The Ghana Education Service (GES) has released the 2024-2025 academic calendar for Basic Schools. Let’s take a look at the week endings for each term.
Basic Schools Week Endings 2024-2025 Academic Year
Basic Schools First Term (10th September to 18th December, 2024) Week Endings
Week 1: Ending on September 13, 2024
Week 2: Ending on September 20, 2024
Week 3: Ending on September 27, 2024
Week 4: Ending on October 4, 2024
Week 5: Ending on October 11, 2024
Week 6: Ending on October 18, 2024
Week 7: Ending on October 25, 2024
Week 8: Ending on November 1, 2024
Week 9: Ending on November 8, 2024
Week 10: Ending on November 15, 2024
Week 11: Ending on November 22, 2024
Week 12: Ending on November 29, 2024
Week 13: Ending on December 6, 2024
Week 14: Ending on December 13, 2024
Week 15: Ending on December 19, 2024
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Basic Schools Second Term Week Endings (7th January 2025 – 16th April 2025)
Week 1: Ending on January 10, 2025
Week 2: Ending on January 17, 2025
Week 3: Ending on January 24, 2025
Week 4: Ending on January 31, 2025
Week 5: Ending on February 7, 2025
Week 6: Ending on February 14, 2025
Week 7: Ending on February 21, 2025
Week 8: Ending on February 28, 2025
Week 9: Ending on March 7, 2025
Week 10: Ending on March 14, 2025
Week 11: Ending on March 21, 2025
Week 12: Ending on March 28, 2025
Week 13: Ending on April 4, 2025
Week 14: Ending on April 11, 2025
Week 15: Ending on April 16, 2025
Basic Schools Third Term Week Endings (6th May 2025 – 24th July 2025)
Week 1: Ending on May 9, 2025
Week 2: Ending on May 16, 2025
Week 3: Ending on May 23, 2025
Week 4: Ending on May 30, 2025
Week 5: Ending on June 6, 2025
Week 6: Ending on June 13, 2025
Week 7: Ending on June 20, 2025
Week 8: Ending on June 27, 2025
Week 9: Ending on July 4, 2025
Week 10: Ending on July 11, 2025
Week 11: Ending on July 18, 2025
Week 12: Ending on July 24, 2025
The Academic Calendar for Senior High Schools is yet to be released. However, there are plans underway to restore the second cycle calendar to the pre-COVID era.
During 2021 and 2022, schools in Ghana adjusted their academic calendar year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This comes following the closure of educational institutions in Ghana.
However, once schools were suspended in March 2020 in a bid to contain the disease.
However in the year 2023 GES announced that term will return to the original Academic calendar. In a letter signed by the deputy GES, Quality and Access Dr Kwabena Bempah Tandoh and all other regional directors, the New academic year commences for Basic Schools from October 03, 2023. Thus the end term one and the beginning of the 2023/2024 ACADEMIC YEAR.
A number of stakeholders including teachers, parents, and school administrators were pleased with returning to the original schedule. They thought that the return September to July which was prior the COVID period was the best in terms of management of the calendar and activities. They preferred to have the ordinary calendar as opposed to the temporary one which was in operation during the time of the pandemic.
