The Education (National Curriculum) (Attainment Targets and Programme of Study in Design and Technology in respect of the Third Key Stage) (England) Order 2008

• Citation: S.I. 2008/1754
• Sections: 5

Section 1 Citation, commencement and application

(1) This Order may be cited as the Education (National Curriculum) (Attainment Targets and Programme of Study in Design and Technology in respect of the Third Key Stage) (England) Order 2008 and comes into force on 1st August 2008.

(2) This Order applies in relation to England only.

Section 2 Interpretation

In this Order—

(a) “the Key Stage 3 Document” means the document published by the Authority on 30th August 2007 entitled “Design and technology Programme of study: key stage 3”;

(b) “level 1 of the National Curriculum levels of attainment” is to be interpreted in accordance with the description of performance at level 1 in the booklet published by the Stationery Office entitled “Design and Technology, The National Curriculum for England, Key stages 1-3”, ISBN 0113700741, as revised in 2004; and

(c) “special educational needs” is to be interpreted in accordance with section 312 of the Education Act 1996 .

Section 3 Specification of attainment targets and programmes of study

Subject to article 5(2)(b), in relation to any pupil who starts in the third key stage on or after 1st August 2008, it is directed that the provisions relating to attainment targets and the programme of study set out in the Key Stage 3 Document have effect for the purposes of specifying attainment targets and the programme of study for the third key stage in relation to Design and Technology.

Section 4 Specification of attainment targets and programmes of study

For the purposes of this Order, the examples and other passages printed in grey text or within square brackets in the Key Stage 3 Document (which serve to illustrate the programme of study described therein or relate to background information) do not form part of the provisions relating to attainment targets and the programme of study referred to in article 3.

Section 5 Revocation and savings

(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the Education (National Curriculum) (Attainment Targets and Programmes of Study in Design and Technology in respect of the First, Second and Third Key Stages) (England) (No 2) Order 2004 is revoked in so far as it has effect for the purposes of specifying attainment targets and the programme of study for the third key stage in relation to Design and Technology.

(2) The Education (National Curriculum) (Attainment Targets and Programmes of Study in Design and Technology in respect of the First, Second and Third Key Stages) (England) (No 2) Order 2004 continues to have effect—

(a) in relation to any pupil who started in the third key stage before 1st August 2008, for the purposes of specifying attainment targets and the programme of study for the third key stage in relation to Design and Technology; and

(b) in relation to any pupil who starts in the third key stage on or after 1st August 2008, has special educational needs and is working below level 1 of the National Curriculum levels of attainment, for the purposes of specifying attainment targets for the third key stage in relation to Design and Technology.