1998 No. 457

EDUCATION

Education (Assessment Arrangements for Key Stage 3) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 1998

Made

Coming into operation

The Department of Education, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Article 7(1)(b), 2(a)(ii) and (6) of the Education Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 19891 and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement1

This Order may be cited as the Education (Assessment Arrangements for Key Stage 3) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 1998 and shall come into operation on 28th January 1999.

Amendment of the Education (Assessment Arrangements for Key Stage 3) Order (Northern Ireland) 1997

2

The Education (Assessment Arrangements for Key Stage 3) Order (Northern Ireland) 19972 shall be amended as provided in articles 3 to 6.

3

In Article 4 (Interpretation) for the definition of “relevant subject” there shall be substituted the following definition—

  • “relevant subject” means—

    1. a

      subject to paragraph (b) English, Mathematics or Science;

    2. b

      in relation to a pupil who is in an Irish speaking school, Irish, English, Mathematics or Science;

4

In Article 5—

a

in paragraph (1) for the words “paragraph (2)” there shall be substituted the words “paragraphs (2) and (3)”;

b

in paragraph (2) there shall be inserted at the beginning the words “Subject to paragraph (3),”;

c

after paragraph (2) there shall be added the following paragraph—

3

Where a pupil is in an Irish speaking school he shall be assessed in Irish, English, Mathematics and Science at or near the end of the third key stage for the purpose of ascertaining what he has achieved in relation to the attainment targets for that key stage.

5

In Article 8(2) after the words “English and Mathematics” there shall be added “(and, in the case of a pupil who is in an Irish speaking school, in Irish)”.

6

For the Schedule there shall be inserted the following Schedule—

SCHEDULE

Article 4

Part 1

  • English

    • Key Stages 3 and 4

    • Programme of Study and Attainment Targets3

  • Irish (in Irish Speaking Schools)

    • Key Stages 3 and 4

    • Programme of Study and Attainment Targets4

  • Mathematics

    • Key Stages 3 and 4

    • Programme of Study and Attainment Targets5

  • Science

    • Key Stages 3 and 4

    • Programmes of Study and Attainment Targets6

Part 2

  • The Curriculum (Programme of Study and Attainment Targets in English at Key Stages 3 and 4) Order (Northern Ireland) 19967

  • The Curriculum (Programme of Study and Attainment Targets in Irish in Irish Speaking Schools at Key Stages 3 and 4) Order (Northern Ireland) 19988

  • The Curriculum (Programme of Study and Attainment Targets in Mathematics at Key Stages 3 and 4) Order (Northern Ireland) 19969

  • The Curriculum (Programmes of Study and Attainment Targets in Science at Key Stages 3 and 4) Order (Northern Ireland) 199610

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Education on

D. WoodsAssistant Secretary

(This note is not part of the Order.)

This Order amends the Education (Assessment Arrangements for Key Stage 3) Order (Northern Ireland) 1997.

It provides for the assessment of pupils in Key Stage 3 in Irish speaking schools in Irish as well as in English, Mathematics and Science.