The Education (National Curriculum) (Attainment Targets and Programmes of Study in Welsh) (Amendment) Order 1992

Made: 13th July 1992

Laid before Parliament: 15th July 1992

Coming into force: 5th August 1992

Whereas the Secretary of State has given notice of the proposal to make an Order to the Curriculum Council for Wales and to all other persons with whom consultation appeared to him desirable, in accordance with section 21(2) of the Education Reform Act 1988[^f00001];

And whereas the Secretary of State in accordance with subsection (3) of the said section 21, duly published a draft of this Order and other documents mentioned in that subsection and sent copies of them to the said Council and to each of the persons consulted by him, and allowed a period of not less than one month for the submission of evidence and representations;

And whereas that period has now expired.

Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 4(2)(a) and (b) and (4) of the Education Reform Act 1988, the Secretary of State hereby makes the following Order in the terms of the said draft:

Citation, commencement and interpretation and extent

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• (1) This Order may be cited as the Education (National Curriculum) (Attainment Targets and Programmes of Study in Welsh) (Amendment) Order 1992 and shall come into force on 5th August 1992.

• (2) In this Order any reference to the principal Order is a reference to the Education (National Cirriculum) (Attainment Targets and Programmes of Study in Welsh) Order 1990[^f00002].

Amendment of the principal Order

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The principal Order shall be amended as follows:—

• (a) In Part I of Schedule 3 (Schools in the County of Dyfed) omit the reference to `Sir Thomas Picton School'.

• (b) In Part II of Schedule 3 (Schools inthe County of Dyfed) after the reference to Milford Haven School' addSir Thomas Picton School'.

• (c) In Part VII of Schedule 4 (Schools in the County of Gwent, Chepstow Secondary School) after the reference to

add:

• (d) In Part IX of Schedule 4 (Schools in the County of Gwent, Monmouth Secondary School) after the reference to

add:

Signed

David Hunt — Secretary of State for Wales — 13th July 1992

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

Section 10(3) of the Rducation Reform Act 1988 imposes on local education authorities, governing bodies and head teachers of schools the duty to teach the subjects comprising the National Curriculum including Welsh for a reasonable time during each of the key stages defined in the Act. This duty is replaced by the provisions of the attainment targets and programmes of study in a subject in the National Cirriculum when these come into force by order of the Secretary of State. In respect of Welsh, the attainment targets and programmes of study come into force over a period of time by virtue of the provisions of the Education (National Cirriculum) (Attainment Targets and Programmes of Study in Welsh) Order 1990 (S.I. 1990/1082) (“the principal Order”).

Regulations have already been made (The Education (National Curriculum) (Exceptions) (Wales) Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/2187)) which disapply the provisions of section 10()3) of the 1988 Act with regard to the teaching of Welsh in a key stage in a school where Welsh has not been taught to more than half of the total number of pupils in the school year in that year in either the school year 1987/88 or the school year 1988/89.

Among other provisions the Education (National Curriculum) (Attainment Targets and Programmes of Study in Welsh) (Amendment) Order 1991 (“the amendment Order”) amended the operation of the principal Order in relation to the schools listed in Schedule 3-6 set out in the Appendix to the amendment Order (which became Schedules with the same numbers to the principal Order). As regards these schools, the coming into force of the provisions of the principal Order was postponed as respects each year and key stage referred to in the Schedules to the dates referred to opposite each year and key stage.

This further amendment Order makes minor amendments to Schedules 3 and 4 to the principal Order. Sir Thomas Picton School in the County of Dyfed is moved from the provisions of Part I to Part II of Schedule 3 so as to postpone the coming into force of the provisions of the principal Order in relation to the third key stage for the school by a further two years. The coming into force of the principal Order as regards pupils in the third year of the third key stage in Chepstow Secondary School and Monmouth Secondary School in the County of Gwent is postponed to 1st August 1995 and 1st August 1996 respectively.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1988 c. 40

[^f00002]: S.I. 1990/1082. Amendments were made to this Order by the Education (national Curriculum) (attainment Targets and Programmes of Study in Welsh) (Amendment) Order 1991. S.I. 1991/1683.