At our August 2023 Board of Trustees meeting, the 2024 term dates were finalised. Please add these to your calendars now to help with any planning you may need to do.

The term dates for 2024 have been confirmed after consultation with the schools in our Puketeraki Kahui Ako (Community of Learning).

School Dates for 2024

Tuesday 30 January - Meet the Teacher & Team times
Wednesday 31 January - Meet the Teacher & Team times
Term 1: Thursday 1 February - Friday 12 April
Term 2: Monday 29 April - Friday 5 July
Term 3: Monday 22 July - Friday 27 September
Term 4: Monday 14 October - Wednesday 18 December

Public Holidays (during Term time)

Term 1:
Tuesday 6 February Waitangi Day
Friday 29 March Good Friday Easter holiday
Monday 1 April Easter Monday Holiday
Tuesday 2 April Easter Tuesday Holiday

Term 2:
Monday 3 June King's Birthday Holiday
Friday 28 June Matariki Holiday

Term 4:
Monday 28 October Labour Day holiday
Thursday 14 November Show weekend holiday
Friday 15 November Canterbury Show Day

Staff Only Days:

School closed the following dates:

Term 1:
Friday 8 March Staff Only Day 

Term 2:
Friday 31 May NZ Curriculum Staff Only Day (King's Birthday weekend)

Term 3:
Friday 23 August Staff Only Day 

Term 4:
Monday 18 November NZ Curriculum Staff Only Day (Show Weekend)

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 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.