The Education (National Curriculum) (Attainment Targets and Programmes of Study in Art) (Wales) Order 1998

Made: 29th July 1998

Laid before Parliament: 7th August 1998

Coming into force: 31st August 1998

Now therefore the Secretary of State for Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by sections 356(2)(a) and (b) and (4) and 568(5) and (6) of the Education Act 1996, hereby makes the following Order in the terms of the said draft:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1

• (1) This Order may be cited as the Education (National Curriculum) (Attainment Targets and Programmes of Study in Art) (Wales) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 31st August 1998.

• (2) In this Order–

• “the Document” means the Document published by Her Majesty’s Stationery Office in January 1995 entitled “Art in the National Curriculum (Wales)”³; and

• references to the first, second and third key stages are to the periods mentioned in paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) respectively of section 355(1) of the Education Act 1996.

• (3) This Order applies only in relation to schools in Wales.

Revocation

2

The Education (National Curriculum) (Attainment Targets and Programmes of Study in Art) (Wales) Order 1995⁴ is hereby revoked.

Specification of attainment targets and programmes of study

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• (1) Paragraph (2) below applies in relation to pupils in the first and second key stages at schools in Wales, but only in relation to the school years beginning in 1998 and 1999 respectively.

• (2) It is hereby directed that the provisions relating to attainment targets and programmes of study set out in the Document shall have effect for the purpose of specifying the attainment targets and programmes of study in relation to art with the amendments specified in the Schedule.

• (3) Paragraph (4) below applies–

• (a) in relation to pupils in the first and second key stages at schools in Wales, but only in relation to school years beginning in or after 2000; and

• (b) in relation to pupils in the third key stage at such schools (in relation to any school year).

• (4) It is hereby directed that the provisions relating to attainment targets and programmes of study set out in the Document shall have effect for the purpose of specifying attainment targets and programmes of study in relation to art.

4

The examples printed in italics in the Document (which serve to illustrate the programmes of study described therein) do not form part of the provision made by this Order.

SCHEDULE

AMENDMENT OF THE DOCUMENT AS IT APPLIES TO PUPILS IN THE FIRST AND SECOND KEY STAGES IN THE SCHOOL YEARS COMMENCING IN 1998 AND 1999.

1

The Document is amended as follows.

2

In the section headed “KEY STAGE 1 PROGRAMME OF STUDY”–

• (a) under the heading “UNDERSTANDING”, paragraph 2 is omitted;

• (b) under the heading “MAKING”, paragraphs 2, 3, 4 and 5 are omitted; and

• (c) under the heading “INVESTIGATING”, paragraph 3 is omitted.

3

In the section headed “KEY STAGE 2 PROGRAMME OF STUDY”–

• (a) under the heading “UNDERSTANDING”, paragraphs 2 and 3 are omitted;

• (b) under the heading “MAKING”, paragraphs 2, 3, 4 and 5 are omitted; and

• (c) under the heading “INVESTIGATING”, paragraph 4 is omitted.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales

Peter Hain — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office — 29th July 1998

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order provides for provisions specified in relation to the first, second and third key stages of a pupil’s compulsory schooling in the document published by Her Majesty’s Stationery Office entitled “Art in the National Curriculum (Wales)” to have effect for the purpose of specifying attainment targets and programmes of study for art in relation to schools in Wales. In the case of pupils in the first and second key stages, for the school years beginning in 1998 and 1999 those provisions apply with the amendments specified in the Schedule to the Order, but otherwise all the provisions apply.

The Order, which comes into force on 31st August 1998, supersedes the provisions of the Education (National Curriculum) (Attainment Targets and Programmes of Study in Art) (Wales) Order 1995.

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