Here Is The New School Calendar For 2022-2023

By Getrude Mathayo / Published November 11, 2022 | 11:24 am

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On January 23, 2023, schools will resume, and they will end on April 21, 2023. (13 weeks). The period from March 23, 2023, to March 26, 2023, will be a 3-day half-term break.

The Ministry of Education in Kenya has released the 2022-2023 revised new school calendar for all Pre-Primary schools, primary, and secondary schools, and teachers training colleges.

In the new calendar, normalcy has resumed with the first term kicking off on the 23rd day of January 2023. This is a sigh of relief bearing in mind how strenuous the last three academic years have been owing to ripple effects occasioned by the Covid 19 pandemic.

Since the Covid-19 pandemic began in March 2020, the ministry of education has been attempting to make up lost time in order to achieve the deadlines established by the pandemic.

To enable, a return to a regular school schedule in 2022 and 2023, the ministry of education has established a new academic calendar that is compressed.

On January 23, 2023, schools will resume, and they will end on April 21, 2023. (13 weeks). The period from March 23, 2023, to March 26, 2023, will be a 3-day half-term break.

The government is in charge of planning the academic calendar for all primary and secondary schools in Kenya. They do this special task through the ministry of education which is headed by the minister in charge of education.

In the history of the nation, the 2022 academic year will be the shortest and most demanding. When term dates are examined in greater detail, it becomes clear that many stakeholders are in a race against time and the curriculum.

The 2022 academic year has four national exams; the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE), the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE), and the Grade Three and Six exams under the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC).

KCPE has been slated for between November 28 and December 1, while KCSE will take place between December 1 and 23. The Grade Six exam will be sat between November 28-30, with 1.27 million candidates registered to sit the pioneer exam under the new curriculum which will see them join junior secondary schools.

The CBC Grade 6 exam will constitute 40 percent of the total score while the Grade 4, 5, and 6 school-based assessments will make up the remaining 60 percent. The Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) announced it would open a portal from August 15 to August 30 where Grade 6 learners would then select their preferred junior high.