Students to Enjoy a 10-Week Holiday as Schools Reopen on January 8
According to the term dates published by the Ministry of Education on Friday, students in primary, secondary, and teacher training colleges will enjoy a 10-week break before classes resume early next year.
Schools are scheduled to close on October 27, 2023, in preparation for national examinations, and the ministry has now announced that the first term will resume on January 8, 2024.
This means that students will be at home for 72 days, a significant improvement over their two-week holiday at the end of Terms I and II.
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The 2024 academic calendar will also mark the first time since the pandemic of 2020 that schools will adhere to the regular calendar. This academic year began on January 23, 2023, following the conclusion of national examinations in late December.
To make up for the time lost during the lockdown of 2020, the school years 2021 and 2022 contained four school terms instead of the usual three.
From January 8 to April 5, 2024, term I will last 13 weeks. The April vacation will continue for three years until April 26, 2024.
The 14-week second term will begin on April 29 and end on August 2, 2024, followed by a three-week break until August 26, 2024, when the final school term of the year will begin.
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The nine-week term will conclude on October 25, 2024, to make way for national examinations. Each of Terms I and II will have a three-day midterm vacation.
Next year, there will be no Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) examinations, and on November 2, 2023, the last 8-4-4 will graduate from primary school. Next year, the students will again take advantage of the 10-week year-end break.
This year, the KCPE examinations and the Kenya Primary School Education Assessment for Grade 6 students will begin on October 30, 2023. They’ll conclude on November 2, 2023.
Candidates for the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education will begin their examinations on November 3, 2023, and conclude on November 24, 2023. The exams will be graded from November 27 to December 15, 2023.
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Students to Enjoy a 10-Week Holiday as Schools Reopen on January 8
