The Education (National Curriculum) (Assessment Arrangements for the Core Subjects) (Key Stage 2) (England) (Amendment) Order 1996

Amendment of Order

2.—(1) The Education (National Curriculum) (Assessment Arrangements for the Core Subjects) (Key Stage 2) (England) Order 1995(1) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In article 3(1) (interpretation) for the paragraph beginning ““NC tests” and “NC tasks”” there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

““NC tests” means National Curriculum tests administered to pupils for the purpose of assessing the level of attainment which they have achieved in any core subject and “NC assessment timetable” means a timetable for the administration of NC tests, being respectively tests and a timetable laid down in provisions made by the Secretary of State under article 9 which have been published by Her Majesty’s Stationery Office;”.

(3) At the end of article 4(3) (teacher assessment) there shall be added “or 4th July falling in that term, if earlier”.

(4) For article 5 there shall be substituted the following article—

“NC test assessment

5.— (1) It shall be the duty of the head teacher to make arrangements for each pupil to whom this article applies in respect of any core subject to be assessed in that subject in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (3).

(2) This article applies to a pupil in respect of a core subject if, in the opinion of his head teacher, his level of attainment in that subject, if he were to be assessed by the administration to him of NC tests in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (3), would be level 3 or higher.

(3) Where this article applies to a pupil in respect of a core subject NC tests shall be administered to him in accordance with the provisions of the document in which they are published at the times specified in the relevant NC assessment timetable and as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter the pupil’s responses to the NC tests shall be provided to the external marking agency determined by the Authority and notified by them to the head teacher to be marked.

(4) Following the marking of NC tests the external marking agency shall provide to the head teacher a record of the results consisting of each level of attainment achieved by the pupil.”.

(5) In article 9 the words “and NC tasks” and the words “and tasks”, in each place where they appear, shall be omitted.

(1)

S.I. 1995/2072.