AE 1427 - Pete's 2c: What Aussies Do On School Holidays
episodePreviously titled “Pete's 2c - What Aussies Do On School Holidays” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 2, 2026
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
G'day, you mob. How's it going? Welcome to this episode of Pete's Two Cents. I hope you guys are well. It has been a busy few weeks. We had school holidays for a while, which was fun.
What school term and holiday structure do Australian schools follow?
And I thought we would talk about some of the things that we got up to on school holidays, you know, what we do. To keep the kids entertained. It's one of those things. Growing up, you always look forward to school holidays. In Australia, high schools and primary schools have like four terms, usually about 10 weeks in each term. I think the school would start usually around February and then you have 10 weeks, you get a break, another 10 weeks. Well, you'd have a break for Easter. Then the next term, you have a break in winter. That's the one we've just finished. Then you have another term. I think the break is around September, the end of September, maybe the start of October. And then another term and you finish at the start of December for Christmas.
And then you get about six weeks off. So, that tends to be the pattern for primary school and high school terms and holidays. Usually, there's like... three holidays of two weeks throughout the year between the four different terms of ten weeks each. And then over Christmas, there's six or so weeks of holidays over the summer. And you'll notice it's probably quite different from Europe and America in the Northern Hemisphere. I think they, from memory, they have like a spring break type thing where Because the nicer seasons are in the middle of the year, they have their big holiday there. Whereas over Christmas, it's a little shorter. And I think they would have things for Thanksgiving and, you know, whatever other holidays you guys have.
But yeah, that tends to be one of the things people find interesting and different when they come to Australia. The way that the school year starts in... Well, at the end of January, start of February and ends in December, you know, within the... calendar year. So, anyway, yeah. So, we had holidays. And growing up, I was always looking forward to them. I used to love it when I was a kid. You know, obviously, everyone loves it. You're sort of a bit exhausted from school. You've been learning for 10 weeks, you know, doing your maths, doing your English, learning languages, doing sport, whatever it is, socialising like crazy with other kids. And then you get a bit beat, you're a bit tired and you're sort of like, okay, I'm ready for a bit of a break.
Anyway, as a parent, it's a bit of a different thing.
How do parents juggle work and caring for kids during school holidays?
For us now, at least having small kids, two kids at primary school in prep and grade one, the holidays are so busy. I swear to God, guys. Like, when Kel and I first got together and we didn't have kids... We would always be planning events and stuff where it wasn't school holidays so that you could sort of avoid the mayhem. You could avoid all of the crowds and, you know, how busy it is. And if you want to go to a certain tourist attraction or the beach or whatever else, if you do it during school terms, especially during the week when the kids are at school, usually you have these places to yourself. But then come school holidays now with kids, it's like you have to try and constantly come up with things to entertain them.
Otherwise, they're inside just tearing the house apart, getting bored. And so, it just eats up all of your spare time or your workday. So, I was working the whole time during- School holidays, you know, trying to do my private lessons. At the moment, we're rebuilding the website on a slightly different platform to improve things, working on the podcast and other things like that. So, trying to juggle this at the same time as having two kids at home was pretty full on. But we managed, we managed. My wife has one week off usually each term. So, because she works at a music school... And the terms they have mirror the terms that schools have because the kids usually come and get lessons before or after school, I think, probably just after school.
And so, they don't do it on school holidays. And during the holidays, therefore, my wife and the other people that work there have time off.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:13–0:25
2
What school term and holiday structure do Australian schools follow?
0:25–2:42
3
How do parents juggle work and caring for kids during school holidays?
2:42–8:55
4
What simple activities keep young children entertained at home?
8:55–18:57
Speakers
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