The National Curriculum (Amendments to the Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3 Assessment Arrangements) (Wales) Order 2011

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2011 No. 1937 (W.206)

EDUCATION, WALES

The National Curriculum (Amendments to the Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3 Assessment Arrangements) (Wales) Order 2011

Made

29 July 2011

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales

3 August 2011

Coming into force

1 September 2011

The Welsh Ministers in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by sections 108(3)(c), (7), (8), (9), (10) and (11) and 210(7) of the Education Act 2002(1) make the following Order:

Title, commencement and application

1.—(1) The title of this Order is the National Curriculum (Amendments to the Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3 Assessment Arrangements) (Wales) Order 2011 and it comes into force on 1 September 2011.

(2) This Order applies to maintained schools in Wales.

National Curriculum (Key Stage 2 Assessment Arrangements) (Wales) Order 2004

2.  The National Curriculum (Key Stage 2 Assessment Arrangements) (Wales) Order 2004(2) is amended as follows—

(a) in article 3(1), after the definition of “summer term” insert—

““working day” (“diwrnod gwaith”) means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or a day which is a bank holiday within the meaning of section 1 of the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971(3).”; and

(b) in article 4(3) for “two weeks” substitute “twenty working days”.

National Curriculum (Key Stage 3 Assessment Arrangements) (Wales) Order 2005

3.  The National Curriculum (Key Stage 3 Assessment Arrangements) (Wales) Order 2005(4) is amended as follows—

(a) in article 3(1), after the definition of “summer term” insert—

““working day” (“diwrnod gwaith”) means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or a day which is a bank holiday within the meaning of section 1 of the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971.”; and

(b) in article 4(2) for “two weeks” substitute “twenty working days”.

Leighton Andrews

Minister for Education and Skills, one of the Welsh Ministers

29 July 2011

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

The National Curriculum (Key Stage 2 Assessment Arrangements) (Wales) Order 2004 (“the 2004 Order”) specifies the assessment arrangements for the second key stage and the National Curriculum (Key Stage 3 Assessment Arrangements) (Wales) Order 2005 (“the 2005 Order”) specifies the assessment arrangements for the third key stage.

The 2004 Order and the 2005 Order place a duty on teachers to assess pupils in schools in Wales no later than two weeks before the end of the summer term. This Order amends that provision of the 2004 Order and the 2005 Order so that pupils must be assessed no later than twenty working days before the end of the summer term.

(1)

2002 c. 32.

(2)

S.I. 2004/2915 (W.254) as amended by S.I. 2005/3239 (W.244).

(3)

1971. c.80.

(4)

S.I. 2005/1394 (W.108) as amended by S.I. 2005/3239 (W.244) and S.I. 2008/1899 (W.181).