Under Regulation 8(5) of the Education (When State Schools Must Be Open and Closed) Regulations 2024, I specify the following circumstances in which Boards may close their schools in 2025 for curriculum related purposes. Boards may only close for four half days in total for these purposes.

For schools and kura covering Years 0–8, the closures must be for the purpose of staff participating in maths or pāngarau professional learning and development.

For schools and kura covering Years 9–13:

• the closures for two half days must be for the purpose of staff participating in curriculum and assessment related activities
• the closures for two half days must be for the purpose of staff participating in activities to prepare for implementation of the English, Te Reo Rangatira, Maths and Pāngarau curricula in 2026; and these closures may only occur in Term 4 2025.

For all closures, parents and caregivers must have been given at least six weeks’ prior notice of the closure.

Schools and kura that have some students in Years 0–8 and some students in Years 9–13 may only close for four half days in total for curriculum related matters during 2025.

Under Regulation 9(1) of the Education (When State Schools Must Be Open and Closed) Regulations 2024, I am also authorising schools and kura to close for four fewer half-days in 2025 for the purposes of the delivery of the curriculum days.

This notice revokes and replaces “Maths and Pāngarau Curriculum days for 2025 | Ko ngā rā mō te marautanga Maths me te Pāngarau mō te tau 2025” notified in the New Zealand Gazette, 24 October 2024, Notice No. 2024-sl5125.

This notice is secondary legislation for the purposes of the Legislation Act 2019.

This notice was made on the 12th day of December 2024.

Hon ERICA STANFORD, Minister of Education.