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2025 School Terms and Holidays
Term 1 (up to 11 weeks)
Starts between Monday 27 January and Friday 7 February and ends Friday 11 April
2025 (92-108 half days).
Public holiday: Waitangi – Thursday 6 February.
Term 2 (9 weeks)
Monday 28 April to Friday 27 June 2025 (86 half days).
Public holidays: King’s Birthday – Monday 2 June and Matariki Friday – 20 June.
Term 3 (10 weeks)
Monday 14 July to Friday 19 September 2025 (100 half days).
Term 4 (up to 11 weeks)
Monday 6 October to no later than Friday 19 December 2025 (up to 108 half days)
*.
Public holiday: Labour Day – Monday 27 October.
* For primary, intermediate and specialist schools: or to a day in December
which ensures that the school has been open for instruction for a minimum of 386
half days in 2025. For secondary and composite schools: or to a day in December
which ensures that the school has been open for instruction for 380 half days in
2025.
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