With the Christmas season and end of year festivities behind us, we turn our focus to the 2025 school calendar for primary and secondary schools as well as other education institutions, as released by Uganda’s Ministry of Education and Sports.
This year, as has been the case in previous years, the 2025 academic calendar for Uganda’s Primary, Secondary Schools and Other Education Institutions indicates a busy year for students and teachers.
According to the 2025 school calendar from the Ministry of Education and Sports, learners and teachers will have a few weeks for holidays and months of study.
The following 2025 academic calendar included key term or semester as well as holiday dates for primary, secondary, technical/farm schools and polytechnics, Uganda Technical Colleges and Uganda Colleges of Commerce, Allied Health Training Institutions, Nursing and Midwifery Training Institutions, Primary Teachers’ Colleges (PTCs), National Teachers’ Colleges (NTCs) and Health Tutors’ Colleges.
PRIMARY, SECONDARY, TECHNICAL/FARM SCHOOLS AND POLYTECHNICS CALENDAR 2025
Term One (first term) begins on Monday, February 03, 2025 to Friday May 02, 2025, lasting 89 days. The first term (term one) holiday will run from May 03, 2025 and end on May 25, 2025, lasting 23 days.
Term Two (Second Term) will begin on Monday, May 26, 2025 and end on Friday, August 22, 2025, also taking 89 days. The holiday will begin on August 23, 2025, and end on September 14, 2025.
Term Three (Third Term) will start on Monday, September 15, 2025 and end on Friday December 05, 2025. The term will be 82 days.
The third term holiday will be 57 days, nearly two months. It will begin on December 06, 2025 and end on February 01, 2026.
The entire calendar year for primary, secondary technical/farm schools and polytechnics will be 260 days long, meaning that pupils and students will be in class for eight and a half months.
The three holidays will last 103 days, meaning learners and teachers will rest from class work for nearly three and a half months.
PROPOSED DATES FOR START OF TERM ONE (FIRST TERM) 2025 FOR SENIOR ONE (S1), AND SENIOR FIVE (S5)
Placement of P7 leavers will happen on January 27-28, 2025. Senior One (S1) students will report for first term of 2025 on February 10, 2025. Placement of S4 leavers will happen on February 6-7, 2025.
Term one reporting for Senior Five (S5) will be on February 24, 2025.
TECHNICAL VOCATIONAL AND FARM OR VETERINARY INSTITUTES
Students will report for first term (term one) on February 03, 2025 and break off on May 02, 2025. First term will last 89 days.
Term Two (second term) will begin on May 26, 2025, and end on August 22, 2025, lasting 89 days. Third Term (term Three) will start on September 15, 2025 and close on December 05, 2025, going for 82 days.
Industrial training will run for six weeks, taking 39 days, beginning on January 5, 2026 until February 13, 2026.
HEALTH TRAINING INSTITUTIONS CALENDAR 2025
For Nursing and Midwifery Training Institutions, the January-June Semester will begin from January 27, 2025 and end on June 27, 2025.
Holidays will run for 19 days, beginning on June 30 and ending on July 18, 2025. The July-December Semester will begin from July 21 and end on December 12, 2025. Holidays will then begin on December 12 and end in January 2025.
For Allied Health Training Institutions, the January-June Semester will run from February 3, 2025 to June 27, 2025. Recess term will begin on June 30 and end on July 18, 2025. Holidays will run from July 21 and ending on August 1, 2025.
The July-December Semester will begin on August 04 and end on December 12, 2025. Recess term will run from December 13, 2025 and end on December 21, 2025.
Holidays will run from December 29 to January 2026.
TEACHER TRAINING COLLEGES – KYAMBOGO UNIVERSITY
Admissions of new students for Diploma Primary Education (DEP) and Diploma Early Childhood Education (DECE) will happen in February 2025.
Orientation or induction of new students will take place in March 2025. School Practice I for DEP and DECE is scheduled for March-April 2025.
End of Year I examinations will be in May 2025. Final School Practice for Year 2 2025 will happen in September – October 2025 while final examinations are scheduled for December 2025.
GUIDELINES FOR TIME, REPORTING
- Teaching and learning should start promptly at the beginning of each school term, and the school terms should not be cut short without prior written permission from the Permanent Secretary,
- School starts at 8:00am and ends at 4:30pm for Primary schools; 8:00am to 12:00pm for pre-primary schools and 8:00am to 2:45pm for post primary (teachers/students contact time).
- All Headteachers of Boarding Schools, especially those in Kampala City Metropolitan area, should ensure that they stagger the starting dates for different classes over the week preceding the official opening and closing dates of the terms. This is intended to mitigate the inconveniences of traffic congestion.
- All school open-days, visitation days and other annual functions during the school term should be set by individual schools and institutions.
- School and institutions should sensitize parents and other stakeholders about the School Calendar.
This is the first school calendar released by Dr Kedrace Turyagyenda as Education Ministry Permanent Secretary. Read more about her journey from a Chemistry Teacher to a top government official Here.
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