As new term begins, ensure all learners go back to class, are safe

Shoppers flock Kibrose Uniforms Limited, Nairobi to buy uniforms ahead of school reopening. [David Njaaga, Standard]

Schools reopen from today for the third term after a long holiday. Third term will be relatively short - two months - running up to July 16, 2021, when schools close again for 10 days. Learning will then resume on July 26, 2021, for the first term of the new academic calendar for 2022.

These unfamiliar changes in the school calendar that ordinarily begins in January and ends in December, with breaks in-between, were necessitated by the effects of Covid-19, discovered in Kenya in March 2020. For more than 10 months, schools remained closed.