Special Term for P6, S3 & S5 students before promotion to candidate classes

Uganda’s Ministry of Education and Sports has confirmed that students in semi-candidate classes of Primary Six (P6), Senior Three (S3) and Senior Five (S5) will have to attend a special term before promotion to candidate classes in August.

S3, S5 and P6 students will return to school on June 07.

These broke off for a short holiday this week.

Their special term will end on July 24.

They will then have another short break before the start of the 2021 academic year on August 09.

“As part of the strategy for recovery of lost learning time, the Ministry included a special term of eight weeks for semi-candidate classes; that is P6, S3 and S5, since they had less time compared to the to the other classes to recover the lost learning time in the respective education cycles,” explained Ministry of Education Permanent Secretary Alex Kakooza in a May 19 circular.

“P6, S3 and S5 reported on March 1 and will break off on May 21. However as explained above, they will report back on June 7 for a special term that runs up to July 24, when they will complete the academic year 2020 and be promoted to the next respective class for the academic year 2021, which starts on August 9.”

PS Kakooza urged school heads to discuss with parents on the issue of fees payment for the eight-week term.

“School administrators are once again urged to work with the parents on flexible fees payments given the short notice and the financial constraints many families are going through,” he said.

“School administrators are reminded that the special is a fraction of the normal school term therefore the fees to be charged for the special term should reflect this fact.”

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