In a timetable revision after 25 years, schools in the State — from standards 1 to 10 — will have eight periods in a day. For the first time, English, Art, and Physical Education will have designated periods every week.
These and other modifications to the school timetable were approved at a meeting chaired by Education Minister P. K. Abdu Rabb here on Thursday.
On all weekdays except Friday, classes will begin at 10 a.m.; the first and second periods will be 40 minutes long. There will then be an interval of 10 minutes. The 40-minute third period will begin at 11.30 a.m. The fourth period, 35 minutes long, will begin at 12.10 p.m.
This will be followed by an hour-long lunch break. The fifth and sixth periods will be 35 minutes long. There will be a five-minute break at 2.55 p.m. The last two periods will last 30 minutes each, and classes will come to an end by 4 p.m. On Friday, classes will be held from 9.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. There will be a two-hour break from 12.15 to 2.15 p.m.
The lower primary section will have 10 periods a week for Malayalam, and six for Maths. While classes 1 and 2 will have five periods for environmental studies, classes three and four will have six periods for this subject. From classes 1 to 4, there will be three periods a week for work experience and art education. While classes 1 and 2 will have three periods for health and physical education, classes 3 and 4 will have two periods for this. There will be five periods of English a week for classes 1 to 4. There will be four periods a week for Arabic/Sanskrit and one period for creative work.
In the upper primary section, there will be four periods a week for the first language. While part one first language will have two periods a week, part two second language (English) will have six periods for class 5, and five each for standards 6 and 7. There will be two periods for Hindi in class 5, and three each for standards 6 and 7. There will be five periods in each standard for basic Maths and five each for general science and social science. There will be three periods for work experience, art education, and health and physical education. There will be one period for creative work and one for library.
For the high school classes, there will be four periods a week for first language part one, and two periods for first language part two. English will have five periods and Hindi three.
Distribution
There will be five periods for Maths in classes 8 and 9, and six in standard 10. There will be two periods a week for Physics and Chemistry, and two periods for Biology in classes 8 and 9. There will be three periods for Biology in standard 10. There will be four, five, and six periods for social science in classes eight, nine and 10, respectively. There will be two, two and one periods for work experience for classes 8, 9, 10, respectively. There will be two periods each for art education in classes 8 and 9 and one in standard 10. While there will be two periods for health and physical education for standard 8, there will be one each for standards 9 and 10. There will be four periods for IT (two for theory and two for practical) for these three classes. There will one period for creative work in standards 8 and 9.
