed” see section 579(1) of the Education Act 1996.

(2)

See the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672).

(3)

S.I. 1997/573, as amended by S.I. 1997/2709, S.I. 1998/2705 and S.I. 1999/1497.

(4)

1998 c. 38