(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations make amendments to various regulations which are mainly consequential on the National Curriculum (Key Stage 3 Assessment Arrangements) (Wales) Order 2005. That Order specifies the assessment arrangements for pupils in the final year of the third key stage. It removes the requirement for tests to be administered to those pupils, so that their levels of attainment are determined by teacher assessments. These Regulations substitute references to these tests with references to teacher assessments and make other consequential amendments in the following Regulations — the Education (School Performance and Unauthorised Absence Targets) (Wales) Regulations 1999, the Education (School Information) (Wales) Regulations 1999, the Education (School Performance Information) (Wales) Regulations 2004 and the Education (Pupil Information) (Wales) Regulations 2004.
These Regulations also amend the Education (Pupil Information) (Wales) Regulations 2004 so as to specify in more detail the information on the results of teacher assessments at key stages 1, 2 and 3, which is required to be included in the annual head teacher’s report to parents and adult pupils.
These Regulations also amend the National Curriculum (Key Stage 2 Assessment Arrangements) (Consequential Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2004 so as to omit a paragraph which mistakenly purported to amend a provision that had already been revoked by the Education (School Information) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2004.