Term 3 2023 School Calender for All Learning Institutions
Term 3 2023 School Calender for All Learning Institutions
The ministry of education released the Term 3 2023 School Calender for all Learning institutions which include primary and secondary schools in Kenya.
All the primary learners will opened for term one of 2023 on 23/1/2023. The term lasted for a period of 13 weeks with the closing date on 21/4/2023 across all schools.
Term 3 , 2023 is expected to be the shortest term of the year since learners will hardly spend 2 months in school and close to give room for the start of the national Examinations.
As a result, the term will start from 28th of August are run all the way to 3rd of November 2023. This term is expected to cover a maximum of 10 weeks.
The National examinations KCPE and KCSE will kick off in the month of November 2023.
KCPE examinations will kick of from the 6th of November and end on 9th of November 2023 .
KCSE examinations are expected to start from 11th of November and end on 1st of December 2023.
The marking of the national examinations will take effect from 4th of December and end on 22nd December 2023
The revision of the term dates according to the ministry is in a bid to normalize the school calendar that faced disruption following the covid 19 pandemic in Kenya .
During the education stake-holders’ consultation, a new revised term dates were agreed on in order to cover the remaining two terms of the previous 2020 school calendar .
It was also meant to stabilize school calendar by December 2022.
Note that the term dates below apply to all public and private primary and secondary institutions in the country.
Activity of the term | All schools Opening Dates | All schools Closing Dates | Time /Duration |
Term 1 | 23/1/2023 | 21/4/2023 | 13 weeks |
Half-term Break | 23/3/2023 | 26/3/2023 | 3 days |
Holiday | 22/4/2023 | 7/5/2023 | 2 weeks |
Term 2 | 8/5/2023 | 11/8/2023 | 13 weeks |
Half-term Break | 27/6/2023 | 1/7/2023 | 4 days |
Holiday | 12/8/2023 | 27/8/2023 | 2 weeks |
Term 3 | 28/8/2023 | 3/11/2023 | 10 weeks |
KCPE | 6/11/2023 | 9/11/2023 | 4 days |
KCSE | 10/11/2023 | 1/12/2023 | 3 weeks 1 day |
KCSE MARKING | 4/12/2023 | 22/12/2023 |
Term 3 2023 School Calender for All Learning Institutions