Government released a revised school timetable showing it will take three years before the academic calendar stabilizes and returns to the status that existed before the Covid-19 pandemic in March last year when all education institutions were closed.
While other classes will study only one term to conclude the 2020 academic year in July, the Ministry of Education has given special consideration to sub-candidate classes of Primary Six, Senior Three and Senior Five who will break off for two weeks on May 21 and return June 7 for a special term to cover the content that could not be studied during the lockdown. Thereafter, they will sit exams for promotion to the candidate classes.
The revised timetable indicates that the 2020 academic year will close on July 24, 2021, with learners of specific classes reporting at different intervals to allow the required spacing between learners and teachers at the school.
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2021 Academic Year
The first term of 2021 academic year will begin on August 9 and the children will study for 12 weeks, breaking off on October 29. The students will then come back on November 15 for the second term and study for another 12 weeks which will spill over into next year and close the term on February 4, 2022. The third term will start on February 21, 2022 and end on May 2, 2022.
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2022 Academic Year
The 2022 academic year will then start on May 16, 2022 and end on August 5, 2022. Students will then report back for second term on August 22, 2022 and break off on November 16, 2022. The third term will start on January 2, 2023 and stop on March 24, 2023.
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Academic Year 2023
For 2023 calendar, April 10, 2023 will be the reopening date for schools for first term which will end on June 30, 2023. Second term will start on July 17, 2023 and end on October 6, 2023. Third term will be shorter compared to the other terms with eight weeks starting from November 23, 2023 and closing on December 22, 2023.
Term | Dates |
Term 1 | 10th April - 30th June 2023 |
Term 2 | 17th July - 6th October 2023 |
Term 3 | 23rd November - 22nd December 2023 |
Here, the Ministry of Education hopes to have recovered the content missed in the 2020 academic year when schools abruptly closed over the coronavirus pandemic.
