The 2023/2024 school calendar for the Sardinia Region has been approved.
Lessons will begin on 14 September for all schools of all levels in Sardinia and, limited to primary and lower and lower secondary schools, will end on 7 June 2024.
In view of the specificity of the educational service offered, kindergartens will extend their educational activities to 29 June 2024.
The Assessor of Public Education, Andrea Biancareddu recalls that the determination of the calendar of national holidays and state exams is the responsibility of the State, therefore it is intended to provide for the formulation of the regional school calendar for the 2023/2024 school year, in order to allow the didactic planning of the autonomous scholastic institutions, the preparation of the services of competence of the Local Authorities and the organization of family life. In addition, individual educational institutions, including infant schools, for justified needs and subject to agreement with the territorial bodies competent to ensure services for the right to study, may decide to bring forward the start date of lessons.
Establish the following time-outs for state-mandated national holidays. Here's when there will be no class : Every Sunday, December 8 - Immaculate Conception; December 25 – Christmas; December 26 - Boxing Day; January 1st – New Year's Eve; January 6 – Epiphany; Monday after Easter; May 1st - Labor Day; June 2 - National Day of the Republic; feast of the Patron Saint, according to current legislation. To these are added the following suspensions: 2 November; commemoration of the dead; Christmas holidays from 23rd to 31st December and from 2nd to 5th January; carnival holidays. The Tuesday before the start of the Lenten period; Easter holidays, with 3 days preceding Easter Sunday and the Tuesday immediately following Easter Monday. On April 28, Sa Die de sa Sardigna. Then also 2 days available to the Institute Council, which become 1 in the event that the Feast of the Patron Saint of the relevant Municipality falls within the school period.
Having acknowledged that the lesson days that appear in the regional school calendar are divided as follows: - September 2023: 15 days - October 2023: 26 days - November 2023: 24 days - December 2023: 18 days - January 2024: 21 days - February 2024 : days: 24 - March 2024: 23 days - April 2024: 22 days - May 2024: 26 days - June 2024: 6 days for a total of 205 days (204 days if the feast of the patron saint falls within the school period).
Scholastic institutions, in compliance with the annual number of hours foreseen for the individual disciplines and compulsory activities, can arrange for any and appropriate adjustments to the school calendar - duly motivated and approved by the school or training institute and promptly communicated to families within the start of lessons. For needs deriving from the Training Offer Plan.
If the adaptation of the calendar leads to suspension of lessons, within the maximum limit of three days per year, a prior agreement is required with the local authorities competent to ensure services for the right to study. For needs related to specificities of the educational institution determined by regulatory provisions of a particular nature.
"The school calendar - underlines the councilor for public education, Andrea Biancareddu - is configured as a territorial planning tool, in consideration of the repercussions that the established time frames have on the organization of pupils' family life as well as services connected to educational activities, also taking into account the commitment made by the competent local authorities. I also remind you that, recognizing the value of school autonomy which, in cooperation with the local authorities providing services connected to teaching activities, can better respond to both the educational and training purposes and the need for flexibility in the training offer, it could make changes to the school calendar with any adjustments that may concern the start date of lessons, a different articulation of the Christmas and Easter holidays as well as the suspension, during the school year, of educational or teaching activities if deemed functional to the best performance of the training offer" .
