During the release of the Form One placement exercise on Monday, January 16, Education Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu gave a breakdown of the school opening dates for all students transitioning to either Junior Secondary School or Form One.
Speaking at Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD), CS Machogu affirmed that the school calendar will return to normalcy with Term One commencing on Monday, January 23, and running for 13 weeks till April 23, 2023.
This will be inclusive of a three-day half-term break between March 23, 2023, and March 26, 2023.
In addition, the reporting period for Form One Students will be from February 6 to February 13, 2023. According to the Education CS, the one-week period will allow the students to fully settle in and transition from primary to secondary.
Further, the learners joining Grade 7 shall report to their respective Junior Secondary Schools on January 30, 2023.
Machogu highlighted that all students who sat for the Kenya Primary School Education Assessment (KPSEA) would transit to Grade 7 as part of the government's commitment to a 100 percent transition policy.
He, however, noted that a preliminary curriculum would be instituted before the complete policy is released by the Presidential taskforce.
"All 1.2 million pupils who sat for 2022 KPSEA will transition to grade 7. We have issued a preliminary curriculum to be used as we open schools, but the final one will be in the Presidential Taskforce Report which will be released in March," he noted.
The CS also pointed out that the results of Grade 6 exams will be available on the Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) portal from Tuesday, January 17.
"I am happy to announce that the exercise has already been completed and that schools will be able to access the reports through the KNEC portal from tomorrow, Tuesday 17," he declared.
He also directed KNEC to work in tandem with the KICD and the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) in a bid to interpret the report for both parents and learners.
"I order the Council to hold discussions with TSC and KICD on the national KPSEA report with a view of providing feedback on CBC that can reform ongoing curriculum reviews," Machogu reiterated.
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