The Education (National Curriculum) (Attainment Targets and Programmes of Study in History) (Wales) (Amendment) Order 1991

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

Section 4(2) of the Education Reform Act 1988 places a duty on the Secretary of State to establish the National Curriculum by specifying appropriate targets, programmes of study and assessment arrangements for each of the foundation subjects.

Section 4(4) allows such an Order, instead of containing the provisions to be made, to refer to provisions in a Document published by Her Majesty’s Stationery Office and to direct that those provisions shall have effect subject to amendments.

The Education (National Curriculum) (Attainment Targets and Programmes of Study in History) (Wales) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/752) “the principal Order” refers to the Document entitled “History in the National Curriculum (Wales)” (“the Document”) and provides for the attainment targets and programmes of study set out in it to have effect for the four stages of a pupil’s compulsory schooling.

The principal Order as amended by the present Order directs that the Document be amended as respects the programme of study specified for key stage 3.

The amendments to the Document are contained in a new Schedule 3 and:—

(i) change the period studied in Unit 18 from c. 1760–c. 1960 to c. 1760–c. 1914;

(ii) replace existing Study Unit 27 with a Unit entitled “Britain, Europe and the World c. 1900–c. 1960” as detailed in Part II of that Schedule; and

(iii) amend the General Introduction of the Key Stage 3 Programme of Study to reflect these changes and to make clear that Unit 27 must be studied after Unit 18.