4 hours and 45 minutes school hours in Ramadan

The total number of weekly hours for teachers and administrators is 25 hours for all episodes.

Photography: Patrick Castillo

The Emirates Foundation for School Education has adopted flexibility in starting students' work hours, during the holy month of Ramadan, so that it is at eight or nine in the morning.

The Foundation set the daily hours for students in the second and third cycles, at four hours and 45 minutes, on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.

The school day includes two breaks, and five minutes between classes, while the number of virtual study hours on the remaining Friday of Ramadan is two hours and 10 minutes.

The Foundation has placed within the “Ramadan School Day Design Guide for the Academic Year”, which it recently issued, two scenarios for student attendance;

The first, in which the first session begins at nine in the morning, and includes seven lessons, and the seventh session ends at 1:45 in the afternoon, and the lesson in the second scenario begins at nine and 45, and the last session ends at two and 30 minutes in the afternoon, while the teaching and administrative staff work at nine in the morning It ends at 2:30 p.m.

Regarding the design of the school day for the first cycle on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays, the guide indicated that the number of working hours is four hours and five minutes, and it includes six lessons, including two breaks, and five minutes between each two sessions, and one share of the activity material lessons is reduced, to turn into “self-learning”. The Foundation has set two working scenarios, one of which begins at nine in the morning and ends at one and five minutes, and the second begins at nine and 45 minutes, and ends at one and fifty minutes.

With regard to the kindergarten stage, the daily working hours are three hours and 50 minutes, starting at nine and ending at 12:50, while teachers' work hours continue until two and 30 minutes in the afternoon.

The guide stated that the number of working hours for educational and administrative cadres is five and a half hours, and three hours on Friday, so that the total number of weekly hours for teachers and administrators is 25 hours for all episodes, explaining that five classes have been reduced from the basic weekly quorum for activities materials, so that it turned into « Self-education".

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