TS School Academic Calendar 2016-17 Telangana :Telangana State Govt has released the Telangana State Proposed Academic Calender 2015-16 for Telangana PS,UPS and High Schools.School related all items kept in Academic Calendar for the year 2015-16 like as Reopening of the schools,Syllabus distribution,Exam schedule(FA 1,FA 2,FA 3,FA 4,SA 1(Quarterly),SA 2(Half Yearly),SA 3(Final Exams),Pre-final for class X),Term Holidays,New syllabus for the academic year 2016-17 ,Rational for starting the next year syllabus ,Training programmes to Primary teachers,Upper primary Teachers,High School Teachers,Training to teachers working in English medium schools and full details is as follows
Academic Calendar - Main schedule of activities
- Reopening of the schools – 12th June, 2015
- Syllabus distribution – The syllabus for all subjects is distributed from the months of June, 2015 to 15th February, 2015. The syllabus was demarcated for Quarterly, Half yearly and Annual examinations.
Examinations schedule
Exams |
Dates |
No. of working days and dates for
declaring results |
| FA1 | before 30th July, 2015 The
performance must be recorded in the registers and cumulative records. | 40 working days |
| FA2 | before 30th August , 2015 The
performance must be recorded in the registers and cumulative records. | 23 working days |
SA1
(Quarterly) | 21.09.2015 to 28.09.2015 | after 78 working days
answer scripts to children and declaring results 29.09.2015 to 30.09.2015. Parents meeting on 03.10.2015 |
| FA3 | before 30th November, 2015 The
performance must be recorded in the registers and cumulative records. | 37 working days |
| SA 2 | 17.12.2015 to 23.12.2015 | answer scripts to children and declaring
results 28.12.2015 and 29.12.2015. Parents meeting on 31.12.2015.
after 50 working days |
| FA4 | before 30th January, 2016 The
performance must be recorded in the registers and cumulative records. | after 22 working days |
| SA 3 | 07.03.2016 to 14.03.2016 | after 52 working days
answer scripts to children and declaring results 16.03.2016 and 17.03.2016. Parents meeting on 21.03.2016. |
Pre-final
for class X | 15.02.2016 to 27.02.2016 | - |
Alternatively the dates for quarterly and half yearly have been discussed to hold before the Dasera and Sankranthi festivals i.e. during October and January as given hereunder.
1.SA1 (quarterly) :03.10.2015 to 09.10.2015
2.SA 2 (half yearly) :02.01.2016 to 08.01.2016
However, if we follow the above timetable, the exam dates followed by vacation results in no working days during October and January for classroom transaction. Therefore, the timetable for the exams as shown in the table will be followed.
Term Holidays
• 12.10.2015 to 26.10.2015 : First term holidays (Dasera)
• 24.12.2015 to 30.12.2015 : Christmas holidays (for Christian minority schools)
• 11.01.2016 to 17.01.2016 : Second term holidays (Sankranthi)
• 24.04.2016 to 11.06.2016 : Summer vacation
New syllabus for the academic year 2016-17 16.03.2016 to 23.04.2016Rational for starting the next year syllabus from March last week onwards
• In order to value the answer scripts and declare results, the annual examinations are pre-poned and conducted in the first week of April, 2015. In this regard, meaningful engagement of the children after exams i.e. for the period 10th to 23rd April is become an issue and majority Head Masters and private school managements complained that children do not come if we do not engage properly.
• Starting the next year syllabus for a period of one month before closing of schools for summer vacation enable children to read the books, doing the projects in the summer vacation. This helps the children to acquaint children with next year syllabus.
• Children will meaningfully engaged and full attendance may be expected we start next year syllabus.
• The first Formative work i.e. projects, written assignments, book reading and review etc. may be completed by the students during summer vacation.
• All the CBSE school are following this pattern of starting the next year syllabus during March and April. They conduct annual exams and declare results before second week of March of every year and start new syllabus from third week of March onwards.
Training programmes to In-service teachers
(A) Primary teachers: A 6-day programme on English language teaching learning process @ 3 days on classroom transaction for classes I and II 3-days for classes III to V.
(B) Upper Primary and High Schools: 4-day training programme in all the subjects on following areas.
• Content enrichment and clarification of doubts.
• Classroom teaching learning process.
• Assessment (CCE)- Focus on Formative and Summative Assessment and preparing question papers duly following the blueprint.
• Co-curricular activities
(C) Training to teachers working in English medium schools (Success Schools): Separate training shall be organized for the teachers teaching English medium sections in High Schools. This will be on English language communication and subject.
(D) Training will be on demand and based on needs of the teachers: The trainings are being organized in a non serious way. Certain teachers are not interested to attend the training programme and says that they don’t need training programmes. Therefore, willingness of the teachers to undergo training may be collected through MEOs and Dy.EOs. All the teachers will be informed about the contents of the training programme, venue, particulars of the RPs, training amounts etc. and requested for their willingness. Those who wants training alone can be invited for the training.
