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The 2025-2026 Academic Year to begin on September 8, 2025

- Educators to be engaged in week-long Professional Development Day
August 13th, 2025 | Tags: education academic year 2025-2026 students educators
The Ministry of Education in the Virgin Islands (VI) has officially announced that secondary public schools will open for the academic year 2025-2026 on Monday, September 8, 2025. Photo: VINO/File
The schedule of activities for the opening of the 2025/2026 Academic Year in the Virgin Islands. Photo: GIS
The schedule of activities for the opening of the 2025/2026 Academic Year in the Virgin Islands. Photo: GIS
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The Ministry of Education in the Virgin Islands (VI) has officially announced that secondary public schools will open for the academic year 2025-2026 on Monday, September 8, 2025.

To ensure that educators are well-prepared for this upcoming school year, a week-long Professional Development Day and Summer Institute will be held for local teachers.

This programme will run from Monday, August 25, to Friday, August 29, 2025, offering various workshops and training sessions that focus on enhancing teaching practices and instructional strategies.

Following this professional development week, staff meetings and orientation sessions will begin on Monday, September 1, and continue through Friday, September 5, 2025.

These meetings will provide an opportunity for educators to discuss important updates, curriculum changes, and classroom management techniques.

Additionally, teachers will dedicate this time to setting up their classrooms, organising materials, and creating an engaging learning environment for their students, ensuring that they are fully prepared to welcome their classes on the first day of school.

Upcoming activities

Public primary schools in the Virgin Islands will conduct a Kindergarten Readiness Assessment.

Staff meetings and leadership team meetings, along with teacher classroom preparations, will take place from Monday, September 1, 2025, to Friday, September 5, 2025.

New student transfers will occur on Friday, September 5, 2025, and the first day of school for all students will be Monday, September 8, 2025.

Additionally, a Professional Day for educators is scheduled for Monday, August 25, 2025, followed by a Summer Institute for educators from Tuesday, August 26, to Friday, August 29, 2025.

9 Responses to “The 2025-2026 Academic Year to begin on September 8, 2025 ”

  • bvi lysol (13/08/2025, 10:06) Like (10) Dislike (2) Reply
    infamous school of sex, drugs, pedos , gangs, and almost gun violence. ooh boi Descastro whats the plan for this term? robotics? ok..
    • @ bvi lysol (13/08/2025, 20:45) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
      The same thing happens at other schools, they are just better at keeping it quiet. When the private schools give their unruly students the boot, most of them end up at high school. It would shock some of you to know what happens in some of the private schools especially Cedar. If you think high school have a drug problem……
  • Bwoi (13/08/2025, 10:55) Like (2) Dislike (0) Reply
    Wild wild west about to begin. Let the rude and disrespectful roam wild and free
    • @Bwoi (13/08/2025, 20:40) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
      It’s only the Wild West because most parents not parenting. They are either too busy working(which can’t be helped especially if they are a single parent). Or, they have let things go wild for too long to point that they no longer have control of their children. All the children do not fall prey to bad behavior, there is still a good much that are decent and are embarrassed by the behavior of unruly peers.
  • resident (13/08/2025, 11:44) Like (7) Dislike (0) Reply
    Another Year of Full Steam Ahead with the stationary train.????
    Really seems like we have idea to push the system ahead. Prayers for all those returning to school.
  • bvibuzz (13/08/2025, 12:30) Like (0) Dislike (5) Reply
    Education on the move great minister she ah wuk
  • LOL (13/08/2025, 13:54) Like (0) Dislike (1) Reply
    The new school year commences - so will the constant fighting, increase in consfiscated weapons, & more m¡nors that (unfortunately) get expösed or explöited by staff members in that school . More needs to be done to protect the youth .
  • Funny but not funny (13/08/2025, 20:32) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    One thing you can depend on us for is to put things down on paper so it look and sound good, but nothing close to the actual truth. Set up classrooms with what? Did we get furniture or will the children still be sitting on the teacher’s desk during lectures? Or fighting over the chairs we do have? Are the electric plugs working so fans can be plugged in? Or will the students and teachers be roasting in the heat while our CEO and Minister sit in their cushie air conditioned offices? Do we have toilet paper and hand soap to clean ourselves when we use the bathroom? Or are we expected to just not use the bathroom? Did you service the copiers or bought new ones, do we have paper and toner? And the biggest, are teachers getting teaching resources? Or are we getting your token 2pens and expo markers that is hoped to last us the year? Do you have a national bullying policy in place which holds both parents and their child accountable, with guidance officers trained in conflict resolution? Or will we continue to overwhelm teachers and principals with children whose parents have already given up on them and make no effort to parent?


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