Academic Calendar 2021-2022
122nd Academic Year
Holton-Arms is a non-sectarian school that values the rich diversity of our community. The School encourages its members to honor their religious commitments that fall on school days. For that reason, all absences for religious observance are automatically recorded as excused. Holton asks students to communicate their needs openly and expects faculty to support students and their religious beliefs and practices. (For more information please see the Student Handbook).
The calendar below was developed in collaboration with the Director of Diversity, Wellbeing, and Global Education, the Assistant Director of Lower School, the Vice President of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for the Parents Association, and the Common Threads Parent/Guardian Affinity Groups. It includes major religious/non-religious observances of members of our Holton community.
The Holton Community Calendar
| AUGUST 2021 | |
| M 22 | US Athletics Pre-season Begins |
| SEPTEMBER | |
| M 5 | Labor Day (school Closed) |
| T 6 | First Day of School & Convocation |
| W 14 | US Back-to-School Night |
| W 21 | MS Back-to-School Night |
| Th 9 | US Back-to-School Night |
| M 26 | Rosh Hashannah (school closed) |
| W 28 | LS Back-to-School Night |
| OCTOBER | |
| W 5 | Yom Kippur (school closed) |
| M 10 | Fall Break (school closed) |
| NOVEMBER | |
| Th & F 10&11 |
Parent-Teacher Conferences (US attends) |
| T 23 |
Dismissal for Break (3:30 p.m.) |
| 23-25 | Thanksgiving Break (school closed) |
| M 28 | Professional day (no classes) |
| DECEMBER | |
| F 16 | Dismissal for Break (3:30 p.m.) |
| 19-1/2 | Winter Break (school closed) |
| JANUARY 2022 | |
| T 3 | Classes Resume |
| M 16 | Martin Luther King Jr. Day (campus closed) |
| T 17 | LS Applicant Visit Day (no LS classes) |
| FEBRUARY | |
| F 17 | Professional Day (no classes) |
| M 20 | Presidents Day (school closed) |
| MARCH | |
| Th & F 2&3 |
LS/MS Parent-Teacher Conferences (no classes) |
| Th 23 | Asynchronous Day |
| 24-4/3 | Spring Break (Offices open 3/24; school closed 27-4/3) |
| APRIL | |
| T 4 | Classes Resume |
| F 14 | Asynchronous Day |
| F 21 | Eid al-Fatr (school closed) |
| MAY | |
| F 26 | All-School noon dismissal |
| M 29 | Memorial Day (school closed) |
| JUNE | |
| T 6 | All-school Closing, Noon Dismissal for Summer Break |
| W 7 | Gr 12 Commencement Rehearsal |
| T 8 | Commencement |
August 2022:
08/07 - Day of Ashura (The Day of Ashura is the 10th day of Muharram)
08/09 - International Day of the World’s Indigenous People (created by the UN)
08/18-08/19 - Janmashtami (annual Hindu festival that celebrates the birth of Lord Krishna)
08/24-08/21 - Paryushan Mahaparva (8 day Jain festival of reflection and seeking forgiveness for one's sins)
08/26 - Women’s Equality Day (celebrates the day white women gained the right to vote)
08/31 - Ganesh Chaturthi (celebrates the birth anniversary of Lord Ganesh)
September 2022:
National Recovery Month (This month helps to educate all Americans on treatment and mental health services for those with substance use disorder)
Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15)
09/22 - Autumnal Equinox
09/25-09/27 - Rosh Hashanah
October 2022:
LGBTQIA+ History Month
Global Diversity Awareness Month
Breast Cancer Awareness Month
10/04-10/05 - Yom Kippur
10/09 - Eid Milad un-Nabi (marks the birth anniversary of the Prophet Muhummad)
10/09-10/16 - Sukkot
10/10 - World Mental Health Day
10/10 - Indigenous Peoples’ Day
10/11 - National Coming Out Day
10/11 - International Day of the Girl Child
10/16 - Birth of the Báb
10/17 - Birth of Bahá’u’lláh
10/19 - International Pronouns Day
10/21 - Spirit Day (LGBTQIA+ youth speak out against bullying)
10/24 - Diwali
10/26-10/27 - Twin Holy Birthdays (celebrate the births of two central figures in the Bahá’í faith: the Báb and Bahá’u’lláh)
November 2022:
Native American Heritage Month
11/01-11/02 - Día de los Muertos
11/16 - International Day for Tolerance
11/20 - Transgender Day of Rememberance
11/24 - Thanksgiving
11/26 - Day of the Covenant (commemorating Bahá’u’lláh’s appointment of His son, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, as the One to whom His followers should turn after His passing)
11/28 - Ascension of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá (commemorates the life and death of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, eldest son and successor of Bahá’u’lláh, founder of the Bahá’í faith)
December 2022:
12/01 - World AIDs Day
12/08 - Secular Bodhi Day (celebrates the day the “Historic Buddha”, aka Siddhartha Gautama, Sakyamuni Buddha, achieved enlightenment)
12/10 - International Human Rights Day
12/18-12/26 - Hanukkah
12/21 - Winter Solstice
12/25 - Christmas Day
12/26-01/01 - Kwanzaa
January 2023:
01/01 - New Year’s Day
01/06 - Feast of the Epiphany
01/07 - Mahayana New Year
01/14 - Makar Sankranti
01/16 - Martin Luther King Day
01/17 - International Day of Racial Healing
01/19 - Shitalnath Janma Tapa (Jain)
01/22 - Lunar New Year
01/25 - Vasant Panchami
01/27 - International Holocaust Remembrance Day
01/27 - Maryada Mahotsava (Jain)
February:
Black History Month
02/01-02/02 - Imbolc
02/02 - Candlemas
02/04 - Shri Jitendra Rath Yatra (Jain)
02/05-02/06 - Tu B’Shvat
02/18 - Lailat al Miraj
02/18 - Maha Shivaratri
02/20 - President’s Day
02/21 - Mardi Gras
02/21 - Tibetan New Year (Losar)
02/23 - Ash Wednesday
02/25-03/01 - Ayyám-i-Há
March:
National Women’s History Month
Developmental Disability Month
03/06-03/07 - Purim
03/07-03/08 - Shab-e-Barat
03/08 - Holi
03/08 - International Women’s Day
03/20 - Ostara
03/21 - Naw-Rúz (The Bahá’í New Year)
03/21-03/22 - Nowruz/Persian New Year
03/22-03/29 - Chaitra Navratri
03/22-04/21 - Ramadan
03/31 - International Transgender Day of Visibility
April:
Autism Awareness Month
National Arab Heritage Month
04/02 - World Autism Awareness Day
04/04 - Mahavir Jayanti (Jain)
04/05-04/13 - Passover
04/07 - Good Friday
04/08 - Vesak
04/09 - Easter
04/14 - National Day of Silence
04/14 - Vaisakhi
04/16 - Orthodox Easter Sunday
04/17-04/18 - Yom HaShoah/Holocaust Rememberance Day
04/18 - Laylat al-Qadr, 27th Day of Ramadan
04/21 - First Day of Ridván
04/21-04/22 - Eid al-Fitr
04/22 - Earth Day
04/27-04/29 - Gathering of Nations (more than 500 Native tribes meet and celebrate various traditions and cultures)
04/29 - Ninth Day of Ridván
May:
AAPI Heritage Month
Jewish American Heritage Month
Mental Health Awareness Month
05/01 - Beltane
05/02 - Twelfth Day of Ridván
05/05 - Cinco de Mayo/Anniversary of the Battle of Puebla
05/05 - Wesak/Buddha Day/Visakha Puja
05/17 - International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia
05/24 - Declaration of the Báb
05/25-05/27 - Shavuot
05/29 - Ascension of Bahá’u’lláh
June:
LGBTQIA Pride Month
Immigrant Heritage Month
Caribbean American Heritage Month
06/04 - Parinirvana
06/19 - Juneteenth
06/20 - Juneteenth Observed
06/21 - Summer Solstice (Litha)
06/26-07/01 - Hajj (Pilgrimage to Mecca)
July:
07/10 - Martyrdom of the Báb
07/14 - International Non-binary Peoples Day