Education Calendar for January to March

Calendar

The following is not a complete listing of every world, or Australian, special day or event, only those felt likely to be of value to schools. Some major religion-specific dates are found here, but a more complete listing can be found through the Multifaith Calendar page.

Calendar events are given in date [then alphabetical] order listings for each month.

Where the date is not known at this time, we have used the code “TBC” [To Be Confirmed]. The actual date will be added as soon as it is known.

The date/events given for the months already completed this year, provide 2020 dates, where these are known.

“Year of … ” Information

The following is a list of “Years” allotted to 2019. They include international nominations as well as others such as the “Chinese Year of …”. Every effort has been made to include all major nominations.

The first group are Officially Nominated Years [International, e.g. United Nations, Chinese Calendar, … ]; the second “United Nations Decades of” ; while the third are those declared by a range of other bodies. A group of “Future Years of …” have also been added.

“Year of … ”

“Decade of … ”

“Other Years of … ”

“Future Years of … ”

Listed in the same groupings and order as above. Others will be added as we become aware of them.

January 2021
Date	Event
1	New Years Day
1	Public Domain Day
TBC	National Youth Science Forum [Session A, Canberra]
4	World Braille Day
TBC	National Mathematics Summer School [ANU-AAMT]
TBC	AMSI Summer School
TBC	National Youth Science Forum [Session B, Brisbane]
15	Wikipedia Day
TBC	National Youth Science Forum [Session C, Canberra]
17	World Religion Day
TBC	Aboriginal Cultural Showcase [Tamworth Country Music Festival]
TBC	Student Free Days : Qld
26	Australia Day
26	World Leprosy Day [Can be held on nearest Sunday to this date]
26	Yabun : Celebrating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures [NSW]
27	Holocaust Memorial Day
27	Premier’s Be Active Challenge starts - SA
27	Teachers begin Term 1 : NSW
TBC	Students begin Term 1 : NT
27	Term 1 begins : SA
27	Teachers begin Term 1 : Vic
28	Data Protection Day
TBC	Remote Students begin Term 1 : NT
28	Students begin Term 1 : NSW
28	Students begin Term 1 : Qld [TBC]
28	Students begin Term 1 : Vic
29	Premier’s Reading Challenge starts - SA
29	Teachers begin Term 1 : ACT

Beginning of January

February 2020
Date	Event
1	Play Outside Day [First Saturday of every month]
1	Teachers begin Term 1 : NT [2021, TBC]
1	Term 1 2021 begins : New Zealand [Can start between 1 and 9 Feb.]
1-28	HeartKids National Awareness Month
TBC	Chief Minister’s Reading Challenge : ACT
TBC	Premier’s Reading Challenge starts - VIC
2	World Wetlands Day
3	New Students begin Term 1 : ACT
3	Teachers begin Term 1 : Tas
3	Students begin Term 1 : WA
3	Teachers begin Term 1 : WA
4	Continuing Students begin Term 1 : ACT
4	World Cancer Day
5	Students begin Term 1 : Tas
6	Waitangi Day [NZ]
11	International Day of Women and Girls in Science
11	Safer Internet Day
12-23	Seniors Festival NSW
13	The Apology : Anniversary
13	World Radio Day
14	Library Lovers Day
14	Sweetheart Day
14	Valentine’s Day
15	Galileo’s Birthday
15	Nirvana Day [Buddhism]
16	Updated ! Vasant Panchami [Hinduism] 2021
18	International Asperger’s Day
20	World Day of Social Justice
21	Updated ! Chinese New Year 2021 [Year of the Cow]
21	Mother Language Day
21	World Harmony Day
22	World Thinking Day
25	Pancake Day
25	Shrove Tuesday
26	Ash Wednesday
28	Updated ! School’s Clean Up Day
28	Last Day of Summer

Beginning of February

March 2020
Date	Event
1	Updated ! Clean Up Australia Day
1	First Day of Autumn
1-7	Hearing Awareness Week
1-31	Australian Women’s History Month
1-31	Bandaged Bear Appeal
1-31	National Epilepsy Awareness Month
2	Labour Day : WA
2	Updated ! Premier’s Reading Challenge starts - NSW
2-6	Queensland HPE Week
3	Girls’ Day - Japan [Hina-matsuri]
3	World Wildlife Day
TBC	Catholic Schools Week NSW
6	World Day of Prayer
TBC	Chief Minister’s Reading Challenge : ACT. School Registration, last day
7	World Book Day
8	International Women’s Day
9	Adelaide Cup Holiday
9	Canberra Day
9	Commonwealth Day
9	Eight Hour Day : Tas
9	Labour Day : Vic
10	Purim [Judaism] [From nightfall 9 March]
10-16	World Glaucoma Week
12	Selective High School Placement Test [NSW]
12	World Kidney Day
13	National Ride2School Day
13-20	Coeliac Awareness Week
14	International Pi Day
15	Ides of March
15-22	Catholic Education Week [Vic]
16-20	International Brain Awareness Week
16-20	Brain Awareness Week [Aust]
17	St Patrick’s Day
19	National Close the Gap Day
20	National Day of Action Against Bullying and Violence
20	World Storytelling Day
21	Autumn Equinox
21	Eliminating Racial Discrimination Day
21	Harmony Day
21	International Day of Forests
21	International Day of Nowruz
21	World Down Syndrome Day
21	World Home Economics Day
21	World Poetry Day
21-29	Cultural Diversity Week [Vic]
22	World Water Day
23	World Meteorological Day
23-29	Seniors Week ACT
24	World TB Day
TBC	National Playgroup Week
26	Purple Day for Epilepsy Awareness
27	Term 1 Ends : Vic
27	World Theatre Day
29	Earth Hour Schools Day
30	Earth Hour

Beginning of March