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!
February
A Schools Clean Up Day is a great way to inspire your students to learn about the impact of rubbish on their local environment while playing an active role in their community.
It's a day when students and teachers work together to clean up an area that is special to them.
Clean Up Australia Day will also be held on 2 March 2025.
Check out the resources below to get involved in Schools Clean Up Day.
March
Seaweek is New Zealand’s yearly event dedicated to celebrating the ocean and our deep connections to it. This week provides a chance for individuals and communities to come together to honour the marine environment, deepen their understanding of it, and foster stronger ties to the sea. By participating in Seaweek activities, we aim to inspire more people to cultivate a relationship with the ocean that supports both human well-being and biodiversity, ensuring a future where both can thrive.
Find Cool.org's Sea-relevant resources below to help you bring this day to life in your classroom.
On 20 December 2013, at its 68th session, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) proclaimed 3 March – the day of the signature of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) in 1973 – as UN World Wildlife Day to celebrate and raise awareness of the world’s wild animals and plants. The UNGA resolution also designated the CITES Secretariat as the facilitator for the global observance of this special day for wildlife on the UN calendar. World Wildlife Day has now become the most important global annual event dedicated to wildlife. Check out the resources below to get involved.
International Women's Day (March 8) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. Check out these great resources below to get involved.
We have a series of lessons designed to provide valuable practise for NAPLAN, the national literacy test held in Years 3, 5, 7, and 9. These lesson plans are not officially endorsed publications of the ACARA body but are designed to provide practice for the Aust. Curriculum’s compulsory NAPLAN testing scheme.
World Kidney Day is a global campaign aimed at raising awareness of the importance of our kidneys. World Kidney Day comes back every year. Across the globe, many hundred events take place, from public screenings in Argentina to Zumba marathons in Malaysia. We do it all to create awareness—awareness about preventive behaviours, risk factors, and how to live with kidney disease. We do this because we want kidney health for all.
Harmony Week (or Harmony Day) is an Australian Government program that centres on the message that “Everyone belongs”, reinforcing the importance of inclusiveness to all Australians. Explore resources that support young people's development of empathy, highlight the importance of valuing and appreciating difference, and foster belonging for all.
March 20 has been established as the annual International Day of Happiness and all 193 United Nations member states have adopted a resolution calling for happiness to be given greater priority. In 2011, the UN General Assembly acknowledged happiness as a vital aspect of human life, emphasising its importance through a resolution that called for economic growth to be more inclusive, fair, and balanced, ensuring the well-being of all people. The following year, 2012, saw the UN host its first conference on Happiness. During this event, the General Assembly established 20 March as the International Day of Happiness, which has been celebrated annually since its first observance in 2013.
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