Updated Calendar 2021-2022

The AIS calendar is changing in 2021-2022. Please read a message from the Head of School below.

Message from the head

Dear AIS Community,

AIS is going strong during these times of COVID-19 uncertainties. I am delighted to say that after the Christmas holidays, we are expecting more than 20 new students to join our community in various grade levels. What a great sign of confidence and trust in our school!

The Board and Senior Management Team have already started planning for the coming school year and, in light of these plans, we have evaluated the validity of our current approach to school holidays. It has been a tradition that AIS only partially aligns with Belgian public school holidays but COVID-19 taught us the limitations of this approach. Many factors need to be considered when a school calendar is established: travel requirements of our expat community, childcare options for our local teachers, religious holidays of different cultures, exam requirements, government decision timelines in case of crisis, to name just a few.

After carefully weighing up all possible options, we have decided to further align the AIS school calendar with Belgian public school holidays. Here is an overview of our approach from school year 2021-2022 onwards.

• End of school year: end of June (new)
• Start of new school year: end of August (new)
• Closely aligned with Belgian public schools; small differences are still possible depending on the weekday when public school holidays start and end

• 1 week
• Same as Belgian public schools (new)

• 3 weeks
• Same as Belgian public schools but one week added before or after (no change)

• 1 week
• Same as Belgian public schools (no change)

• 1 week
• Overlapping with one of the two weeks of Belgian public school holidays (no change)

• 180 days (no change)

With kind regards,

Andreas Koini
Head of School