The Education (Individual Pupils' Achievements) (Information) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 1997

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Education (Individual Pupils' Achievements) (Information) (Wales) Regulations 1997 (“the principal Regulations”) which apply to pupils and former pupils at maintained schools in Wales.

Apart from a minor drafting amendment, the main amendments are to Schedules 1 and 2 to the principal Regulations, which are concerned with information to be included in the head teacher’s report to parents of pupils at key stages 1, 2 and 3. The amendments reflect changes in the assessment arrangements at those key stages, which now provide—

(a) for a pupil’s level of attainment in the English “Writing” attainment target, as ascertained by the application of NC tests, to include a separate statement of his level in spelling where the document in which the test is published so requires, and

(b) in the case of key stages 2 and 3, for NC tests to be administered only to more able pupils.

See regulations 4 and 5.

Other, more minor, amendments to the principal Regulations include the omission of paragraph 1(4) of Schedule 1, which has now become otiose following changes in the assessment arrangements (regulation 4). A definition of “education welfare officer” has been inserted in the principal Regulations, and the definition of “external marking agency” in those Regulations has been amended to reflect a change of name of the body specified in that definition as the body by which that agency is to be nominated (regulation 3).