{"id":421762,"date":"2020-08-01T17:24:29","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T15:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=421762"},"modified":"2020-08-01T17:24:45","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T15:24:45","slug":"heres-the-new-school-calendar-and-when-you-can-expect-matric-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/421762\/heres-the-new-school-calendar-and-when-you-can-expect-matric-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s the new school calendar &#8211; and when you can expect the 2020 matric results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Basic Education has published the new calendar for the rest of the 2020 school year, which has been structured so that the academic year won&#8217;t push into 2021.<\/p>\n<p>This follows a decision by government to shut schools for a period of 4 weeks, set to re-open on 24 August.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of the new calendar, there are now 163 actual school days for teachers, and 156 for learners.<\/p>\n<p>The department said that the school year will complete on 15 December 2020 for grades R to 11, and will not be carried over into 2021.<\/p>\n<p>A break will be required to separate the third and fourth terms, so a small holiday will take place between 26 and 30 October.<\/p>\n<p>These are the remaining terms:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Term 3<\/strong>: 24 August &#8211; 23 October<\/li>\n<li><strong>Term 4:<\/strong> 2 November &#8211; 15 December<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Matric exams will also be concluded by 15 December, the department said, with marking expected to be done by 22 January 2021, and the results released on 23 February 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The 2021 school year will start on 25 January for teachers, and few days later for learners.<\/p>\n<p>You see the new calendar below:<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/New-School-Calendar-August.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-421766\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/New-School-Calendar-August.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1198\" height=\"715\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/New-School-Calendar-August.png 1198w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/New-School-Calendar-August-300x179.png 300w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/New-School-Calendar-August-1024x611.png 1024w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/New-School-Calendar-August-768x458.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1198px) 100vw, 1198px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/420163\/confusion-around-the-closing-of-south-africas-schools\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Confusion around the closing of South Africa\u2019s schools<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Basic Education has published the new calendar for the rest of the 2020 school year, which has been structured so that the academic year won&#8217;t push into 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":407215,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-421762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421762"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":421770,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421762\/revisions\/421770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}