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Statutory Instruments
EDUCATION, ENGLAND AND WALES
Made
12th January 1995
Laid before Parliament
16th January 1995
Coming into force
except as provided in article 1(2)
1st August 1995
Having made, pursuant to section 242(1) of the Education Act 1993(1), such arrangements for consultation about their proposals as they considered appropriate, the Secretary of State for Education, as respects England, and the Secretary of State for Wales, as respects Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 4(2)(a) and (b) and (4) and 232(5) and (6) of the Education Reform Act 1988(2), hereby make the following Order:
1.-(1) This Order may be cited as the Education (National Curriculum) (Attainment Targets and Programmes of Study in English) Order 1995 and, subject to paragraph (2) below, shall come into force on 1st August 1995.
(2) The provisions of this Order in so far as they relate to the fourth key stage shall come into force-
(a)on 1st August 1996 in respect of pupils in the first year of that key stage; and
(b)on 1st August 1997 in respect of all other pupils in that key stage.
(3) In this Order "the Document" means the Document published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office in January 1995 entitled "English in the National Curriculum"(3); and
references to the second, third and fourth key stages shall be construed in accordance with section 3(3) to (6) of the Education Reform Act 1988(4).
2.-(1) The Education (National Curriculum) (Attainment Targets and Programmes of Study in English) Order 1989(5) is revoked.
(2) The Education (National Curriculum) (Attainment Targets and Programmes of Study in English) (No. 2) Order 1990(6) shall cease to apply-
(a)on 1st August 1995 in respect of pupils in the second and third key stages;
(b)on 1st August 1996 in respect of pupils in the first year of the fourth key stage; and
shall be revoked on 1st August 1997.
3. 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 purposes of specifying attainment targets and programmes of study in relation to English.
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.
Gillian Shephard
Secretary of State for Education
10th January 1995
John Redwood
Secretary of State for Wales
12th January 1995
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order provides for the attainment targets and programmes of study specified in relation to the various key stages of a pupil's compulsory schooling in the document published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office in January 1995 entitled "English in the National Curriculum" (ISBN 0 11 270882 X) to have effect for the purpose of specifying those elements of the National Curriculum for English. These provisions apply with effect from 1st August 1995 for pupils in key stages 1 to 3, from 1st August 1996 for pupils in the first year of key stage 4 and from 1st August 1997 for pupils in the second year of that key stage.
This Order supersedes the provisions of the Education (National Curriculum) (Attainment Targets and Programmes of Study in English) Order 1989, which applies to pupils in key stage 1, and the Education (National Curriculum) (Attainment Targets and Programmes of Study in English) (No. 2) Order 1990 in respect of pupils in key stages 2 to 4 from the date on which the provisions of this Order take effect in relation to pupils in those key stages.
