Get the official 2020/2021 terms dates for Primary schools, High or Secondary schools and colleges in Kenya. That is closing and opening terms dates timetable (updated).
Ministry of education 2021 Term Dates for Schools in Kenya
The ministry of education has released the official revised 2020/2021 term dates for schools. In the new calendar, only Grade 4, Class 8 and form four students are required to report to school by October 2020 as shown below.
2021 Pre-primary and primary schools terms dates
- Term 1: Opening dates (6th January 2020), Closing Dates (10th April 2020) (Term 1, will run for 14 weeks) (First term Half-term starts on February 17th to 21st)
- Term 2: New Opening dates (12 October 2020) and Closing Dates (23rd December 2020) (11 weeks) (second term holiday of one week will begin on 24th December 2020 and end on 1st January 2021)
- Term 3: New Opening dates (4th January 2021), Closing Dates (19th March 2021) (11 weeks)
- 2021 KCPE: KCPE begins on 22 March 2021 and ends on 24th March 2021
2021 Secondary schools term dates (opening and closing)
- Term 1: Opening dates (6th January 2020), Closing Dates (10th April 2020) (Term 1, will run for 14 weeks) (First term Half-term starts on February 17th to 21st)
- Term 2: New Opening dates (12 October 2020), Closing Dates (23rd December 2020) (11 weeks) (second term holiday of one week will begin on 24th December 2020 and end on 1st January 2021)
- Term 3: New Opening dates (4th January 2021), Closing Dates (19th March 2021) (11 weeks)
- 2021 KCSE: KCSE begins on 25th March 2021 and ends on 21st April 2021
Opening Dates for other remaining classes
All other classes (pp1, pp2, grade 1, 2, 3, class 5, 6, 7 and form 2 and 3) that had not re-opened on October will re-open on 4th January 2021 for second term and close on 9th march 2021. They will then proceed for a 7 weeks holiday to allow KCPE and KCSE candidates do their national examinations.
2021 School calendar highlight
- Schools will not have mid break or half term
- KCSE and KCPE 2020 exams have been pushed to 2021
- There will only be a break of one week at the end of term 2.
School Holidays Revision Past papers
Students who will be on holiday might be interested in KCSE and KCPE past papers with answers. You can download them from muthurwa.com in pdf (soft copy): Page KCSE revision Papers and KCPE revision Papers.
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Fantastic
Thanks CS Magoha
I love that
Why the security guard are chasing the student away are they the one who decide for their curriculum but big question is when is the real dates for all school opening we are tired of seeing them being in the house Ama ni venye the guards hawana habari?
good question
love this
nice job.
Cool cs nice work 👍
Let the literate people lead our students to where they completed! The spirit of kenya!
When schools will be closed in skeldon and y skeldon have Saturday school
I love this
Yeaap be happy under the kenyan g’vt. Love it too
that is wonderful job 4 our cs magoha
I love that
That’s right not allowed to change anything in that plz
What about the others….will they use the same fomat over the coming years
The ministry of education is indeed doing a wonderful job l appreciate
Me too
Kindly supply me with term dates for Vocational Training Centres for the year 2020
I also need to know
Is there january intake for teacher’s training collages?
When will be form to student do their examination cancel