The Education (National Curriculum) (Key Stage 1 Assessment Arrangements) (England) (Amendment) Order 1999

Statutory Instruments

1999 No. 2187

EDUCATION, ENGLAND

The Education (National Curriculum) (Key Stage 1 Assessment Arrangements) (England) (Amendment) Order 1999

Made

9th August 1999

Coming into force

16th August 1999

In exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by sections 356(2)(c) and (5) and 568(5) and (6) of the Education Act 1996(1), the Secretary of State for Education and Employment hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Education (National Curriculum) (Key Stage 1 Assessment Arrangements) (England) (Amendment) Order 1999 and shall come into force on 16th August 1999.

Amendment of Order

2.—(1) The Education (National Curriculum) (Key Stage 1 Assessment Arrangements) (England) Order 1999(2) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In article 4(4) (teacher assessment) there shall be substituted for the reference to “section 4(2)(a) and (b)” a reference to “section 356(2)(a) and (b)”.

(3) There shall be substituted for paragraph (1) of article 7 (further assessment: English and mathematics), the following paragraph–

“(1) Where in the opinion of his head teacher a pupil’s level of attainment in mathematics or, in the case of English, AT2 (Reading) or AT3 (Writing) or both, would, if the pupil were assessed by the administration to him of the NC tests for mathematics or, in the case of English, AT2 (Reading) or AT3 (Writing) or both, as the case may be, laid down for the purposes of the Education (National Curriculum) (Assessment Arrangements for the Core Subjects) (Key Stage 2) (England) Order 1999(3), be level 4 or higher, it shall be the duty of the head teacher to make arrangements for the pupil to be assessed in mathematics or, AT2 (Reading) or AT3 (Writing) or both, as the case may be, by the administration to him of those tests at such time as is specified by the Secretary of State pursuant to article 11; and article 5(3) and (5) (apart from the words “Subject to article 7”) of that Order shall apply in relation to that pupil accordingly.”.

Estelle Morris

Minister of State,

Department for Education and Employment

9th August 1999

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Education (National Curriculum) (Key Stage 1 Assessment Arrangements) (England) Order 1999. That Order specifies the assessment arrangements for the core subjects in the final year of the first key stage. The main change is the substitution of new provision with respect to the further assessment of a pupil in English under article 7 of that Order (article 2(3)).

(1)

1996 c. 56. By virtue of S.I. 1999/672, the powers conferred by these sections are exercisable by the Secretary of State only in relation to England.

(2)

S.I. 1999/1236.

(3)

S.I. 1999/2188.