Regulation 4 Head teacher’s report to parents and adult pupils
The head teacher of every maintained school shall each school year make available to the persons specified in paragraph (2) in writing a report containing the information specified in paragraphs (3) to (5).
The persons are—
in the case of pupils registered at the school aged 18 or over at the time a report is sent and who are not proposing to leave school by the end of the school year to which the report relates, each such pupil and, if the head teacher considers there to be special circumstances which make it appropriate, the parent of each such pupil;
subject to sub-paragraph (c), in the case of all other pupils registered at the school, the parent of each such pupil;
sub-paragraph (b) does not apply to any pupil registered at the school who has ceased to be of compulsory school age and who is proposing to leave the school or who has left the school (and in respect of whom the information in regulation 6 is to be made available to the pupil concerned).
The report shall contain the information about the educational achievements of the pupil to whom or to whose parent the report is sent and the other information relating to him specified—
as respects pupils in the final year of any of the first, second, third or fourth key stages, in Part 1 of Schedule 1;
as respects pupils in any other year of a key stage, in Part 2 of Schedule 1;
as respects pupils who have been entered for GCE ‘A’ level or GCE ‘AS’ examinations or IB or who have obtained a vocational qualification, in Part 3 of Schedule 1; and
as respects all other pupils, in Part 4 of Schedule 1.
In the case of the pupils registered at the school in the final year of the first, second or third key stage there shall be included in the report the information relating to the educational achievements of all other pupils in that key stage registered at the school whose achievements were assessed at the same time as the pupil’s achievements, and the other information relating to such pupils, specified in Schedule 2.
In the case of the pupils registered at the school in the final year of the first, second or third key stage there shall be included in the report the information specified in paragraph 1, 2 or 3, as the case may be, of Schedule 3 relating to the educational achievements of all pupils at schools in England who were in the final year of that key stage in the preceding school year and whose achievements were assessed in that preceding school year.
Nothing in this regulation shall prevent the information specified in paragraphs (3) to (5) being contained in more than one report provided that, subject to paragraph (8), the head teacher shall each school year send such information by post or otherwise before the end of the summer term.
The period to which a report containing any information specified in paragraph (3) relates shall in all cases begin with the later of—
the pupil’s admission to the school; and
the end of the period to which the last report on such matters made pursuant to these Regulations, or as the case may be the regulations revoked by regulation 2, related.
Where any of the particulars necessary to provide the information specified in paragraph (9) are not received by the head teacher until after the end of the summer term, he shall send such information as soon as practicable and in any event not later than the following 30th September.
The information is—
the results of public examinations taken or details of vocational qualifications achieved by a pupil; or
the results of NC tests taken by a pupil at the end of the second or third key stage or pursuant to article 7(1) of the 1995 (Key Stage 1) Order as given in the record of results provided by the external marking agency in accordance with, as the case may be, the 1995 (Key Stage 2) Order or the 1996 (Key Stage 3) Order; or
the information referred to in paragraphs 2(3) and 3(4) of Schedule 1 and paragraphs 2 and 3 of Schedule 2.
Paragraphs (11) and (12) apply where, before the end of the summer term the head teacher has requested, but not received the result of, a review by the external marking agency of the result of any of the NC tests taken by a pupil in the final year of the second or third key stage or pursuant to article 7(1) of the 1995 (Key Stage 1) Order.
The information specified in paragraph (3)(a) shall indicate that the result which is the subject of the review is provisional.
Once the review result has been received by the head teacher, he shall send as soon as practicable and in any event not later than the following 30th September after that summer term, information giving the reviewed result of the NC tests, to those persons who earlier received the information pursuant to paragraphs (1) and (11) whether or not it is different from that as originally notified to those persons.