School Events and Awareness Days
Welcome to the 2025 schools event calendar!
Awareness events are an awesome way to get kids, parents and educators involved in meaningful learning! We have aligned each awareness event or day with a package of free curriculum-aligned resources aimed at getting your whole school involved. Popular events like Reconciliation Week, National Science Week, Book Week and Harmony Day all feature, and you can use these resources to teach lessons that help kids build empathy and make change in their local community.
Here’s to a great new year of learning, stay cool!
April
Nature play is about taking kids into nature and allowing them the time, space, and freedom to explore, discover, and marvel at the natural world.
We have some great resources to help you inspire your kids to get outside and learn while having fun!
From its inception at the First Health Assembly in 1948 and since taking effect in 1950, the celebration has aimed to create awareness of a specific health theme to highlight a priority area of concern for the World Health Organisation.
Find resources to help you teach young people about health—mental, physical and social—by clicking the button below.
Earth Day is marked by more than a billion people every year as a day of action to change human behavior and create global, national and local policy changes.
Now, the fight for a clean environment continues with increasing urgency, as the ravages of climate change become more apparent every day.
Find resources that will help you teach your people of all ages about how to take better care of our environment.
Anzac Day, observed annually on 25 April, is a significant day of reflection and commemoration in Australia, New Zealand, and Tonga. It honours the service and sacrifice of Australians and New Zealanders in all wars, conflicts, and peacekeeping missions, while also recognising the hardships endured by those who have served. Originally established to pay tribute to the members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) who fought in the Gallipoli campaign during the First World War, Anzac Day has since evolved into a broader remembrance of all who have contributed to military efforts throughout history.
May
Practising mindfulness is important for everyone. Mindfulness can help educators and young people boost concentration, reduce stress, manage emotions, and improve physical and mental health.
Check out resources that support learning about and practising mindfulness with your students.
World Laughter Day was introduced on 10 January 1998 in Mumbai, India, by Dr. Madan Kataria, the creator of laughter yoga. This unique practice, rooted in the facial feedback hypothesis, encourages group laughter to boost mood and well-being, often leading to genuine, contagious laughter. World Laughter Day serves as a global initiative to foster unity and harmony, using the power of laughter as a tool to promote peace and strengthen connections across cultures.
May 17 marks the date in 1990 that homosexuality was removed from the WHO Classification of Diseases. Over two decades later, LGBTQIA+ communities still face discrimination – the stakes have never been higher to champion inclusion. Read more about the full history of IDAHOBIT here. This is a great opportunity to bring the ideals of inclusiveness, equality and diversity into your classroom.
World Bee Day's purpose is to spread awareness of the significance of bees and other pollinators for our survival. It is an excellent opportunity to put bees at the centre of the national conversation for a day and encourage actions that create more bee-friendly landscapes.
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