2020 No. 848 (W. 187)
The Education (School Day and School Year) (Wales) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020
Made
Laid before Senedd Cymru
Coming into force
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The title of these Regulations is the Education (School Day and School Year) (Wales) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020 and they come into force on 1 September 2020.
Amendment of the Education (School Day and School Year) (Wales) Regulations 2003
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The Education (School Day and School Year) (Wales) Regulations 20033 are amended as follows.
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In regulation 4(2), at the beginning insert “Subject to paragraph (2A),”.
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After regulation 4(2) insert—
2A
At least 370 sessions must be held at a school listed in paragraph (2B) during the school year 2020-2021 save that nothing in this paragraph is to require a nursery class at those schools to meet for that number of sessions.
2B
All maintained schools in the following local authority areas—
i
Conwy;
ii
Pembrokeshire except for Ysgol y Preseli, Crymych, Pembrokeshire, SA41 3QH;
iii
Powys.
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After regulation 5 insert—
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This paragraph applies to any school session falling within the school year 2020-2021 which is devoted (wholly or mainly) to the preparation of schools and planning by teachers following the reduction in operations due to circumstances relating to the incidence or transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).
2
Paragraph (1) is to have effect in relation to no more than four school sessions in the first two weeks of the first term of that school year.
3
Where paragraph (1) applies, that session is to be regarded for the purposes of regulation 4 as a session on which the school has met.
(This note is not part of the Regulations)