attendance recordmeans the record of a pupil’s school attendance contained in the Attendance Register kept in accordance with section 80 of the Education Act 1944 and the Pupils' Registration Regulations 1956;
child abuseincludes physical (other than accidental) injury to, and physical and emotional neglect, ill-treatment or sexual abuse of, a child.
classhas the meaning assigned to it by section 3(6) of the Act;
GCSEmeans General Certificate of Secondary Education;
inaccuratemeans inaccurate or misleading as to any matter of fact.”
key stagemeans any of the periods set out in paragraphs (a) to (d) respectively of section 3(3) of the Act, and a reference to the first, second, third or fourth key stage is a reference to the periods set out respectively in the said paragraphs (a) to (d);
levelsmeans the levels of attainment set out in any document of a kind referred to in section 4(4) of the Act the provisions of which have effect, or (as the case may be) have effect as amended, by virtue of any Order made under section 4(2)(a) or (b) of the Act and, unless the context otherwise requires, means such levels determined in accordance with the statutory arrangements;
maintained schoolhas the meaning assigned to it by section 25(1) of the Act;
profile componentmeans any grouping of attainment targets for the purposes of the statutory arrangements;
qualificationmeans a qualification for the time being approved pursuant to section 5 of the Act;
school daymeans a day on which the school meets;
the Actmeans the Education Reform Act 1988;
the relevant datameans the levels of attainment achieved by the pupil in each attainment target in history, geography, technology and Welsh Second Language in respect of which the pupil has been assessed in accordance with the statutory arrangements.
the statutory arrangementsmeans assessment arrangements specified by order made under section 4(2)(c) of the Act.