The Education (Arrangements for Assessing in the Curriculum for Wales) Regulations 2022

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations—

“the 1996 Act” (“Deddf 1996”) means the Education Act 1996(1);

“the 2021 Act” (“Deddf 2021”) means the Curriculum and Assessment (Wales) Act 2021;

“child” (“plentyn”) has the meaning given to it in section 579(1) of the 1996 Act;

“compulsory school age” (“oedran ysgol gorfodol”) has the meaning given to it in section 8 of the 1996 Act(2);

“funded non-maintained nursery education” (“addysg feithrin a gyllidir ond nas cynhelir”) has the meaning given to it in section 80(1)(a) of the 2021 Act;

“maintained school” (“ysgol a gynhelir”) has the meaning given to it in section 79(1)(a) of the 2021 Act;

“maintained nursery school” (“ysgol feithrin a gynhelir”) has the meaning given to it in section 79(1)(b) of the 2021 Act;

“nursery education” (“addysg feithrin”) means education provided to children and pupils below compulsory school age—

(a)

in a maintained school or a maintained nursery school, or

(b)

by the provider of funded non-maintained nursery education;

“non-PRU EOTAS” (“addysg ac eithrio yn yr ysgol nad yw mewn UCD”) means education arranged or provided by a local authority under section 19A of the 1996 Act(3) otherwise than at a pupil referral unit and which meets the requirements of section 53 of the 2021 Act;

“practitioner” (“ymarferydd”) means a person who provides teaching and learning in respect of the relevant curriculum;

“pupil” (“disgybl”) has the meaning given to it in section 3 of the 1996 Act(4);

“pupil referral unit” (“uned cyfeirio disgyblion”) has the meaning given to it in section 81(1) of the 2021 Act;

“reception year” (“blwyddyn derbyn”) means a year group in which the majority of the pupils attain the age of 5;

“registered pupil” (“disgybl cofrestredig”) has the meaning given to it by section 434(5) of the 1996 Act;

“relevant curriculum” (“cwricwlwm perthnasol”) has the meaning given to it in section 56(5) of the 2021 Act;

“relevant person” (“person perthnasol”) means—

(a)

in relation to a maintained school or a maintained nursery school, the head teacher and the governing body of that school,

(b)

in relation to funded non-maintained nursery education, the provider of that education,

(c)

in relation to a pupil referral unit the teacher in charge, the management committee and the local authority which maintains that pupil referral unit, and

(d)

in relation to non-PRU EOTAS, the local authority arranging or providing the education under section 19A of the 1996 Act;

“school term” (“tymor ysgol”) means the dates on which the school terms and holidays are to begin and end;

“school year” (“blwyddyn ysgol”) means the period beginning with the first school term to begin after July and ending with the beginning of the first such term to begin after the following July;

“year 1” (“blwyddyn 1”) means a year group in which the majority of pupils attain the age of 6;

“year 2” (“blwyddyn 2”) means a year group in which the majority of pupils attain the age of 7;

“year 3” (“blwyddyn 3”) means a year group in which the majority of pupils attain the age of 8;

“year 4” (“blwyddyn 4”) means a year group in which the majority of pupils attain the age of 9;

“year 5” (“blwyddyn 5”) means a year group in which the majority of pupils attain the age of 10;

“year 6” (“blwyddyn 6”) means a year group in which the majority of pupils attain the age of 11;

“year 7” (“blwyddyn 7”) means a year group in which the majority of pupils attain the age of 12;

“year 8” (“blwyddyn 8”) means a year group in which the majority of pupils attain the age of 13;

“year 9” (“blwyddyn 9”) means a year group in which the majority of pupils attain the age of 14;

“year 10” (“blwyddyn 10”) means a year group in which the majority of pupils attain the age of 15;

“year 11” (“blwyddyn 11”) means a year group in which the majority of pupils attain the age of 16.

(1)

1996 c. 56.

(2)

Subsection (2) was substituted by section 52(2) of the Education Act 1997 (c. 44). Subsection (4) was substituted by section 53(3) of the Education Act 1997.

(3)

Section 19A was inserted by section 73 and paragraph 4 of Schedule 2 to the 2021 Act.

(4)

Subsection (1) was amended by section 57(1) and paragraph 9 of Schedule 7 to the Education Act 1997 and subsection (1) and (1A) were further amended by section 215(1) and paragraph 34 of Schedule 21 to the Education Act 2002 (c. 32).