List of NSW School Holidays 2025. Here you can see List of NSW School holidays 2025. The information below is relevant to NSW state schools. Independent and Catholic schools are based on state shoulder mills, but their dates may vary from school to school. You should check directly with the appropriate school to find out the correct term date information.
In NSW term data are broken into Eastern Division and Western Division. The term data for both divisions are the same except for Term 1.
School staff usually return between 1-2 days before students without the 4th semester, where they return on the same day as the students. The student vacation pages are as shown in the following table.
NSW School Holidays 2025
Period | Start | Finish | Length |
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Term 1 – Eastern Division | Monday, 30 January 2025 | Friday, 07 April 2025 | 10 weeks |
Term 1 – Western Division | Monday, 06 February 2025 | Friday, 07 April 2025 | 9 weeks |
School Holidays | Saturday 8 April 2025 | Tuesday 25 April 2025 | |
Term 2 | Wednesday, 26 April 2025 | Friday, 30 June 2025 | 9 1/2 weeks |
School Holidays | Saturday 1 July 2025 | Monday 17 July 2025 | |
Term 3 | Tuesday, 18 July 2025 | Friday, 22 September 2025 | 9 1/2 weeks |
School Holidays | Saturday 23 September 2025 | Sunday 8 October 2025 | |
Term 4* | Monday, 09 October 2025 | Friday, 15 December 2025 | 10 weeks |
School Holidays – Western Division | Saturday 16 December 2025 | Monday, 5 February 2025 | |
School Holidays – Eastern Division | Saturday, 16 December 2025 | Monday, 29 January 2025 |