The Education (National Curriculum) (Key Stage 1 Assessment Arrangements) (England) (Amendment) Order 2000
S.I. 2000/1242 · Made 28 April 2000
EDUCATION, ENGLAND
Made 28th April 2000
Coming into force 28th April 2000
In exercise of powers conferred on the Secretary of State by sections 356(2)(c) and (5) and 568(5) of the Education Act 1996f1, the Secretary of State for Education and Employment hereby makes the following Order:
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Footnotes
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Contents
1Citation and commencement
This Order may be cited as the Education (National Curriculum) (Key Stage 1 Assessment Arrangements) (England) (Amendment) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 28th April 2000.
2Amendment of Order
The Education (National Curriculum) (Key Stage 1 Assessment Arrangements) (England) Order 1999f1 shall be amended as follows.
In article 5 there shall be inserted at the end the following paragraph—
“(8)As soon as reasonably practicable after standard test and task assessments have been administered to pupils pursuant to sub-paragraph (1), the head teacher shall provide the local education authority with a signed statement, confirming that those standard test and task assessments were administered in accordance with the provisions of the document in which they were published.”f2.
Signature
Margaret Hodge
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department for Education and Employment
28th April 2000
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order amends the Education (National Curriculum) (Key Stage 1 Assessment Arrangements) (England) Order 1999. That Order specifies the assessment arrangements for the core subjects in the final year of the first key stage. The only change made to those regulations is the introduction of a statutory duty on the part of the head teacher to provide a signed statement to the local education authority confirming that the assessment arrangement test and tasks were administered in accordance with the provisions of the document in which they were published.