Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Education (School Curriculum and Related Information) (Amendment) Regulations 1990 and shall come into force on 21st June 1990.

2.-(1) The Education (School Curriculum and Related Information) Regulations 1989(2) shall be amended in accordance with the provisions of this regulation.

(2) For paragraphs (1) and (2) of regulation 8 there shall be substituted the following paragraphs-�

"(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the head teacher of every county, voluntary and maintained special school (other than a special school established in a hospital) shall make available to the governing body of the school not later than the relevant date such particulars of the educational provision which is intended to be made in the school in the relevant school year in respect of pupils in each year group as are referred to in paragraph (3).

(2) Where the educational provision intended to be made for one or more classes in a year group is substantially different from the intended provision for other classes in that year group paragraph (1) shall have effect as if the reference to each year group were a reference to each class of that year group.".

(3) For paragraph (3) of regulation 8 there shall be substituted the following paragraph-�

"(3) The particulars referred to in paragraph (1) are:

(a)for a primary school:

(i)total lesson time per week, excluding time spent on registration;

(ii)the subjects or activities taught;

(iii)the percentage of time (to the nearest five per cent) spent in an average week on each National Curriculum subject, religious education and other activities;

(b)for year groups in a secondary school up to and including the year group in which the majority of the pupils attain the age of sixteen years:

(i)the subjects or courses taught;

(ii)the number of hours per week each subject or course is taught;

(iii)the total number of hours each subject or course is taught in the school year (differentiated to show the number of hours common to the whole year group and the number of hours of additional teaching for particular groups of pupils);

(iv)for each subject or course the time spent in each year on each National Curriculum subject, religious education and other activities;

(v)the number of pupils in the year group; and

(vi)the number of groups (if any) into which the total number of pupils referred to in sub-paragraph (v) is divided; and

(c)for each year group in a maintained special school not established in a hospital, the particulars referred to in sub-paragraph (a) or sub-paragraph (b), whichever are more appropriate having regard in particular to the levels of achievement of the pupils at the school.".

(4) In paragraph (4) of regulation 8 for the words "paragraph (2)" there shall be substituted the words "paragraph (1)".

(5) After paragraph (5) of regulation 8 there shall be added the following paragraph-�

"(6) In this regulation and regulation 10 "the relevant date" means-�

(a)in the case of a primary school, 30th September in each year;

(b)in the case of a secondary school, 31st July 1990 and thereafter 30th June in each year; and

(c)in the case of a maintained special school not established in a hospital, 30th September in each year, commencing with 30th September 1991;

and "the relevant school year" means-�

(a)in the case of a primary school and a maintained special school not established in a hospital, the school year in which the relevant date falls; and

(b)in the case of a secondary school, the school year next following the relevant date.".

(6) For paragraph (1) of regulation 9 there shall be substituted the following paragraph-�

"(h)The particulars required to be supplied by head teachers under regulation 8(1) shall be in the relevant form set out in Part 1, 2, or 2A of Schedule 1 (as the case may be), or a form to the like effect.".

(7) In paragraph (1) of regulation 10, for the words "regulation 8(3) and (5)" there shall be substituted the words "regulation 8(5)", and the words "1 or" and "(as the case may be)" shall be deleted.

(8) For paragraph (2) of regulation 10 there shall be substituted the following paragraph-�

"(2) The head teacher of every grant-maintained school shall make available to the governing body of the school not later than the relevant date such particulars of the educational provision which is intended to be made in the school in the relevant school year as are referred to in regulation 8(3), the particulars to be made available in the relevant form set out in Part 1, 2 or 2A of Schedule 1, or a form to the like effect.".

(9) In regulation 11, for the words "regulation 8(1) and (5)" there shall be substituted the words "regulation 8(5)".

(10) For the forms in Schedule 1 there shall be substituted the forms in the Schedule to these Regulations.

Regulation 2(10)

SCHEDULE

PART 1ANNUAL CURRICULUM RETURN: PRIMARY AND MIDDLE DEEMED PRIMARY SCHOOLS

PART 2ANNUAL CURRICULUM RETURN: SECONDARY AND MIDDLE DEEMED SECONDARY CURRICULUM ARRANGEMENTS COMMON TO WHOLE CLASS OR YEAR GROUP

PART 2AANNUAL CURRICULUM RETURN: SECONDARY AND MIDDLE DEEMED SECONDARY CURRICULUM OPTIONS TAKEN BY PART OF CLASS OR YEAR GROUP

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the regulations)

These Regulations further amend the Education (School Curriculum and Related Information) Regulations 1989.

In the case of any school maintained by a local education authority ("LEA"), the duty of the governing body to provide particulars to the LEA of the educational provision which has been made in their school in the school year, and the LEA's duty to provide those particulars to the Secretary of State, are revoked (regulation 2(2) and (9)). In the case of a grant-maintained school the duty of the governing body to provide such particulars to the Secretary of State is revoked (regulation 2(7)).

The date by which the head teacher of a LEA-maintained and a grant-maintained school is required to provide the particulars to the governing body is changed for a primary and a maintained special school from 30th June to 30th September in each year, and for secondary schools from 30th June to 31st July for 1990 only (regulation 2(2), (5) and (8)).

The particulars required by the 1989 regulations have been reduced and simplified substantially for primary schools and to a lesser extent for secondary schools (regulation 2(2), (3) and (6) ) and new corresponding prescribed forms have been substituted (regulation 2(10) and the Schedule). The head teacher of a grant-maintained school is required to provide the particulars in prescribed forms (ie as for LEA-maintained schools) (regulation 2(8)).