These Regulations revoke and replace the Education (School Day and School Year) (Wales) Regulations 2000, as amended.

Regulation 4 makes provision about the length of the school day and the school year.

Regulation 5 provides that not more than two school sessions devoted to the training of teachers in the development of arrangements for entry of pupils into the first key stage and transition between the key stages and for the planning and delivery of the curriculum in each of the 2003—2004, 2004—2005 and 2005—2006 school years may be treated as sessions on which the school has met.