Knowing when the school terms starts isn’t always easy. Some terms are longer, some have public holidays or pupil-free days on the Monday. And it isn’t always the same from year to year.
Also if you have family in a different state or territory to where you are, it’s hard to book holidays and trips away because they need to coincide with school term and holiday dates.
We’ve compiled this list of term and school holiday dates for each state and territory for 2016. Print them out or keep the link handy so you remember! Remember that private schools differ in their start and finish dates and some grades finish earlier at the end of the year – so it is a good idea to always double check in these cases.
Also where there is a difference between the teachers’ start date and the students’ start date, the date we have listed is the date the students starts. We have tried… Read the rest