L’school year 2024/2025 will leave in Sicily Thursday 12 September 2024 and will end on Saturday 7 June 2025. This is established by a decree of the regional department of education and professional training which concerns all Sicilian schools of all levels. There will be a total of 207 school days or 206 if the local patron’s day falls during the school term. An exception is the nursery school, for which the end of educational activities is set for 28 June 2025, but in the period between 9 and 27 June the institutes will be able to leave only the sections necessary to guarantee the service in operation. As regards national holidays, 10 days of holiday are planned for Christmas, from 23 December 2024 to 7 January 2025 and four days of suspension of activities for Easter, from 17 to 22 April 2025. Since last year, lessons have also been suspended November 2, the day of commemoration of the deceased.
However, the anniversary of May 15th, Sicilian Autonomy Day, does not provide for the interruption of lessons because it is expected to be dedicated to specific moments of scholastic aggregation for the study of the Statute of the Sicilian Region and for the in-depth study of problems connected to autonomy, history and regional identity. Based on the needs due to the educational offer plan, the individual club or institute councils can adopt flexibility criteria regarding the start date and suspension of educational activities, providing for the recovery of lessons in other periods of the year. ‘year. In particular, educational institutions can establish further suspensions of lessons for a maximum of three days.
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