How to set up an academic calendar in Cape Town

setting up an academic calendar in Cape Town

Every downstream fight — attendance, exams, fees — is a calendar fight that started in week zero.

Every downstream fight — attendance, exams, fees — is a calendar fight that started in week zero. Cape Town still has to do this against CAPS, NSC, IEB, Western Cape Education Department. January opening; WCED circulars and exam study leave belong on the shared calendar. Named facts: CAPS, NSC, Western Cape Education Department, Rand.

Rand tuition; independent levies vs departmental fee-exemption processes. Named facts: CAPS, NSC, Western Cape Education Department, Rand. Named owners still have to keep the holiday master, the roster, and the family view aligned in this place, because a brochure paragraph will not survive the first mid-year joiner or the first board week.

Importing last year’s file blindly.
Three unofficial calendars.
Rand tuition; independent levies vs departmental fee-exemption processes. Named facts: CAPS, NSC, Western Cape Education Department, Rand.

Name the year start

April, September, January, July — whatever this campus actually uses.

In Cape Town: January opening; WCED circulars and exam study leave belong on the shared calendar. Rand tuition; independent levies vs departmental fee-exemption processes. Named facts: CAPS, NSC, Western Cape Education Department, Rand.

Every downstream fight — attendance, exams, fees — is a calendar fight that started in week zero. Named owners still have to keep the holiday master, the roster, and the family view aligned in this place, because a brochure paragraph will not survive the first mid-year joiner or the first board week.

April, September, January, July — whatever this campus actually uses.
Schoolyi treats the academic calendar as the source of working days for attendance, exams, and leave.
Named facts: CAPS, NSC, Western Cape Education Department, Rand.

One owner

Official exceptions only.

Official exceptions only.
Schoolyi treats the academic calendar as the source of working days for attendance, exams, and leave.
Named facts: CAPS, NSC, Western Cape Education Department, Rand.

Board seasons as blocks

Until circulars exist, do not invent Mondays.

Until circulars exist, do not invent Mondays.
Schoolyi treats the academic calendar as the source of working days for attendance, exams, and leave.
Named facts: CAPS, NSC, Western Cape Education Department, Rand.

Staff vs pupil days

INSET can be a pupil holiday and a staff working day.

INSET can be a pupil holiday and a staff working day.
Schoolyi treats the academic calendar as the source of working days for attendance, exams, and leave.
Named facts: CAPS, NSC, Western Cape Education Department, Rand.

Where this usually breaks

Importing last year’s file blindly. Three unofficial calendars.

Cape Town is not exempt. CAPS, NSC, IEB, Western Cape Education Department. Named facts: CAPS, NSC, Western Cape Education Department, Rand.

Schoolyi treats the academic calendar as the source of working days for attendance, exams, and leave. Named owners still have to keep the holiday master, the roster, and the family view aligned in this place, because a brochure paragraph will not survive the first mid-year joiner or the first board week.

Importing last year’s file blindly.
Three unofficial calendars.
Schoolyi treats the academic calendar as the source of working days for attendance, exams, and leave.

How Schoolyi fits

Schoolyi treats the academic calendar as the source of working days for attendance, exams, and leave.

Open /features/academic-foundation after you can describe the awkward case. This page is a playbook, not a feature grid. Named facts: CAPS, NSC, Western Cape Education Department, Rand.

Working days yes. Schemes no. Named owners still have to keep the holiday master, the roster, and the family view aligned in this place, because a brochure paragraph will not survive the first mid-year joiner or the first board week.

Playbook: /how-to/set-up-academic-calendar
Product: /features/academic-foundation
Book a demo with your awkward case, not a slide deck

Questions

Can two boards share a calendar? Working days yes. Schemes no.

Who may close a day? A named role. January opening; WCED circulars and exam study leave belong on the shared calendar.

Emergency same-day? Yes, or percentages are fiction. Named facts: CAPS, NSC, Western Cape Education Department, Rand. Named owners still have to keep the holiday master, the roster, and the family view aligned in this place, because a brochure paragraph will not survive the first mid-year joiner or the first board week.

Can two boards share a calendar? Working days yes. Schemes no.
Who may close a day? A named role.
Emergency same-day? Yes, or percentages are fiction.

Bring this playbook to a demo in Cape Town

Write the awkward case before you watch slides: a mid-year joiner, a concession after invoicing, or a working-day exception. Schoolyi treats the academic calendar as the source of working days for attendance, exams, and leave. Named facts: CAPS, NSC, Western Cape Education Department, Rand. January opening; WCED circulars and exam study leave belong on the shared calendar.

Schoolyi is the operations system for that walkthrough — one student record, one academic calendar, publish gates on results, receipts that match finance. Score statutory filing and hardware as not met unless the deployment actually has them. Rand tuition; independent levies vs departmental fee-exemption processes. CAPS, NSC, IEB, Western Cape Education Department

Every downstream fight — attendance, exams, fees — is a calendar fight that started in week zero. April, September, January, July — whatever this campus actually uses. Named owners still have to keep the holiday master, the roster, and the family view aligned in this place, because a brochure paragraph will not survive the first mid-year joiner or the first board week.

Open /features/academic-foundation
Book a demo with the awkward case
Named facts: CAPS, NSC, Western Cape Education Department, Rand.