Tuesday is a school holiday this year. Schools are closed across New Zealand.

An explanation about Easter Tuesday:

Easter Tuesday

The Tuesday following Easter Monday is a school holiday (not a statutory holiday), meaning schools must not be open.

The terms and holidays are usually set so that Easter occurs during the first term break and the Easter Tuesday school holiday goes unnoticed. However, in some years Easter falls much earlier than usual such as in 1997, 2005, 2008, 2013, 2016, 2021 and 2024.

To have the first two-week term break at Easter in those years would shorten the first term to around only eight weeks, instead of around 11 or 12 weeks, and mean that at least one of the other three terms would have to be correspondingly longer. 

As the Minister aims to set four terms of reasonably uniform length, in years when Easter falls particularly early, all or some of the Easter break will be during the first term.