KOCHI: Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan will inaugurate the Praveshanotsavam 2025-26 at Kalavoor Government Higher Secondary School on Monday at 9.50am. Cultural programmes by the students as part of the function will start at 8.30 am.
The Minister for General Education V Sivankutty will welcome the children of Class I. A dance performance based on Praveshanotsavam theme song will be presented at 9.30am, followed by the release of a book on the achievements of the General Education Department. Chief Minister Pinarayi and Minister for Cultural Affairs Saji Cherian will release the book. The inaugural function of the state-level entrance festival will be displayed at all schools, after which Praveshanotsavams will be held at every school in the state.
“The academic master plan will be published by June 10. The academic year 2025-26 will be considered as the Comprehensive Quality Year. Various activities and projects are being implemented as part of making Comprehensive Quality Education efficient, ensuring that the knowledge and skills to be acquired by children in each class are acquired in the respective classes itself.
The learning processes will be developed in such a way that the values envisaged in the Constitution, such as democracy, secularism, and equality along with the social values and civic consciousness put forward by the Curriculum Framework 2023, are instilled in children,” said minister Sivankutty.
“NCERT has prepared a school readiness package for children who enter Class 1 without any preschool learning experience and with different preschool experiences. Samagra Shiksha Kerala has been tasked with developing the module,” he added. In the context of the revision of the Class I curriculum and textbook, Samagra Shiksha Kerala has prepared a readiness package for the implementation of the first two weeks of the academic year under the name ‘Onnorukkam’ for the year 2025-26.