Explanatory note

This Order provides for the attainment targets and programmes of study specified in relation to the various key stages of a pupil’s compulsory schooling in the document published by Her Majesty’s Stationery Office in January 1995 entitled “Mathematics in the National Curriculum” (ISBN 0 11 270883 8) to have effect for the purpose of specifying those elements of the National Curriculum for mathematics. These provisions apply with effect from 1st August 1995 for pupils in key stages 1 to 3, from 1st August 1996 for pupils in the first year of key stage 4 and from 1st August 1997 for pupils in the second year of that key stage.

The Order supersedes the provisions of the Education (National Curriculum) (Attainment Targets and Programmes of Study in Mathematics) Order 1991 in respect of pupils in a particular key stage from the date on which the provisions of this Order take effect in relation to pupils in that key stage.