Explanatory note

This Order revokes and replaces the Education (National Curriculum) (Assessment Arrangements for the Core Subjects) (Key Stage 1) (England) Order 1995. It specifies the assessment arrangements for the core subjects in the final year of the first key stage, as they apply to maintained schools in England. “Maintained schools” are now defined to mean, in relation to the period before 1st September 1999, any county, voluntary or grant-maintained school or any maintained special or grant-maintained special school which is not established in a hospital and, in relation to the period on and after that date, to mean any community, foundation or voluntary school or any community or foundation special school not established in a hospital (article 3(1)).

The other main change from the 1995 Order is in article 6 (verification of assessments). The verifying authority for schools to which this Order applies is the local education authority.