First year pupil Nik Mohamad Iman Rafif Nik Masrur making a face for the camera on the first day of school at Sekolah Kebangsaan Gong Tok Nasek in Terengganu.-Bernama
KUALA LUMPUR: The 2026/2027 school session for all Group A schools in Kedah, Kelantan and Terengganu, involving almost one million students, began smoothly.
Kedah Education Department (JPN) director Abdul Rahim Mat said 345,259 students in 753 primary and secondary schools in the state started the school session.
“School operations throughout Kedah have so far been running smoothly. The main focus of the Kedah JPN this year is to address the problem of student dropouts and absenteeism and to ensure that all students attend school,” he said after visiting Sultan Abdul Hamid College in Alor Setar in conjunction with the first day of school yesterday, Bernama reported.
According to the Kelantan Education Department, a total of 333,206 primary and secondary school students began the school session across the state.
Meanwhile, the deputy secretary-general (Planning and Development) of the Education Ministry, Datuk Wan Hashim Wan Rahim, said SMK Pulau Beluru in Tumpat has become the first comprehensive special education model school (K11) in the state.
“It is an upgrade from the previous K9 category, involving the phased implementation of additional facilities to address overcrowding without the need to build a new school, which takes a long time.
“The ministry is now focusing on constructing additional blocks such as classrooms and support facilities that can be completed within six months to meet current needs, compared to building new schools, which take up to three or four years,” he said.
A total of 256,822 students from 507 schools around the state began attending classes yesterday. — Bernama
In Terengganu, a total of 256,822 students in 507 schools began the school session.
Deputy director-general of Education (School Operations Sector) Zainal Abas said that of the total, 9,528 were preschoolers, 148,886 were primary school pupils in 352 schools, and 107,936 were secondary school students in 155 schools.
“This year marks the first year of implementation of the new preschool curriculum, making preschoolers the first group to go through it,” he said.
“These preschoolers will also be the first cohort to use the new school curriculum when they enter Year One in 2027, in line with the introduction of the curriculum in that year.”
Zainal said the Supplementary Food Programme will also help students who may not have had time to eat breakfast before school.
According to the 2026 Academic Calendar issued by the ministry, the school session for schools in Johor, Melaka, Negri Sembilan, Pahang, Perak, Perlis, Penang, Sabah, Sarawak, Selangor, as well as the Federal Territories of Kuala Lumpur, Labuan and Putrajaya, will begin today.
