KNOW THE ACADEMIC CALENDAR 2024: The Ministry of Education has released the revised and final 2024 calendar for pre-primary, primary, and secondary schools as well as teachers’ training colleges.

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The pre-primary, primary, and secondary schools will open for the first term on January 8, 2024 and close on April 5, 2024 after 13 weeks of learning.

In between, however, they will have a three-day half term break from February 29 to March 3, before a three-week holiday at the end of the term from April 8-26.

Term two will run for 14 weeks, commencing on April 29 and ending on August 2, with half term set for June 20-23.

The learners will afterwards go on holiday for another three weeks beginning August 5-25.

The final term of the year will last 9 weeks from August 26 to October 25, paving way for the Kenya Primary School Education Assessment (KPSEA) Kenya Intermediate Level Education Assessment (KILEA) examinations from October 28-31.

The Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) exams will afterwards run from November 4-22, amid the long December holiday that will run from October 28 to January 3, 2025.

The teachers’ training colleges, on the other hand, will open for term one from January 8 to April 5, and thereafter head on holidays from April 8-26.

Term two will open on April 29 and go until August 2, with the holidays thereafter scheduled for August 5-30.

The final term will go for 11 weeks from August 26 to November 8, before the long December holidays set for November 11 to January 3, 2025.

Revised and Final 2024 School Term Dates and Academic Calendar
Revised and Final 2024 School Term Dates and Academic Calendar

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2022 Term Dates

1. *Term One of 2022.*
✅ Starts on _25th April to 1st July, 2022_.
✅Has 10 weeks.
✅All pupils will transit to the _next class, level or grade_.

This is *how pupils* will transit:-
✅Class Eight – Form One.
✅Class Seven – Class Eight.
✅Class Six – Class Seven.
✅Grade Five – Grade Six.
✅Grade Four – Grade Five.
✅Grade Three – Grade Four.
✅ Grade Two – Grade Three.
✅ Grade One – Grade Two.
✅ PP2 – Grade One.
✅ PP1 – PP2.
✅ Play School- PP1.

2. *Term Two of 2022.*
✅ Starts on _11th July to 16th September, 2022_.
✅ Has 10 weeks.

3. *Term Three of 2022.*
✅Starts on _26th September to 25th November, 2022_.
✅Has 9 weeks.

➡️ _Current class *seven* will sit for KCPE from 28th Nov to 1st Dec, 2022._

➡️Current *Grade Five* will sit for *CBC National Assessment* the Kenya Certificate of Basic Education (KCBE).

4. *2023* (Next Year) in a matter of *11 months*, the Academic Calendar will *normalize*

At this time the *transition* will be as follows:-

✅Current *class eight* will be in _Form Two_.
✅Current *class seven* will be in _Form One_.
✅ Current *class six* will be in _class eight_ and sit for *KCPE at the end of the same year*.
✅Current _Grade Five_ will be in Junior Secondary School (Grade Seven.)
✅Current *Grade Four* will be in _Grade Six_ and sit for CBC (KCBE) at the *end of 2023*.
✅Current Grade Three will be in Grade Five.
✅ Current Grade Two will be in Four.
✅Current Grade One will be in Grade Three.
✅Current PP2 will be in Grade Two.
✅Current PP1 will be in Grade One.
✅Current Play School will be in PP2.

➡️Parents with children in the current class *seven* should be aware that by *Jan 2023*(next year) their children will be in *Form One*.

➡️Parents with children in *Grade Five* should be aware that by *Jan 2023* their children will be in *Junior Secondary School*

➡️This breakdown can help you for *planning purposes.*

➡️This will be another year with very *short breaks* for holidays apart from the *April long holiday.*