2021 School Calendar - e Q

Address: Hoare Street, Manunda, Cairns PO Box 7092, Cairns Qld 4870 Telephone: 07 4080 9111 Facsimile: 07 4080 9100

Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.cairnssde.eq.edu.au

2021 School Calendar

Global Learning

Principal: Andrew Oliver - 07 4080 9224 Deputy Principal: Chris Rigden - 07 4080 9196 Deputy Principal: Tanya Findlay - 07 4080 9196 Deputy Principal: Kirk Findlay - 07 4080 9196 Business Manager: Fiona Candlish - 07 4080 9224

Year Overview [Whole of school systems, Community Engagement and Teaching & Learning]

All events are subject to Queensland Health directives. Term Dates Term 1 27/01/2021 - 01/04/2021 Term 2 19/04/2021 - 25/06/2021 Term 3 12/07/2021 - 17/09/2021 Term 4 05/10/2021 - 10/12/2021 Community Engagement Orientation Week Term 1 27/01 - 29/01/21 Orientation Day Term 3 15/07/21 *Let’s Connect Tablelands 02/03 - 03/03/21 Cairns 04/03 - 05/03/21 Online 04/03 - 05/03/21 Peninsula 21/04 - 22/04/21 Savannah 28/04 - 29/04/21 *STEAM Camp 25/03 - 26/03/21 17/06 - 18/06/21 01/09 - 02/09/21 (cancelled) 09/09 - 10/09/21 (cancelled) Music Camp 22/03 - 23/03/21 21/06 - 22/06/21 13/09 - 14/09/21 25/11 - 26/11/21 Annual School Camp 24/05 - 26/05/21 Senior Camp 24/05 - 27/05/21 Cultural & Wellbeing Day & 27/05/21 NAIDOC Day (combined) Sports Day 28/05/21 Cairns Show Public Holiday 16/07/21 Mini School: Savannah (cancelled) 27/07 - 29/07/21 Tablelands 03/08 - 05/08/21 Cairns (postponed date TBC) 17/08 - 19/08/21 Peninsula (postponed date TBC) 17/08 - 19/08/21 Celebration Week 29/11 - 03/12/21 * Subject to weather conditions and access.

Exam Period General Subjects Unit 3 Exam Block 04/05/21 - 07/05/21 Unit 1 Exam Block 31/05/21 - 04/06/21 Unit 4 Exam Block 02/08/21 - 06/08/21 Unit 2 Exam Block 18/10/21 - 22/10/21 External Exams Year 12 Term 4 Weeks 4, 5, 6 & 7 Applied Subjects (including Year 10) Unit 1 Exam Block 14/06/21 - 18/06/21 Unit 3 Exam Block 21/06/21 - 25/06/21 Unit 4 Exam Block 18/10/21 - 22/10/21 Unit 2 Exam Block 15/11/21 - 19/11/21 NAPLAN On Paper 11/05 - 13/05/21 Online 11/05 - 21/05/21 Hospitality in Practice Year 11 & 12 16/08 - 20/08/21 (postponed) Year 12 11/10 - 13/10/21 Open Learning Campus (OLC) Community Lunch 01/04/21 24/06/21 16/09/21 25/11/21 P&C Meetings 08/02/21 15/03/21 (AGM) 27/04/21 25/05/21 (face-to-face) 19/07/21 30/08/21 12/10/21 15/11/21

January 2021

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Fr iday Saturday

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3 4 5 6 7 8 9

10 11

12 13

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15 16

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19 20 Student Free Day

21 Student Free Day

22 Student Free Day

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24 Week 1

25 Student Free Day

26 Australia Day Public Holiday

27 Term 1 Commences O-Week (Wed-Fri)

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February 2021


31 Week 2 Mail week

1

2

3

4 Home Tutor Session 2:30pm

5

6

7 Week 3

8 P&C Meeting

9

10

11 SDE Principals Conference


13

14 Week 4 Mail Week

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18

19

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21 Week 5

22

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27

March 2021


28 Week 6 Mail Week

1

2 Let’s Connect Tablelands Tues-Wed

3

4 Let’s Connect Cairns Thurs-Fri Let’s Connect Online Thurs-Fri Home Tutor session 2:30pm

5

6

7 Week 7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14 Week 8 Mail Week

15 P&C Meeting (Annual General Meeting)

16

17

18 National Close The Gap Day

19 Newsletter cut-off date

20

21 Week 9

22 Instrumental Music Camp Mon-Tues

23

24

25 STEAM Camp Thurs-Fri

26

27

28 Week 10

29

30

31 Term 1 Newsletter Published

1 Last day of Term 1 OLC Community Lunch 11:00am-1:30pm

2 Good Friday Public Holiday

3

April 2021


4 School Holidays Easter Sunday

5 Easter Monday Public Holiday

6 7 8 9

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11

12

13

14

15

16 17

18 Week 1

19 Term 2 Commences

20

21 Let’s Connect Peninsula Wed-Thurs

22

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24

25 Week 2 Mail Week

26 Anzac Day Public Holiday

27

P&C Meeting

28 Let’s Connect Savannah Wed-Thurs

29

30

1

May 2021


2 Week 3

3 Labour Day Public Holiday

4 General Subject Unit 3 Exam Block (Tues-Fri)

5

6

7

8

9 Week 4 Mail Week

10 Start packing Sem 2 Year 11 & 12 resources

11 NAPLAN On paper TBC NAPLAN Online 11— 21 May TBC

12 NAPLAN On paper TBC

13 NAPLAN On paper TBC

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15

16 Week 5

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23 Week 6 Mail Week National Reconcil-iation Week 27 May-3 June

24 P-9 Annual School Camp 10-12 Annual School Camp

25 P-9 Annual School Camp 10-12 Annual School Camp P&C Face-to-Face Meeting

26 P-9 Annual School Camp 10-12 Annual School Camp Biannual Forum National Sorry Day

27 Cultural and Wellbeing Day & NAIDOC Day (combined) 10-12 Annual School Camp SDE Principals Conference Referendum Day

28 Annual Sports Day SDE Principals Conference

29

June 2021


30 Week 7

31 General Subject Unit 1 Exam Block (Mon-Fri)

1

2 3 4 Mabo Day

5

6 Week 8 Mail Week

7

8

9

10

11 Newsletter cut-off date

12

13 Week 9

14 Applied Subject Unit 1 Exam Block (Mon—Fri)

15 16

17 STEAM Camp Thurs-Fri

18

19

20 Week 10 Mail Week

21 Instrumental Music Camp Mon-Tues Applied Subject Unit 3 Exam Block (Mon—Fri)

22

23 Term 2 Newsletter published

24 OLC Community Lunch 11:00am-1:30pm

25 Last day of Term 2

26 C2K Bike Ride 26 June—2 July

27 School Holidays

28 29 30 1 Coming of the Light

2 3

July 2021


4 School Holidays NAIDOC Week 4-11 July

5

6

7

8

9 10

11 Week 1

12 Term 3 Commences

13

14

15 Orientation Hour

16 Cairns Show Public Holiday

17

18 Week 2 Mail Week

19 P&C Meeting

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24

25 Week 3

26

27 Mini School Savannah (Croydon) Tues-Thurs

28

29

30 School Tree Day TBC

31

August 2021


1 Week 4 Mail Week

2 General Subject Unit 4 Exam Block (Mon-Fri)

3 Mini School Tablelands (Mt Garnet) Tues-Thurs

4 National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Children’s Day

5

6

7

8 Week 5 National Science Week (TBC)

9 International Day of Indigenous Peo-ples

10

11

12

13

14

15 Week 6 Mail Week

16 Hospitality in Practice Training Year 11 & 12 Mon—Fri

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22 Week 7

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27

28

29 Week 8 Mail Week

30 P&C Meeting

31

1 Indigenous Litera-cy Day

2

3 Student Free Day Newsletter cut-off date

4

September 2021


5 Week 9

6 DRC check resource packs

7

8

9

10

11

12 Week 10 Mail Week NAPLAN results posted this week

13 Instrumental Music Camp Mon-Tues

14

TBC Mini School Cairns SDE Tues-Thurs

15 Term 3 Newsletter published

16 OLC Community Lunch 11:00am-1:30pm

17 Last day of Term 3

18

19 School Holidays

20

21

22 23

24

25

26

27

28 29 30 1 2

October 2021


3 Week 1

4 Queen’s Birthday Public Holiday

5 Term 4 Commences Mental Health Week (TBC)

6

7

8

9

10 Week 2 Mail Week

11 Hospitality in Practice Year 12 Mon-Wed

12 P&C Meeting

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14

15

16

17 Week 3 Enviroweek TBC

18 Applied Subject Unit 4 Exam Block (Mon—Fri) General Subject Unit 2 Exam Block (Mon-Fri)

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22 World Teachers’ Day (TBC)

23

24 Week 4 Mail Week General Subject External Exams Year 12 (Week 4-Week 7)

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27

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29

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November 2021


31 Week 5

1

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3

4

5

6

7 Week 6

Mail Week

8

9

10

11 SDE Principals Conference Remembrance Day School Ceremony

12 SDE Principals Conference Year 12 resources due to DRC

13

14 Week 7 Book Week

15 P&C Meeting Applied Subject Unit 2 Exam Block (Mon—Fri) Year 10 Exams (Mon-Fri)

16

17 Serving Up Skills Year 12 Graduation Dinner


19 Final day for work returns and assessments Year 12 Last Day

20

21 Week 8 Mail Week

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24

25 Instrumental Music Camp Thurs-Fri OLC Community Lunch 11-1:30pm

26 Year 10 & 11 Last Day Newsletter cut-off date

27

28 Week 9

29 Celebration Week Mon—Fri Swimming Program Mon-Wed Biannual Forum

30

1

2 Presentation Night

3 Sugarworld

4

December 2021


5 Week 10 Mail Week

6 2022 School Calendar Published

7

8 Term 4 newsletter published

9

10 Last Day of School 2021

11

12 School Holidays

13 14

15

16 17 18

19 20 21 22 23 24

25 Christmas Day

26 Boxing Day

27 Christmas Day Public Holiday

28 Boxing Day Public Holiday

29 30

31 New Year’s Eve

1 New Year’s Day

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