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| Made | 9th December 2003 | ||
| Coming into force | 31st December 2003 |
Interpretation
3.
In these Regulations -
School sessions
4.
- (1) Subject to paragraph (6), every day on which a school meets is to be divided into two sessions which are to be separated by a break in the middle of the day unless exceptional circumstances make this undesirable.
(2) At least 380 sessions must be held at a school during any school year save that nothing in this paragraph is to require a nursery class to meet for that number of sessions.
(3) Where at any time a school is prevented from meeting for one or more sessions for which it was intended that it should meet, and it is not reasonably practicable for arrangements to be made for it to meet at an alternative time for those sessions, the school is to be treated for the purposes of paragraph (2) as if it had met as intended.
(4) Subject to paragraph (5), on every day on which a nursery school or nursery class meets there must be provided at least three hours of suitable activities.
(5) On a day on which a pupil -
(6) In a school which meets on six days a week there may on two of those days be only a single session.
5.
- (1) Where a school session in the 2003 - 2004 school year is devoted wholly or mainly to the provision to teachers employed at that school of training to which this paragraph applies, that session is to be regarded for the purposes of regulation 4 as a session on which that school has met.
(2) Where a school session in the 2004 - 2005 school year is devoted wholly or mainly to the provision to teachers employed at that school of training to which this paragraph applies, that session is to be regarded for the purposes of regulation 4 as a session on which that school has met.
(3) Where a school session in the 2005 - 2006 school year is devoted wholly or mainly to the provision to teachers employed at that school of training to which this paragraph applies, that session is to be regarded for the purposes of regulation 4 as a session on which that school has met.
(4) Paragraph (1) is only to apply in relation to sessions on or after 1st January 2004 and none of paragraphs (1), (2) and (3) is to have effect in relation to more than two school sessions in each school year.
(5) Paragraph (1) applies to training relating to the development of arrangements for entry of pupils into the first key stage and transition between the key stages and for the planning and delivery of the curriculum.
Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998[7].
D. Elis-Thomas
The Presiding Officer of the National Assembly
9th December 2003
[2] The functions of the Secretary of State were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672).back
[3] S.I. 2000/1323 (W.101).back
[4] S.I. 2001/2499 (W.202).back
[6] S.I. 2002/1556 (W.153).back
| © Crown copyright 2003 | Prepared 16 December 2003 |
