School students in Saudi Arabia return to their seats and details of classes for the new academic year

Weather of Arabia - Students have returned to school seats in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for the current academic year 1444/2022, after they spent the past year studying electronically from a distance, as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and by a decision issued by the Saudi Ministry of Education regarding the attendance return to schools in various parts of the Kingdom, Its decision comes in light of the return of life to normal and the adoption of doses and vaccinations to protect everyone against the mutants of the Corona virus, with a focus on the safe return of students and educational staff, and this decision to return includes various school stages, starting from the kindergarten stage, the primary stage, as well as the middle stage, high school.

Details of the three semesters’ working hours in Saudi Arabia

The Saudi Ministry of Education stressed the need to advance the educational sector; This is by adopting a study plan that enhances the prosperity of education and students’ excellence, and provides the appropriate opportunity to present the curriculum with a solid plan. For this reason, the Ministry decided to adopt a three-semester system that starts from the first semester, the second semester, and ends with the third semester, so that these semesters witness the presence study. In all schools in the Kingdom, the classes are distributed to these classes represented by a period of approximately (183 school days), interspersed with many vacations. Here is the number of classes approved in the three-semester system in detail:

1. Number of study weeks for the first semester: 13 weeks.
2. Number of study weeks for the second semester: 13 weeks.
3. Number of weeks of study for the third semester: 13 weeks.
4. The number of vacation days during the academic year 1444/2022: 12 vacations.
5. Number of vacation days during study, including weekend leave: 69 days.
6. Number of vacation days during study, not including weekends: 39 days.
7. The date of the final exams in the three semesters 1444

The dates of the final exams for the semesters have been determined according to what is appropriate to set up the exams, and to measure the extent to which students understand what they have studied in these semesters. Here are the dates for the final exams as follows:

Event Hijri date Gregorian date

• The beginning of the study for students for the first semester 01/02/1444 28/08/2022
• National Day holiday (Wednesday and Thursday) 02/25/1444 9/21/2022
• Extended Weekend 03/19/1444 /10/16/2022
• Extended weekend 04/16/1444 10/11/2022
• Beginning of the first semester vacation 04/30/1444 11/24/2022
• The beginning of the study for students for the second semester 05/10/1444 04/12/2022
• Extended Weekend 5/24/1444 12/18/2022
• Extended Weekend 06/22/1444 01/15/2023
• Foundation Day holiday (Wednesday and Thursday) 08/02/1444 02/22/2023
• Beginning of the second semester leave 10/08/1444 02/03/2023
• The beginning of the study for students for the third semester 08/20/1444 12/03/2023
• Beginning of Eid al-Fitr holiday 09/22/1444 04/13/2023
• The beginning of the study after the Eid Al-Fitr vacation 10/06/1444 26/04/2023
• Extended Weekend 08/11/1444 05/28/2023
• Beginning of the end of the school year vacation 04/12/1444 06/22/2023

Here we bring you to the end of this article; Through which we presented you with the date of return to schools 1444, where students of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia return to school in three periods, starting from the first semester, the second and finally the third, as we have already explained to you.

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