How Will Your Child Transition To Junior Secondary School Under CBC? Magoha Explains

NAIROBI,Kenya, Jul, 6 – The clock is fast ticking amid the transition of thousands of learners under the competency based curriculum (CBD) to junior secondary school (JSS).

A cloud of uncertainty however hangs on parents and other education stakeholders as to how the transition will be executed.

Education Cabinet Secretary Professor George Magoha has now stated that the guidelines on the exercise will be unveiled in the next three weeks.

Amid infrastructural concerns in some schools, Magoha said that only a few primary schools will see the JSS domiciled at.

So far 6,500 classrooms have been constructed amid the transition.

“The only thing we have not pronounced to you is how children will move from Grade Six to Seven. That is being cooked and I can tell you that in the inside of three weeks, we will come out with very

clear systems of how your child will move from Grade Six to Grade Seven,” said Magoha.

During the Kenya Private School Association annual directors conference in Mombasa, Magoha said that the ministry is making the final arrangements ahead of the transition to JSS.

Private schools have now been challenged to set up JSS schools seperately within their institutions in order to assist the process and increase their own capacity to admit learners.

“We have said that in order to maximize on the numbers, there are some primary schools within the same compound as secondary schools. There is still some space in the primary schools to be utilized also but will still be in the secondary school,”  he said.

The transition will kick off in January 2023.

“One thing I know is that come January, our children must prepare to go to school whichever the government takes over. Nobody is saying that CBC will be a smooth ride, the incoming government must also continue spending money,” he said.

Stakeholders in recent months have been differing on whether the JSS should be domiciled in a primary school or secondary school.

School Calendar 2022

From July 2 to 10 learners will break for a week-long holiday and resume studies for second term on July 11.

A mid-term break will then be from August 11 to 14 as the second holiday for learners will be from September 17 to 25,2022.

The third and final term in the academic calendar will then begin on September 26 and end on November 25.

According to KNEC, candidates sitting their Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) exam, will do so from November 28 to December 1, 2022.

Candidates sitting their Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) exam will do so from December 1 to 23,2022.