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REVISED 2024 CALENDAR: Key Dates for Senior One Students

Following the release of the 2023 Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE), over 600,000 candidates who passed the national examinations are preparing to join Senior One class as they embark on their secondary education. In this report, The Pearl Times details key dates Senior One students, the incoming class in line with the revised 2024 calendar.

After she released the 2023 PLE results, education minister and first lady Janet Museveni announced selection and reporting dates, setting the stage for students, parents and guardians to scramble for admission places in private and public secondary schools.

Janet Museveni said the selection exercise for Senior One (S1) will happen from Friday-Saturday, February 01-02, 2024.

First Term for the Senior One (S1) class of 2024 will begin on Monday, February 19, 2024.

This means that the selection and reporting dates for Senior One have been revised by one week, from the previously announced dates of January 24-25, 2024 and February 12, 2024, respectively, due to the delayed release of 2023 PLE results, according to a school calendar seen by The Pearl Times.

For other classes, except Senior Five (S5), Term One (first term) will begin on Monday, February 05, 2024.

For all secondary and primary schools, first term will end on Friday May 03, 2024.

You can the full revised 2024 school calendar for Uganda’s New Primary, Secondary Schools and Other Education Institutions HERE.

You can also see the lists of 470 best performing PLE 2023 schools in Western Uganda (Ankole, Kigezi, Tooro & Bunyoro), and Buganda (Central Uganda) Here and There.

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Samuel Kamugisha

Samuel Kamugisha is a Ugandan journalist, editor, translator, language instructor, poet, fiction and non-fiction writer. A Makerere University graduate of Journalism and Communication with a decade-long experience in news reporting, writing and editing, Kamugisha is Editor at The Pearl Times. His other journalistic work was published by The Observer. When he is not doing journalism work -- which is rare -- Kamugisha will be reading or writing a short story or a poem, or caught up in the writer's block. His new children's book 'Friends of Plastics' has been published by Room to Read and Reading Association of Uganda and can be read here: https://literacycloud.org/stories/7887-friends-of-plastic/

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