| Summer holiday (end) - Friday February 28, 2020 School holidays : Www.education.nt.gov.au
Calendar gazetted by the Ministry of Education
Study programs are not yet aligned with the requirements of the Bologna Process
PISA ranking (average 493): 510 (among the 15 best WW)
Schooling is mandatory till age 16
number of instructional hours per year in lower secondary education: 821
Number of yearly instructional days: 200
Computer to student ratio: 1:3
No school on Saturday
school uniforms are required
We carry all confirmed dates till Dec 2020
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| Easter holiday (beginning) - Friday April 3, 2020 School holidays :
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| Good Friday - Friday April 10, 2020 Catholic or protestant : The First Council of Nicaea (a gathering of bishops in the early days of Christianity) wanted to find a day to commemorate the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ.
This commemoration had to be linked to Jewish holiday traditions, since the last supper of Christ was believed to be a Jewish Passover meal. But the Jewish calendar is based on lunar and solar cycles, so the Easter celebration had to follow the same calendar.
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| Holy Saturday - Saturday April 11, 2020 Catholic or protestant : paid holiday
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| Easter Monday - Monday April 13, 2020 Catholic or protestant : In the year 325, the Council of Nicée determined a date fo Easter. Full Moon would fall the 14th day of a moon month (1). Easter would be marked by the dominical letter(2)and the epactus(3). With the establishment of the equinox ne variatur on March 21, algorithms where elaborated to attribuate a date for Easter whatever the year.
Time between two consecutive new moons: 20 days 12 hours 44 minutes 2.8 - Gives a letter code for the year's calendar Age of the moon on January 1st, minus one unity, 0 being the new moon's age.
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| Easter holiday (end) - Monday April 13, 2020 School holidays :
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| Anzac Day - Monday April 27, 2020 Secular holiday : ANZAC(Australia and New Zealand Army Corps)Day commemorates those soldiers who died during world
wars (from the Boer war to the Vietnam war), and particuarly remembers those who died during the Gallipoli campaign during WW1(Turkey).
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| May Day - Monday May 4, 2020 Secular holiday :
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