Statutory Instruments
2011 No. 2751
Education, England
The Education (National Curriculum) (Specified Purpose) (England) Order 2011
Made
16th November 2011
Laid before Parliament
21st November 2011
Coming into force
12th December 2011
The Secretary of State for Education makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 76(2)(b) of the Education Act 2002( 1 ):
Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Education (National Curriculum) (Specified Purpose) (England) Order 2011 and comes into force on 12th December 2011.
Specified purpose of assessment arrangements
2. The purpose of ascertaining the extent to which pupils in the first key stage understand the correspondence between graphemes and phonemes in English is specified for the purposes of section 76(2)(b) of the Education Act 2002.
Nick Gibb
Minister of State
Department for Education
16th November 2011
2002 c.32 ; section 76(2) was inserted by paragraph 32(1) and (5) of Schedule 12 to the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (c.22) . For the meaning of “assessment arrangements” see section 76(1) of the Education Act 2002 and see section 82(1)(a) of that Act as to the first key stage.