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Thursday december 21, 2023 | Christmas holiday (beginning) | School holidays | |
Monday december 25, 2023 | Christmas Day | Catholic or protestant | |
Tuesday december 26, 2023 | Boxing Day/Family Day | Secular holiday | |
Monday january 1, 2024 | New Year's Day | Secular holiday | |
Tuesday january 2, 2024 | Christmas holiday (end) | School holidays | |
Tuesday january 2, 2024 | Day Following New Year's Day | Secular holiday | |
Thursday march 28, 2024 | Easter holiday (beginning) | School holidays | |
Friday march 29, 2024 | Good Friday | Catholic or protestant | |
Sunday march 31, 2024 | Easter | Catholic or protestant | |
Monday april 1, 2024 | Easter Monday | Catholic or protestant | |
Monday april 8, 2024 | Easter holiday (end) | School holidays | |
Monday may 13, 2024 | Mother's Day | Secular holiday | |
Friday june 7, 2024 | End of school year | School holidays | |
Christmas holiday (beginning)
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Thursday december 21, 2023
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Christmas Day
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Monday december 25, 2023
Catholic or protestant : Since pre-historic times in Europe, festivities (bonfires, offrerings) were marking the beginning of longer hours of daylight with fires and ritual. The Roman festival of Saturnalia lasted several days in December (gambling and offerings). Germanic tribes also celebrated mid-winter (drinking and rituals). The Bulgarian (with Koleduvane) and the Polish (with Gwiazdka) perpetuate this tradition. Jesus of Nazareth was probably born in springtime (Reformists favour autumn). But in the 4th century, December 25th was chosen for the celebration of his birth by Pope Julius I (Bishop Liberus is also mentioned in 354 A.D.). Thus, a Christian element was introduced in the long-established mid-winter festivals. Before 1582, the Papal States and other Italian city states celebrated New Years Day on Christmas Day.
Boxing Day/Family Day
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Tuesday december 26, 2023
Secular holiday : The day after Christmas, the Feast of St. Stephen, the first Christian martyr, is better known as Boxing Day. The term may come from the opening of church poor boxes that day; maybe from the earthenware boxes with which boy apprentices collected money at the doors of their masters' clients.
New Year's Day
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Monday january 1, 2024
Secular holiday : The world's most widely celebrated holiday, New Years was set on January 1 by Julius Caesar because that was the date the Roman consuls took over their duties. Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Christmas holiday (end)
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Tuesday january 2, 2024
School holidays : Https://www.tokelau.org.nz/
official calendar
School uniform required
No school on Saturday
The total student population across the schools is just over 400.
Day Following New Year's Day
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Tuesday january 2, 2024
Secular holiday :
Easter holiday (beginning)
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Thursday march 28, 2024
School holidays :
Good Friday
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Friday march 29, 2024
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.
Easter
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Sunday march 31, 2024
Catholic or protestant : Not a paid holiday
Easter Monday
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Monday april 1, 2024
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.
Easter holiday (end)
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Monday april 8, 2024
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Mother's Day
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Monday may 13, 2024
Secular holiday :
End of school year
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Friday june 7, 2024
School holidays :