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Section 4(1) and (2) of the Education Reform Act 1988 places a duty on the Secretary of State to establish the National Curriculum by specifying by order appropriate attainment targets, programmes of study and assessment arrangements for each of the foundation subjects. Attainment targets and programmes of study for pupils in the third key stage in English, Welsh, mathematics, science, Welsh Second Language and technology were specified by the respective Orders (S.I.s 1990/423, 1990/802, 1991/2896 and 2897, and 1990/424 respectively).
This Order specifies the assessment arrangements for these foundation subjects in the final year of the third key stage, as they apply to maintained schools in Wales.
Pupils are to be assessed by their teachers in relation to each attainment target on the basis of school work, and a record of the results, consisting of pupils' levels of attainment, is to be made by no later than 31 May (article 3). On dates specified in the NC Test Timetable (to be published by HMSO) National Curriculum Tests known as NC Tests published by HMSO on behalf of the Secretary of State are to be administered to pupils and the results recorded (article 4).
Arrangements are set out for the verification of schools' assessment standards by a body appointed by the Secretary of State (article 6) and for the use of verified attainment target levels for the purposes of determining profile component and subject levels in English and technology, and overall subject levels in Welsh, Welsh Second Language, mathematics and science (articles 7 and 8).
The requirements in these Regulations are modified in the case of pupils to whom provisions of the National Curriculum do not apply (article 9), and in the case of pupils who miss NC Tests through absence from school (article 10).
The Secretary of State is given power to give full effect to the provisions of the Order or to supplement its provisions (article 11).
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