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The Education (National Curriculum) (Foundation Stage Profile Assessment Arrangements) (England) Order 2003

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This Order made under Section 87 of the Education Act 2002 specifies the assessment arrangements in relation to the foundation stage which became part of the National Curriculum under that Act. It applies in respect of children who are in the final year of the foundation stage attending maintained schools, maintained nursery schools and non-maintained nursery education settings funded by a local education authority.

The Order provides that children in the final year of the foundation stage shall be assessed throughout that year in relation to their levels of attainment in each of the areas of study for which early learning goals have been specified pursuant to an Order made under section 87(2)(a) of the Education Act 2002 and that a foundation stage profile shall be completed for each child in the final term of that year. This shall be in the form of a record of attainment based on progress against the prescribed assessment scales that relate to each of the early learning goals.

Practitioners and others who are responsible for conducting foundation stage profiles are required to have regard to guidance issued by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority(1) entitled “The Foundation Stage Profile Handbook” in relation to their assessment of the child’s progress and completion of the foundation stage profile. The behaviours which should be assessed in order to complete the foundation stage profile are set out in the guidance.

Local education authorities are required to monitor the way in which the assessments and foundation stage profiles are being conducted by teachers to ensure consistency and proper implementation of the statutory provisions.

The Order also requires details of the results of the foundation stage profile assessments and related information set out in the Schedule to the Order to be provided to parents and to the local education authority and by the local education authority to the Secretary of State at the end of each school year.

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The Qualification and Curriculum Authority was established under section 21 of the Education Act 1977 (c. 44).

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