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• Regulatory actions and interventions by Ofqual

  5 November 2019

  Details of action taken against CILEx and OCR added to the open actions log.

• Relationships education, relationships and sex education (RSE) and health education: FAQs

  5 November 2019

  Updated information about the introduction of compulsory relationships education and RSE from September 2020.

• Religious education in local-authority-maintained schools

  28 October 2019

  Updated title and added link to 'RE and collective worship in academies and free schools'.

• Apply to have your qualifications regulated

  28 October 2019

  Updated the supporting videos.

• Key stage 2 teacher assessment guidance

  17 October 2019

  Added key stage 2 teacher assessment guidance for 2020.

• Key stage 1 teacher assessment guidance

  17 October 2019

  Attached new key stage 1 teacher assessment guidance for the 2020.

• Statistics: destinations of key stage 4 and 16 to 18 (KS5) students

  17 October 2019

  Added 'Destinations of KS4 and 16 to 18 (KS5) students: 2018'.

• Statistics: GCSEs (key stage 4)

  17 October 2019

  Added 'Key stage 4 performance, 2019 (provisional)'.

• 2020 key stage 2: assessment and reporting arrangements (ARA)

  14 October 2019

• 2020 key stage 1: assessment and reporting arrangements (ARA)

  14 October 2019

• Introduction of T Levels

  7 October 2019

  Updated information following the publication of the T Levels action plan 2019 and the launch of the new T Levels campaign.

• Statistics: key stage 1

  26 September 2019

  Added 'Phonics screening check and key stage 1 assessments: England 2019'.

• Statistics: key stage 2

  5 September 2019

  Added 'National curriculum assessments: key stage 2, 2019 (provisional)' to the collection.

• English Baccalaureate (EBacc)

  20 August 2019

  Removed reference to the Russell Group.

• Sex and relationship education

  25 July 2019

  Added an end date for this guidance and a link to new guidance from 2020.

• National curriculum assessments: practice materials

  9 July 2019

  2019 key stage 2 scaled score conversion tables added

• Personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education

  25 June 2019

  Added information about updated statutory guidance for 2020.

• Phonics screening check: administration

  24 June 2019

  Removed the phonics screening check threshold mark for 2019. We have agreed with Test Development colleagues that this is only being published on the 'Phonics screening check: 2019 materials' page.

• Changes to assessments in primary schools

  14 May 2019

• GCSE new grading scale: factsheets

  8 May 2019

  Updated to reflect the new GCSE qualifications being examined for the first time this summer.

• Notes for readers in the English grammar, punctuation and spelling tests

  29 April 2019

  Updated for the 2019 test cycle. There are no changes from the 2018 guidance.

• 2019 key stage 2: assessment and reporting arrangements (ARA)

  15 October 2018

• 2019 early years foundation stage: assessment and reporting arrangements (ARA)

  15 October 2018

• 2019 key stage 1: assessment and reporting arrangements (ARA)

  15 October 2018

• Changes to teaching of sex and relationship education, and PSHE

  19 July 2018

  Added final outcome.

• Performance tables: technical and vocational qualifications

  20 March 2018

  Added 2020 performance tables: technical and vocational qualifications.

• Functional skills subject content: mathematics

  1 March 2018

  Added missing learning outcomes for level 1: using numbers and the number system.

• Functional skills subject content: English

  27 February 2018

• English and maths functional skills content: equality analysis

  27 February 2018

• Department for Education launches Commonwealth education pack

  2 February 2018

  Added Commonwealth education pack.

• Timeline of changes to GCSEs, AS and A levels

  5 September 2017

  Updated for the new academic year.

• New AS and A levels: requirements and guidance

  25 July 2017

  Updated to include requirements for modern foreign languages (listening, reading, writing)

• Implementing the English Baccalaureate

  19 July 2017

  Added the government response.

• National curriculum assessments: key stage 2 tests

  4 July 2017

  2017 scaled score guidance added.

• National curriculum assessments: key stage 1 tests

  6 June 2017

  2017 scaled score guidance page added.

• Courses and qualifications for 14 to 19 year olds

  15 May 2017

• GCE AS and A level subject content

  3 March 2017

  Added content for languages with smaller cohorts.

• AS and A level subject content for modern foreign languages with smaller cohorts

  3 March 2017

  Added government response.

• National curriculum assessments: guidance for local authorities

  21 October 2016

  Addition of 2017 assessment and reporting arrangements.

• National curriculum assessments: early years foundation stage

  21 October 2016

• Key stage 2: English grammar, punctuation and spelling test framework

  24 March 2016

  Update to reflect the messages in 'Clarification: key stage 1 and 2 teacher assessment and moderation guidance', published 8 March 2016.

• Further GCSE and A level content for teaching from September 2017

  1 March 2016

  Updated the government response to include statistics AS and A level content.

• GCSE and A level reform: geology and politics, PE short course

  1 March 2016

  Added government consultation response.

• GCSE subject content

  1 March 2016

  Added content for sociology and physical education short course.

• Completing GCSE, AS and A level Reform

  15 December 2015

  Updated to reflect further decisions on subjects that will be reformed for first teaching in 2017

• OCR: Undertaking: March 2014

  29 October 2015

  Case closed 7 August 2015.

• OCR: Special conditions: May 2014

  24 August 2015

  Condition A5.7 was revoked on 21 August 2015.

• Key stage 2: mathematics test framework

  9 July 2015

  Amendment to page 10 of the framework – the sub-strand for G5 now includes reference to ‘circles’, not 'co-ordinates'.

• National curriculum assessments: test frameworks

  29 June 2015

  Final test framework documents added to the collection

• Key stage 2: science sampling test framework

  29 June 2015

  Updated framework document added.