The Education (Individual Pupils' Achievements) (Information) (Amendment) Regulations 1995

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Education (Individual Pupils' Achievements) (Informa– tion) Regulations 1993 (“the principal Regulations”). Apart from minor drafting amendments, the following changes of substance are made.

The educational achievements of pupils in the final year of the second key stage are to be reported in the headteacher’s report (“the report”), both in relation to the individual pupil and in relation to all such pupils at the school (regulations 3(1) to (4), 8(1), (3), 9(1) and (5)).

In the case of pupils in the final year of the first or third key stage, the report must include the national comparative information about the educational achievements of all pupils at schools in England who, in relation to the report for pupils in the final year of the first key stage, were in the final year of that key stage in the preceding school year and, in relation to the report for pupils in the final year of the third key stage, were in the final year of that key stage in the preceding school year (regulations 3(1), (5) and 10).

In the case of pupils in the final year of the second or third key stage, only the result of whichever NC tests or NC tasks (where both are administered to the pupil) indicates the pupil’s highest level of attainment must be included in the report (regulation 3(1) and (5)).

Where a headteacher requests a review of the result of any NC tests taken by a pupil in the final year of the second or third key stage by the external marking agency and the result of the review is not known to the headteacher before the end of the summer term, he is required to indicate in the report that the result that is the subject of the review is provisional. The reviewed result is to be reported before the following 30th September, whether it is different or not to the provisional result (regulation 3(1) and (9)).

Regulation 8(1) and (2) amend paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations. The information on the individual educational achievements of pupils in the final year of the first key stage will include, where applicable, the results of any key stage 2 NC tests administered to the pupil pursuant to article 6A(1) of the Education (National Curriculum) (Assessment Arrangements for the Core Subjects) (Key Stage 2) (England) Order 1994.

For the purposes of the information to be included in the report on the educational achievements of pupils at the school in the final year of the first key stage, “registered pupils” means those pupils registered at the school as at two weeks before the end of the summer term (regulation 9(2)).