Title and commencement
1. The title of these Regulations is the Education (School Day and School Year) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 and they come into force on 18 February 2011.
Amendment of Regulations
2.—(1) The Education (School Day and School Year) (Wales) Regulations 2003(1) are amended as follows.
(2) At the end of regulation 4 insert—
“(7) The reference in paragraph (2) to 380 sessions is to be taken as a reference to 378 sessions in relation to the school year 2010-2011 and the school year 2011-2012.”.
(3) For regulation 5 substitute—
“5.—(1) This paragraph applies to any school session falling within the school year 2010-2011 which is devoted (wholly or mainly) to the provision of training (including training attended by both teaching and non-teaching staff and training conducted jointly with other schools), or preparation and planning, for teachers in maintained schools.
(2) Paragraph (1) is to have effect in relation to no more than four school sessions in the third term of the school year in relation to which that paragraph applies.
(3) If, during the first or second term of the school year to which paragraph (1) applies, a school is prevented from meeting due to bad weather, the four school sessions provided for in paragraph (2) are to be reduced for that year by the number of school sessions on which the school was unable to meet (up to a maximum of four).
(4) Where paragraph (1) applies in relation to a school session, that session is to be regarded for the purposes of regulation 4 as a session on which the school has met.”.
Leighton Andrews
Minister for Children, Education and Lifelong Learning, one of the Welsh Ministers
25 January 2011