Explanatory note

These Regulations revoke and replace, with amendments, the Education (Individual Pupils' Achievements) (Information) Regulations 1993, as amended.

These Regulations reflect changes in the assessment arrangements for key stages 2 and 3 introduced by, respectively, the Education (National Curriculum) (Assessment Arrangements for the Core Subjects) (Key Stage 2) (England) (Amendment) Order 1996, (which amended the Education (National Curriculum) (Assessment Arrangements for the Core Subjects) (Key Stage 2) (England) Order 1995), and the Education (National Curriculum) (Key Stage 3 Assessment Arrangements) (England) Order 1996. For key stage 3, teacher assessment is now required to be carried out in respect of all foundation subjects, not just in English, mathematics and science as previously. These changes are reflected in regulation 7(2)(b) and Schedule 1, paragraph 3. For both key stages 2 and 3, national curriculum tasks are no longer required to be administered to pupils for assessment purposes and references to NC tasks at those key stages have been omitted accordingly.

Definitions of “the associated documents”, “foundation subjects”, “GCSE” and “maintained school” have been added (regulation 3(1)).

The headteacher’s report to parents and adult pupils need not be made available to parents in the case of a pupil who is over compulsory school age and who is proposing to leave the school or who has left it. In such a case, the school leaver’s report under regulation 6 is, as before, to be made available to the pupil concerned (regulation 4(2)).