Primary colleges within the counattempt are anticipated to reopen for the graduation of the 2024/2025 educational yr as we speak.
This may formally restore the tutorial calendar for fundamental college to September 4 years after it was disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
A spokesperson on the Ghana Training Service (GES) stated that the choice was to normalise the tutorial calendar and guarantee clean operationalisation of the calendar.
The 2024/2025 calendar launched by the GES revealed that kindergarten (KG), major and junior highschool (JHS) pupils would spend a complete of 15 weeks for the primary time period, which formally begins as we speak.
The time period, nonetheless, would finish on December 18, 2024, with colleges vacating on December 19, 2024. Moreover, the second time period of the tutorial yr would start on January 7, 2025, and shut on April 16, 2025.
College students and pupils would then go on trip on Thursday, April 17, 2025, having spent one other 15 weeks at school.
Additionally, colleges would once more reopen for the third time period on Tuesday, Might 6, 2025, and pupils would keep at school till July 24, 2025, when the tutorial calendar or yr ends.
In all, the schoolchildren are anticipated to spend 12 weeks within the third time period.
From 2021 to 2022, the tutorial calendar for fundamental and senior excessive colleges was rescheduled for January to December after colleges have been closed in March 2020 as a part of measures to manage the COVID-19 pandemic.