Education Minister Ong Ye Kung announced that the mid-year holidays will start 5 May 2020. This follows the earlier announcement that the Circuit Breaker period will be extended by another four weeks till 1 June 2020.
In a Facebook post, Minister Ong acknowledged that teachers, students and parents have been making considerable efforts to make the current home-based learning arrangements work. However, he also shared that it cannot be a “prolonged substitute for school.”
Mid-Year Holidays Start on 5 May
Therefore, he announced that the Ministry of Education will be bringing forward the four-week mid-year holidays to start from Tuesday, 5 May 2020. It will then cover the entire circuit breaker period.
As a result, Term 3 would start in 2 June 2020. Hopefully, this would allow students and teachers to resume classes and lessons, with some level of normalcy. However, this is dependent on the national COVID-19 situation at that point in time.
The adjustments to the mid-year holidays apply to all MOE Kindergartens, primary, secondary and Pre-University students, including students from Special Education (SPED) schools.
Term 3: 7 weeks, 1-week break, 6 weeks
However, as this would mean that Term 3 would be very long, it would then be broken up into two parts. There will be seven weeks of school, followed by a one-week break from 20 to 26 July 2020, and then a further six weeks to complete Term 3.
As a result of the reduced curriculum time, Minster Ong also announced that certain topics for the national examinations would be non-examinable, even though they will still be taught. Known as Common Last Topics (CLT), these include pie charts and volume for PSLE Maths and “Interactions within the Environment” for PSLE Science.
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Read Minister Ong’s full Facebook post below.
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