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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-national-curriculum-assessment-arrangements-for-english-mathematics-and-science-order-1990/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/1543",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (National Curriculum) (Assessment Arrangements for English, Mathematics and Science) Order 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-national-curriculum-assessment-arrangements-for-english-mathematics-and-science-order-1990",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nSection 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 English (in the first key stage), mathematics and science were specified by three Orders (S.I.s 1989/907, 308 and 309 respectively).\nThis Order specifies the assessment arrangements for these core foundation subjects in the final year of the first key stage, as they apply to maintained schools in England.\nPupils are to be assessed during the spring term by teachers and a record of the results, consisting of the pupils' levels of attainment in relation to each attainment target, is to be made (article 4). During the summer term tasks known as standard assessment tasks (SATs) published by HMSO on behalf of the Secretary of State are to be administered to pupils and the results recorded (article 5).\nRules are specified for determining the inter-relation of teacher assessment results and SAT results (article 6), for applying the levels of attainment to produce profile component levels (article 7), and for applying profile component levels to determine subject levels of attainment (article 8).\nThese rules 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 have been unable to complete SATs due to absence from school (article 10).",
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  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1543/note",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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