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Nelson Mandela Day is an internationally celebrated day that is a really important and much loved day here in South Africa but also throughout the world.

Mandela Day is celebrated every year on the 18th of July, Nelson Mandelas birthday! It was officially declared by the UN in 2009 shortly after the famous 46664 concert.

With the much-anticipated Olympic and Paralympic Games now taking place soon, we have several resources for you to get stuck into from Purple Mash and Striver, our PE and wellbeing platform.

World Environment Day is celebrated every year on the 5th June and is run and organised by the United Nations to raise awareness of our planet and the environment. This year the theme is #GenerationRestoration'.

To celebrate #GenerationRestoration, we have several resources you can use on Purple Mash.

On World Ocean Day, 8th June, people around our blue planet will be coming together to celebrate and honour our ocean. The ocean connects us all, between countries and across the world and by working together, we must protect and restore our oceans. The theme this year is The Ocean: Life and Livelihoods.

To celebrate World Oceans Day on Purple Mash, we have several resources you can use.

We are celebrating our nurses, and the hard work of all the front line workers as we celebrate International Nurses Day on the 12t of May. One of the first pioneers of Nursing was Florence Nightingale who was born on the 12th May 1820, on the 200th anniversary of her birth, the work Florence Nightingale did resonates with us now more than ever. Florences ideas and actions changed nursing forever.