(1)    This Order may be cited as the Education (National Curriculum) (Attainment Targets and Programmes of Study in Physical Education) (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 “Physical Education in the National Curriculum”; and

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

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

The Education (National Curriculum) (Attainment Targets and Programmes of Study in Physical Education) Order 1995 is hereby revoked so far as it applies to schools in Wales.

(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 physical education 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 and fourth key stages 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 physical education.

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.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales

Peter Hain

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Welsh Office

29th July 1998

1

The Document is amended as follows.

2

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

(a)    in paragraph 2 (Gymnastic activities), sub-paragraph b is omitted; and

(b)    in paragraph 3 (Dance), sub-paragraphs a and b are omitted.

3

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

(a)    in paragraph 3 (Dance), sub-paragraph a is omitted;

(b)    paragraph 4 (Athletic activities), sub-paragraph b is omitted; and

(c)    paragraph 5 (Outdoor and adventurous activities), is omitted.

This Order provides for provisions specified in the Document published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office entitled “Physical Education in the National Curriculum” to have effect for the purpose of specifying attainment targets and programmes of study for physical education 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. Except for one very minor modification in article 2 (the addition of the words “so far as it applies to schools in Wales”) the Order is in the terms of the draft Order on which the Secretary of State consulted in June/July 1998.

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 Physical Education) Order 1995.