ILOILO City – The Department of Education (DepEd) Region 6 is ready to implement the amended school calendar and activities for School Year (SY) 2023-2024.
From the original June 14, 2024, the end-of-school-year was set two weeks earlier.
Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte-Carpio issued Department Order No. 003 S. of 2024 on Feb. 19 declaring May 31, 2024 as the new end-of-school-year of the current SY 2023-2024.
The end-of-school-year rites will be on May 29 to 31 2024. However, in the event of exceptional circumstances in schools, they are allowed to conduct rites on June 1 upon consultation with teachers and parents.
The school year break this year will be from June 1 to July 26, 2024.
The department order also declared the start of SY 2024-2025 to be on Monday, July 29, 2024, and the end on Friday, May 16, 2025.
“Sa subong nga school year 2023-2024, nag-start kita sang August 29 but for the next school year maga-start on July 29… One month ahead sa aton sini nga school calendar especially sa pag-start sang aton school year,” Hernani Escullar Jr., information officer of DepEd-6, said in an interview with Panay News.
He said it would take years to return to pre-pandemic school year that starts in June and ends on March.
“It will really take a gradual shift agud sini nga ma-reach ining pre-pandemic school year but we know ang aton central office is open sa suggestion coming from our stakeholders and ini sia one of the step nga ginahimu sang central office to ensure nga ang well-being sang aton nga learners ang aton gid mahatag sa ila,” he said.
With the shorten SY 2023-2024, Escullar ensured that it would not affect the studies of learners.
All schools, he said, are guided with all the plans and activities, especially those stated in the Division Education Development Plan (DEDP) and Schools Improvement Plan (SIP) for schools prepare by schools division offices (SDOs).
“May learning materials and modules nga puede ma-provide sa learners just to ensure that all competencies that are required nga makuha nila for this school year ang ma-provide naton sa ila,” Escullar stressed.
But, if problems or hardships arise, the schools through their heads could ask technical help from the SDO to ensure compliance of the DepEd order.
“It’s going to be a team effort diri sa Region 6 agud sini nga we ensure that the quality basic education is provided in each and every champion learners in the region,” added Escullar.
Here are the important salient points under DepEd No. 003, Series of 2024 with the subject “Amendment to DepEd Order No. 022, Series of 2023 or Implementing Guidelines on the School Calendar and Activities for the School Year 2023-2024”:
* The adjusted date of the end-of-school-year shall be May 31,2024, Friday.
* The end-of-school-year break shall be from June 1 to July 26, 2024.
* The end-of-school-year rites shall be conducted from May 29 to May 31, 2024. However, under exceptional circumstances, the schools may conduct the end-of-school-year rites on June 1, 2024, Saturday, only upon consultation with teachers and parents.
* Brigada Eskwela shall be conducted from July 22, Monday, to July 27, 2024, Saturday.
* SY 2024-2025 shall start on July 29, 2024, Monday, and end on May 16, 2025, Friday.
* No voluntary or mandatory tasks or activities shall be assigned to teachers from June 1 to 30, 2024.
The following are additional provisions of the school calendar to be implemented in the SY 2023-2024:
* National Learning Camp shall continue to be implemented following DepEd Order No. 14, Series of 2023. However, due to the adjustment of the school calendar for SY 2023-2024, activities in the consolidation and intervention camps shall be conducted within three weeks instead of five weeks during school year 2023-2024 EOSY break from July 1 to 19, 2024. Services of teachers in the NLC shall be voluntary.
Centrally Managed Co-Curricular Activities
* Palarong Pambansa – July 6 to 17, 2024
* National Festival of Talents – July 9 to 13, 2024
* National Schools Press Conference – July 9 to July 13, 2024
* Learner’s Convergence – July 9 to 15, 2024
Escullar clarified these amendments on SY 2023-2024 are applicable to all public schools, while the private schools have their respective school year calendar./PN
