Government and Policy

Here Is The Official School Calendar For 2023

BY Getrude Mathayo · January 11, 2023 10:01 am

KEY POINTS

Term one will run for a period of thirteen weeks before students take a three-day half-term break on March 23, 2023. Students will return on March 27, 2023, and continue with their studies up until April 22, 2023, when they will take a holiday break.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Kenya Certificate for Secondary Education (KCSE) candidates will take their exams for a period of three weeks, between November 10, 2023, and December 1, 2023. Kenya Certificate for Secondary Education (KCSE) exam marking will take place between December 4, 2023, and December 22, 2023.

On 6^th January 2023, the Ministry of Education in Kenya released 47 weeks of the 2023 new school calendar for all Pre-Primary schools, primary, and secondary schools, and teachers training colleges.

In the calendar, all learners will open for term one of 2023 on 23/1/2023. The term will last for 13 weeks with the closing date slated for 21/4/2023. The Ministry says the revision of the term dates is in a bid to normalize the school calendar which was disrupted by the covid 19 pandemic.

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“Following the stakeholders’ consultation, the revised term dates were agreed on in order to cover the remaining two terms of the 2020 school calendar and stabilize the school calendar by December 2020.” Reads a circular by the Ministry of Education titled.

Term two will then commence on May 8, 2023, for thirteen weeks before students proceed on a short break. The half-term break for the second session was scheduled for June 29, 2023, stretching for three days to July 2, 2023.

Here is the school calendar:

School Calendar

The rest of the second term will proceed for two weeks, and students are expected to take a holiday break on August 8, 2023, up to August 28, 2023. The third term will run for a period of ten weeks, during which Kenya Certificate for Primary Education candidates will sit their exams between November 6, 2023, to November 9, 2023.