2024 School Calendar: When Schools Will Open, Close & Take Half-Term Breaks
The ministry revealed that the calendar went back to its normal schedule, having been disrupted for two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic
Marvin Chege 
The government through the Ministry of Education has released the 2024 school calendar covering pre-primary, primary, and secondary schools as well as teachers’ training colleges.
The calendar captured in a notice to all County, Sub-County and Regional Directors of Education seen by Viral Tea dated Friday, October 13 revealed that the pre-primary, primary, and secondary schools will open for the first term on January 8, 2024, and close on April 5, 2024, a period of 13 weeks.
In between the first term will be a half-term break from February 29 to March 3, 2024. Schools will then close for the April Holidays from April 8-26, 2023, after which they will resume studies for Term Two.
Education CS Ezekiel Machogu and PS Belio Kipsang. /FILE
Term Two will commence on April 29, 2024 and run until August 2, 2024, a period of 14 weeks. In between the second term will be a half-term break from June 20-23, 2024.
Learners will then proceed for the August Holidays lasting from August 5-23, 2024, a period of three weeks before resuming for the final term of 2024.
Term Three has the shortest period in the calendar, commencing on August 26, 2024, until October 25, 2024, a period of nine weeks. It is worth it to note that there is no half-term break during this period.
Learners will proceed for the December Holidays from October 28, 2024, until January 3, 2025, a period of 10 weeks.
The super-long holidays will pave the way for the examinations period, with the Kenya Primary School Education Assessment (KPSEA) and Kenya Intermediate Level Education Assessment (KILEA) examinations running from October 28-31, 2024.
KPSEA is administered under the Competence Based Curriculum (CBC) as a replacement for the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE).
Following suit will be the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) exams that will run from November 4-22, 2024.
The teachers’ training colleges, on the other hand, will open for term one from January 8, 2024, to April 5, 2024, and thereafter head on holidays from April 8-26, 2024.
Term two will open on April 29, 2024, and go until August 2, 2024, with the holidays thereafter scheduled for August 5-30, 2024.
The final term will go for 11 weeks from August 26 to November 8, before the long December holidays set for November 11, 2024, to January 3, 2025.
In a notice released on Friday, January 6, the ministry revealed that the calendar went back to its normal schedule, having been disrupted for two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the August 9, 2022, general elections.
