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 2021 dates, where these are known.

Please note : We normally update a number of pages on the first day of each month. This will not be the case in January. As far as possible we will include all known January calendar dates prior to Christmas as well as a new listing for “Year of ... ” Information [2021]. The Calendar pages will not fully update until 17 January 2021. Normal service will be resumed as from 1 February 2021.

“Year of … ” Information

The following is a list of “Years” allotted to 2020. 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 … ”

2021 International Year of Caves and Karst
2021 - Tokyo 2020 Olympics
Postponed from 2020.

“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
4	World Braille Day
4-13	National Youth Science Forum [Session A, Canberra]
11-20	National Youth Science Forum [Session B, Brisbane]
11/1-5/2	AMSI Summer School [Virtual]
13-20	National Mathematics Summer School [ANU-AAMT] [Modified; Virtual Presentation]
15	Wikipedia Day
17	World Religion Day
18-27	National Youth Science Forum [Session C, Canberra]
21/22/25	Student Free Days : Qld
	Updated ! Aboriginal Cultural Showcase [Cancelled for 2021]
24	New ! International Day of Education
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	Students begin Term 1 : Qld
27	Teachers begin Term 1 : NSW
27	Term 1 begins : SA
27	Teachers begin Term 1 : Vic
28	Data Protection Day
28	Students begin Term 1 : NSW
28	Students begin Term 1 : Vic
28	Teachers begin Term 1 : WA
29	Premier’s Reading Challenge starts - SA
29	Teachers begin Term 1 : ACT

Beginning of January

February 2021
Date	Event
1	New Students begin Term 1 : ACT
1	Play Outside Day [First Saturday of every month]
1	Students begin Term 1 : NT
1	Students begin Term 1 : WA
1	Teachers begin Term 1 : NT
1	Teachers begin Term 1 : Tas
1	Term 1 begins : New Zealand [Can start between 1 and 9 Feb.]
TBC	Premier’s Reading Challenge starts - VIC
2	Continuing Students begin Term 1 : ACT
2	Remote Students begin Term 1 : NT
2	World Wetlands Day
3	Students begin Term 1 : Tas
4	World Cancer Day
6	Waitangi Day [NZ]
7-13	New ! Healthy Lunch Box Week
9	Safer Internet Day
11	International Day of Women and Girls in Science
12	Chinese New Year [Year of the Cow]
13	The Apology : Anniversary
13	World Radio Day
14	Library Lovers Day
14	Sweetheart Day
14	Valentine’s Day
15	Chief Minister’s Reading Challenge : ACT. Challenge Commences. [TBC]
15	Galileo’s Birthday
15	Nirvana Day [Buddhism]
16	Pancake Day
16	Shrove Tuesday
16	Vasant Panchami [Hinduism]
17	Ash Wednesday
18	International Asperger’s Day
20	World Day of Social Justice
21	Mother Language Day
21	World Harmony Day
22	World Thinking Day
26	Purim [Judaism] [From nightfall 25 February]
28	Last Day of Summer

Beginning of February

March 2021
Date	Event
1	First Day of Autumn
1	Labour Day : WA
1	Premier’s Reading Challenge starts - NSW
TBC	Catholic Schools Week NSW
1-7	Hearing Awareness Week
1-31	Australian Women’s History Month
1-31	Bandaged Bear Appeal[TBC]
1-31	National Epilepsy Awareness Month
TBC	Queensland HPE Week
3	Girls’ Day - Japan [Hina-matsuri]
3	World Wildlife Day
5	School’s Clean Up Day
5	World Day of Prayer
7	Clean Up Australia Day
7-13	World Glaucoma Week
8	Adelaide Cup Holiday
8	Canberra Day
8	Commonwealth Day
8	International Women’s Day
8	Eight Hour Day : Tas
8	Labour Day : Vic
11	Selective High School Placement Test [NSW]
11	World Kidney Day
13-20	Coeliac Awareness Week
14	International Pi Day
15	Ides of March
15-21	Brain Awareness Week
15-21	New ! Harmony Week
TBC	Catholic Education Week [Vic]
17	St Patrick’s Day
17-28	Seniors Festival NSW
18	Updated ! National Close the Gap Day
19	New ! National Ride2School Day
20	Updated ! National Day of Action Against Bullying and Violence
20	Autumn Equinox
20	World Storytelling Day
20-28	Cultural Diversity Week [Vic] [TBC]
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
22	World Water Day
22-28	Kidney Health Week [TBC]
23	World Meteorological Day
23-25	Computational and Algorithmic Thinking [CAT] [formerly Australian Informatics Competition]
TBC	Seniors Week ACT
24	World TB Day
24-30	National Playgroup Week [TBC]
26	Earth Hour Schools Day
26	Purple Day for Epilepsy Awareness
27	Earth Hour
27	World Theatre Day
27/3-4/4	Pesach [Passover]
31	Updated ! WAKAKIRRI Dance Challenge [Registrations close]
31	Updated ! WAKAKIRRI Primary Challenge [Registrations close]
31	Updated ! WAKAKIRRI Secondary School Challenge [Registrations close]

Beginning of March