Regulation 7 Head teacher’s report to parents and adult pupilsI1

England and Wales Not yet in force

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

reg. 7(10)(b) words omitted by National Curriculum (Key Stage 2 Assessment Arrangements) 2004 reg. 5(2)
reg. 7(11) words omitted by National Curriculum (Key Stage 2 Assessment Arrangements) 2004 reg. 5(2)
reg. 7 coming into force by Education (Pupil Information) 2004 reg. 1(1)
reg. 7(10)(b) omitted by National Curriculum Assessment Arrangements 2005 reg. 5(3)
reg. 7(11) omitted by National Curriculum Assessment Arrangements 2005 reg. 5(3)
reg. 7(12) omitted by National Curriculum Assessment Arrangements 2005 reg. 5(3)
reg. 7(13) omitted by National Curriculum Assessment Arrangements 2005 reg. 5(3)
reg. 7(3)(c) words substituted by Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (Consequential Amendments) 2010 reg. 7(b)
reg. 7(10)(a) words substituted by Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (Consequential Amendments) 2010 reg. 7(c)

(1)

The head teacher of every maintained school other than a nursery school or a pupil referral unit must make available, each school year, in accordance with this regulation a report in writing containing the information specified in this regulation.

(2)

The persons to whom the report must be made available are—

(a)

in the case of pupils registered at the school aged 18 or over at the time a report is made available and who are not proposing to leave the 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; or

(b)

in the case of all other pupils registered at the school, the parent of each such pupil.

(3)

The report must contain the information about the educational achievements of the pupil to whom or to whose parent the report is made available and the other information relating to him or her specified—

(a)

as respects pupils in, respectively, the first, second, third and fourth key stages, in, respectively, paragraphs 1, 2, 3 and 4, of Part 1 of Schedule 2;

(b)

as respects pupils in any key stage, in Part 2 of that Schedule;

(c)

as respects pupils who were entered for any approved external qualifications at NQF level 3 or above, in Part 3 of that Schedule; and

(d)

as respects all pupils registered at the school (including those referred to in sub-paragraphs (a) to (c) above), in Part 4 of that Schedule.

(4)

In the case of the pupils registered at the school in, respectively, the first, second and third key stages there must be included in the report the information relating to the educational achievements of all other such pupils registered at the school in that key stage whose achievements were assessed under the statutory asssessments at the same time as the pupil’s achievements, and the other information relating to such pupils, specified in paragraphs 1, 2 and 3, respectively, of Schedule 3 to these Regulations.

(5)

In the case of the pupils registered at the school in the first key stage there must be included in the report the information specified in paragraph 1 of Schedule 4 relating to the educational achievements of all pupils at schools in Wales who were in that key stage in the preceding school year and whose achievements were assessed under the statutory assessments in that preceding school year.

(6)

In the case of the pupils registered at the school in the second and third key stages there must be included in the report the information specified in paragraph 2 of Schedule 4 relating to the educational achievements of all pupils at schools in Wales who were in one of those key stages in the preceding school year and whose achievements were assessed under the statutory assessments in that preceding school year.

(7)

Nothing in this regulation is to prevent the information specified in paragraphs (3) to (6) being contained in more than one report provided that, subject to paragraph (9), the head teacher must each school year send such information by post or otherwise before the end of the summer term.

(8)

The period to which a report containing any information specified in paragraph (3) relates must in all cases begin with the later of—

(a)

the pupil’s admission to the school; or

(b)

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 12 related.

(9)

Where any of the particulars necessary to provide the information specified in paragraph (10) are not received by the head teacher until after the end of the summer term, he or she must make available such information as soon as practicable and in any event not later than the following 30th September.

(10)

The information is—

(a)

the details of approved external qualifications achieved by a pupil;

(b)

the results of NC tests taken by a pupil at the end of the second or third key stage; and

(c)

the information referred to in paragraphs 2(2) and 3(2) of Schedule 2 and paragraphs 2 and 3 of Schedule 3.

(11)

Paragraphs (12) and (13) apply where the head teacher has requested but not received before the end of the summer term a review by the external marking agency of the result of any of the NC tests taken by a pupil in the second or third key stage.

(12)

The information specified in paragraph (3) must indicate that the result which is the subject of the review is provisional.

(13)

Once the reviewed result has been received by the head teacher, he or she must make available as soon as practicable and in any event not later than the following 30th September after the summer term, information giving the reviewed result of the NC tests, to those persons who earlier received the information that the result of the NC tests was provisional.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Reg. 7 in force at 30.4.2004, see reg. 1(1)