Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as The Education (National Curriculum) (Assessment Arrangements for the Core Subjects) (Key Stage 1) (England) (Amendment) Order 1996 and shall come into force on 12th August 1996.

Amendment of Order

2.—(1) The Education (National Curriculum) (Assessment Arrangements for the Core Subjects) (Key Stage 1) (England) Order 1995(2) shall be amended as follows.

(2) At the end of article 4(3) (teacher assessment) there shall be added “or 4th July falling in that term, if earlier”.

(3) In paragraph (4) of article 5, for “paragraph (5)” there shall be substituted “paragraphs (4A) and (5)”, and there shall be inserted after that paragraph the following paragraph—

“(4A) In the case of English, if the document in which the standard tasks are published so requires, the record of the pupil’s level of attainment in AT3 (writing) shall include a statement of the pupil’s level of attainment in spelling.”.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Education (National Curriculum) (Assessment Arrangements for the Core Subjects) (Key Stage 1) (England) Order 1995 in relation to the 1996–97 school year and succeeding school years. It amends the time by which teacher assessment is to be completed so as to require this by 4th July or two weeks before the end of the summer term if that is earlier, and requires, where the document in which standard tasks are published so requires, a separate statement of the pupil’s level of attainment in spelling to be recorded.