The Ministry of Education will today (Monday) start an assessment of all primary schools in the country.
This seeks to ascertain how prepared the schools are to accommodate Grade 7 learners who will now be in Junior Secondary.
The assessment will take place between January 9 - 20, adopting a rapid result initiative.
"The approach will involve the Teachers Service Commission, and National Government Administration Officers," the circular reads.
Education stakeholders will coordinate the assessment from the national, regional, county and subcounty levels.
The ministry has directed that all students transit to Grade 7, as both public and private schools will be assessed.
In the 2023 school calendar, Grade 7 learners will be admitted as from January 23.
Grade 7 learners who will remain in primary schools, will still be under their school headteacher.
TSC legal officer Cavin Anyuor said junior secondary school will still be under primary school management.
“As it stands, the administrator will still remain the headteacher of that primary until junior secondary takes off,” he said.
Parents won big after President William Ruto scrapped the national examination that could have been used to determine the transition of Grade 6 learners to Junior Secondary School.
Ruto ordered that learners who sat the Kenya Primary School Education Assessment proceed to junior secondary in the same primary school.
“The Grade 6 KPSEA will not be used for placement in Junior Secondary School," the preliminary report brief issued by State House spokesman Hussein Mohamed said.
"Instead, it will be used as an assessment to monitor learning progress and provide feedback to education sector players on areas that require intervention.”
The directions were issued in a preliminary report by the working party after they met President Ruto at State House.
