Historical archive. This page preserves Singapore’s 2015 school-term calendar as an archival reference. The dates below are not current and should not be used for planning in 2026 or later.
Quick Read
This article records how the Ministry of Education school year was structured in 2015: four terms, vacation periods, scheduled school holidays and public holidays. It is retained because old calendars can be useful when reconstructing historical school schedules, examination timing, operating history and education-policy timelines.
For current planning: always use the Ministry of Education’s current official school-terms and holidays information rather than the dates on this page.
Why keep a calendar from 2015?
A dated school calendar appears disposable once the year ends, but historical schedules can still answer useful questions. They help establish when school terms began and ended, how vacation windows were arranged, when scheduled holidays occurred, and what the operating environment looked like when older eduKateSG articles were written.
For a long-lived education site, keeping the archive is often better than deleting the URL. The correct treatment is to make the historical status unmistakable, remove obsolete operational claims, and route current readers to a live official source.
Singapore Primary and Secondary School Calendar — 2015
| Semester | Term | 2015 dates |
|---|---|---|
| Semester I | Term I | Friday 2 January – Friday 13 March |
| Semester I | Term II | Monday 23 March – Friday 29 May |
| Semester II | Term III | Monday 29 June – Friday 4 September |
| Semester II | Term IV | Monday 14 September – Friday 20 November |
The 2015 school year for MOE primary and secondary schools therefore ran from 2 January to 20 November, with vacation periods between the four terms and a year-end break beginning after Term IV.
2015 Vacation Periods
| Vacation period | 2015 dates |
|---|---|
| Between Terms I and II | Saturday 14 March – Sunday 22 March |
| Between Semesters I and II | Saturday 30 May – Sunday 28 June |
| Between Terms III and IV | Saturday 5 September – Sunday 13 September |
| End of school year | Saturday 21 November – Thursday 31 December |
Scheduled School Holidays in 2015
| Holiday | Date in 2015 |
|---|---|
| Youth Day | Sunday 5 July; Monday 6 July was the scheduled school holiday |
| Teachers’ Day | Friday 4 September |
| Children’s Day | Friday 9 October, for primary schools and primary sections of full schools |
Public Holidays Listed in the 2015 Calendar
| Holiday | Date in 2015 |
|---|---|
| New Year’s Day | Thursday 1 January |
| Chinese New Year | Thursday 19 February and Friday 20 February |
| Good Friday | Friday 3 April |
| Labour Day | Friday 1 May |
| Vesak Day | Monday 1 June |
| Hari Raya Puasa | Friday 17 July |
| National Day | Sunday 9 August; Monday 10 August was a public holiday |
| Hari Raya Haji | Thursday 24 September |
| Deepavali | Tuesday 10 November, as listed in the 2015 calendar |
| Christmas Day | Friday 25 December |
How a school calendar affects learning
A school calendar is more than a list of dates. It creates the time structure inside which curriculum, assessment, revision, rest and family routines have to fit.
- Terms define instructional windows. Teachers and students have bounded periods in which topics must be introduced, practised and assessed.
- Vacation periods create recovery and consolidation windows. They may be used for rest, travel, reading, revision or bridging work depending on the student’s stage.
- National examinations create backward-planning constraints. The school year is not operationally symmetrical because examination cohorts have different late-year requirements.
- Families coordinate around the same calendar. Childcare, travel, tuition and enrichment all depend on the official term structure.
Calendar dates are state, not strategy
Knowing that a holiday begins on a particular date does not by itself tell a student what to do with it. Educational planning requires another layer: current learning state, upcoming assessments, fatigue, family plans and the amount of independent work the learner can realistically manage.
Two students can have the same two-week holiday and need very different plans. One may require recovery and light maintenance. Another may need targeted repair before the next term. A third may benefit most from reading and wider experiences rather than additional worksheets.
How to use historical calendars responsibly
- Use them for historical reconstruction, not current planning.
- Record the year explicitly whenever quoting a date.
- Prefer official contemporary sources when checking current schedules.
- Do not assume that recurring holidays fall on the same dates each year.
- Separate school holidays from public holidays; they are different categories.
- Check examination calendars separately when planning for national examinations.
Historical operating note
The original eduKateSG article also included a 2015 operating statement and an old Tampines address. Those details are no longer reliable operational information and have been retired from the reader-facing archive.
This page now has one clear purpose: preserve the 2015 education-calendar record while preventing an old operational notice from being mistaken for current guidance.
Archive status: historical 2015 dates only. For any present or future school planning, confirm dates directly with the Singapore Ministry of Education.