The Education (National Curriculum) (Attainment Targets and Programmes of Study in Modern Foreign Languages) Order 1991

• Citation: S.I. 1991/2563
• Sections: 7

Section 1 Citation, commencement, application and interpretation

(1) This Order may be cited as the Education (National Curriculum) (Attainment Targets and Programmes of Study in Modern Foreign Languages) Order 1991.

(2) This article shall come into force on 1st August 1992 and all other provisions of this Order shall come into force in accordance with articles 2 and 3 below.

(3) This Order applies in relation to maintained schools in England and Wales only.

(4) In this Order–

“the Document” means the document published by Her Majesty’s Stationery Office entitled “Modern Foreign Languages in the National Curriculum” ;

references to the third and fourth key stages are references to the periods set out in paragraphs (c) and (d) respectively of section 3(3) of the Education Reform Act 1988; and

references to levels of attainment are references to the levels set out in the Document in relation to each attainment target.

Section 2 Citation, commencement, application and interpretation

The provisions of this Order relating to the third key stage shall come into force–

(a) on 1st August 1992 in respect of pupils in the first year of that key stage;

(b) on 1st August 1993 in respect of pupils in the second year of that key stage; and

(c) on 1st August 1994 in respect of all other pupils.

Section 3 Citation, commencement, application and interpretation

The provisions of this Order relating to the fourth key stage shall come into force–

(a) on 1st August 1995 in respect of pupils in the first year of that key stage; and

(b) on 1st August 1996 in respect of all other pupils.

Section 4 Specification of attainment targets and programmes of study

It is hereby directed that the provisions relating to attainment targets and programmes of study set out in the Document shall have effect as provided in articles 5 to 7 below for the purpose of specifying in relation to modern foreign languages–

(a) attainment targets; and

(b) programmes of study.

Section 5 Specification of attainment targets and programmes of study

Attainment targets 1–4 set out in the Document are specified in relation to the third and fourth key stages, the levels applicable (being those appropriate to the different abilities and maturities of the pupils being taught) being, for each such key stage, levels 1–10.

Section 6 Specification of attainment targets and programmes of study

(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, the programmes of study set out in the Document and described in column (2) of the Schedule to this Order are specified in relation to the key stages set out beside them in column (1) of the Schedule.

(2) The programme of study for a pupil in the fourth key stage is either that referred to as Model A or that referred to as Model B in the Document and column 2 of the Schedule.

Section 7 Specification of attainment targets and programmes of study

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