Ministry of Education Releases 2023 School Calendar.

The Ministry of Education, on Friday, January 6, released a 47-week education calendar for primary and secondary school students. 

In a statement to the press, the ministry noted that schools will revert to normal academic programmes, which will officially kick off on January 23, 2023. 

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. 

Term two will then commence on May 8, 2023, during for thirteen weeks before students proceed on a short break. 

Half-term's break for the second session was scheduled for June 29, 2023, stretching for three days to July 2, 2023. 

The rest of second term will proceed for two weeks, and students expected to take holiday break on August 8, 2023, up to August 28, 2023. 

Third term will run for a period of ten weeks, during when Kenya Certificate for Primary Education candidates will sit their exams between November 6, 2023, to November 9, 2023. 

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 Thursday, January 5, National Parents Association (NPA) chairperson Silas Obuhatsa asked the government to consider postponing the normal school calendar resumption.

Obuhatsa asked the Ministry of Education to give Grade Six students time to transition to Junior Secondary Schools (JSS). 

“The government has the right to postpone schools reopening for one or two months to have these structures in place before learning can resume," he noted.