The Education (School Organisation Proposals) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2004

Regulation 8

SCHEDULE

Regulation 3A

SCHEDULE 2AALTERATIONS TO NURSERY SCHOOLS FOR WHICH PROPOSALS MUST BE PUBLISHED

1.(1) An enlargement, other than a temporary enlargement, of the teaching space by 50% or more.

(2) The making permanent of a temporary enlargement of the teaching space by 50% or more.

(3) In this paragraph, “teaching space” means any area used wholly or mainly for the provision of nursery education excluding —

(a)any area used wholly or mainly for the education of pupils subject to assessment and pupils with statements of special educational need;

(b)any area so constructed, adapted or equipped as to be unsuitable for general teaching purposes;

(c)any area constructed, adapted or equipped primarily for the storage of apparatus, equipment or materials used in teaching; and

(d)any part of an area which is required for the movement of pupils through that area and which is used wholly or mainly for that purpose.

2.  The establishment or discontinuance of provision which is recognised by the local education authority as reserved for children with special educational needs.

3.  An alteration to a school such that —

(a)a school which was an establishment which admitted pupils of one sex only becomes an establishment which admits pupils of both sexes, or

(b)a school which was an establishment which admitted pupils of both sexes becomes an establishment which admits pupils of one sex only.

4.(1) In the case of a school at which there is any year group who are taught wholly or mainly through the medium of Welsh, an alteration to the school such that all pupils in that year group would be taught wholly or mainly through the medium of English.

(2) In the case of a school at which there is any year group who are taught wholly or mainly through the medium of English, an alteration to the school such that all pupils in that year group would be taught wholly or mainly through the medium of Welsh.

5.  The transfer of a school to a new site except where the main entrance of the school on its new site will be within 1.609344 kilometres (one mile) of the main entrance of the school on its old site.