The schools will stage year end festivities on May 29. Afterward, most of the children will go on vacation, but the ninth and twelfth graders will enter the examination session, IPN reports.

In the May 25 meeting of officials of Chisinau services and subdivisions, the head of the Chisinau General Division of Education, Youth and Sport Tatiana Nagnibeda-Tverdohleb said the solemn festivities start at 8:30am.

There are over 6,000 high school graduates in Chisinau municipality. About 6,000 students finish the ninth grade. The exams start on June 2.

The first stage to enroll first graders was completed last weekend. The second stage, to fill the over 2,000 vacant places, will last throughout June.