7 to 9 key stage 4 - ages 14 to 16, year groups 10 and 11.
Schools have some discretion over when to start teaching the key stage programmes of study.
The law requires that they should be taught during the key stage, not that they be introduced at a particular time. English and ICT are statutory at key stages 1 to 4. Mathematics, science, design and technology and PE are statutory at key stages 1 to 3 and will be statutory at key stage 4 from August 2001. History, geography, art and design and music are statutory at key stages 1 to 3. MFL is statutory at key stage 3 and will be statutory at key stage 4 from August 2001.