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Category Archives: Australian Schools Calendar


Observance - Vietnam Veterans’ Day, 18 August

August 8, 2008 – 5:28 pm

The Australian Government Culture and Recreation Portal newsletter reminded me today that in 10 days time we observe Vietnam Veterans’ Day.
Vietnam Veterans’ Day, celebrated in Australia on 18 August each year, commemorates the Battle of Long Tan and those Australians who served during the Vietnam War and is an opportunity to remember those who did […]

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Observances - Hiroshima Day

August 6, 2008 – 12:01 pm

Today is a day I try never to forget.
Why should an event that happened before I was born be one that figures annually in my consciousness?
6 August 1945 was the day that we, the western world, Australia as guilty as the rest, attempted to end the war in the Pacific by dropping an atomic bomb […]

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World Population Day, 11 July 2008

July 9, 2008 – 10:15 am

The focus of World Population Day 2008 is family planning: PLAN YOUR FUTURE, PLAN YOUR FAMILY.
The slogan on the UNFPA site says Plan to beat poverty. Plan to gain equality. Plan to beat maternal death. Forty years after world leaders declared in 1968 that individuals have a basic human right to determine freely and responsibly […]

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How will you celebrate May Day?

April 28, 2008 – 3:13 pm

May Day, held on 1 May, is claimed as the birth of the international labour movement in 1890. Marches and rallies on May Day celebrate a vision of a fairer, just, and more sustainable world.
Centuries before that of course May Day was celebrated as the first day of summer in the northern hemisphere, with traditional […]

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Anzac Day, 25 April

April 14, 2008 – 5:09 pm

Anzac Day in Australia and New Zealand is a national day of commemoration. A public holiday occurs on the day of the landing at Gallipoli in 1915, the day that some historians have called our “baptism by fire”.
The day begins with dawn services throughout the country, and continues throughout the day with marches through town […]

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Why Leap Year?

February 28, 2008 – 11:47 am

In educational terms, our Leap Year system is the result of a scientific, astrological problem, and serves to show the influence of scientific thinking on our daily lives.
It is the perfect illustration of how a day, recorded on the edna’s School’s Calendar, might result in the investigation of topical science, history, maths, social science, and […]

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Finding things to celebrate in 2008

January 14, 2008 – 11:04 am

The Calendar for Australian schools has been produced by edna for the last 7 years. It was created in late 2001 and made available in 2002 as an online calendar. Since 2003 it has been available as a wall calendar, and for the last two years it has been double sided. The original purpose of […]

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