UAE School Holidays for 2020 – 2021
Dubai: UAE authorities approved on 14th September the academic calendar for three years, starting with 2020-21. The calendar details start and end of school year, vacation days and other details.
Chaired by Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed, the Ministerial Development Council approved the academic calendar for government and private schools for the next three years. Details below.
Schools are allowed to deviate from the MOE calendar dates, within reason. British Schools in Dubai, for example, align half terms and professional learning days using the KHDA allowance of up to eight professional development days each year. These, combined with an extra week of teaching to that published by MOE, means a core group of UK schools have two half terms.
The current academic year and 2022-23 will be of 188 days for private schools according to the MoE. Children will go to school 186 days in the 2021-2022 school year.
Pupils will return to school a day earlier in the new academic year on August 29 next year and on August 28 in 2022.
For the official UAE holiday dates for 2020-2021, for private schools starting in September, and MoE curriculum schools, look no further than the table below however.
Key Dates
Pupils in private schools will get a three-week winter break that starts on December 13 2020.
The second term will start on January 3, 2021.
Schools will get a two-week spring break from March 28 to April 15 2021 and classes will resume on April 18 2021.
The last day of school for the academic year 2020-21 will be July 1, 2021.
The term dates for 2021-2022 are:
Winter break: December 12 to 30 in 2021
Spring break: March 27 to April 14, 2022
Term dates for 2022-2023 are:
Winter break: December 11, 2021 to January 1, 2023
Spring break: March 26, 2023 to April 13, 2023
The 2020-21 Academic Calendar
| Private Schools in the UAE following an international curricula | Date | Duration of Vacation |
| Beginning of attendance of the Academic body 2020-2021 academic year | 23/08/2020 | |
| Beginning of the Students’ attendance for Winter term | 30/08/2020 | |
| Winter vacation for students | 13/12-31/12/2020 | (3) weeks |
| Resumption of study for Spring term | 03/01/2021 | |
| Spring vacation for students | 28/3/2021-8/4/2021 | Two weeks |
| Resumption of study for Summer term | 11/04/2021 | |
| End of students’ attendance | 01/07/2021 | |
| End of the Academic body attendance | 08/07/2021 | |
| Number of school days | 182 | with examination days |
| Date | Duration of Vacation | |
| Private or Local Schools in the UAE following the MoE curricula | ||
| First Semester | ||
| Beginning of attendance of the Academic body | 23/08/2020 | |
| Beginning of the Students’ attendance | 30/08/2020 | |
| Winter vacation/students | 13/12/2020 -7/1/2021 | (20) working days (4) weeks |
| Winter vacation/ Academic body | 20/12/2020-31/12/2020 | (10) working days /two weeks |
| Second Semester | ||
| Beginning of attendance of the Academic body | 03/01/2021 | |
| Beginning of the Students’ attendance/ Resumption of study | 10/01/2021 | |
| Spring vacation/ Academic body | 28/3/2021- 8/4/2021 or 28/3/2021- 1/4/2021 | (10) working days /two weeks or (5) working days, a week |
| Third Semester | ||
| Beginning of attendance of the Academic body | 04/04/2021 | |
| Beginning of the Students’ attendance/ Resumption of study | 11/04/2021 | |
| End of the Students’ attendance | 01/07/2021 | |
| End of the Academic body attendance | 08/07/2021 | (30) working days (6) weeks |
| Number of school days | 182 | with examination days |
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