Education Ministry releases amended 2020 school academic calendar

PETALING JAYA: The mid-semester and year-end school holidays have been shortened.

The Education Ministry said the mid-semester school holidays for Semester Two will now be from Aug 20 to 24 while the year-end school holidays will be from Dec 18 to 31, depending on the state.

This is a four-day reduction for the mid-semester break from nine days to five days.

The year-end holidays for schools in Johor, Kedah, Kelantan and Terengganu have been reduced from 42 days to 14 days, while schools in Melaka, Negri Sembilan, Pahang, Perak, Perlis, Penang, Sabah,

Sarawak, Selangor, Kuala Lumpur, Labuan and Putrajaya will have a 13-day holiday, the ministry said in a statement on Tuesday (June 23).

“The ministry amended the 2020 School Academic Calendar to assist schools in planning the students' teaching and learning process, ” it said.

The total number of physically being in school days is now 168 for all schools, it added.

Form Five and Form Six students spent at least 55 days learning from home throughout the movement control order (MCO), conditional MCO and recovery MCO period, it continued.

As for the other school students, the ministry said the total number of days spent learning from home will depend on when they will return to school.

The date has yet to be announced.

The full academic calendar can be found at https://drive.google.com/file/d/17tI2rerwqcua2wEtvfcfIQLYjQbSR1BO/view