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Encyclopedia > Schoolies

Schoolies can mean:

Skoolies or sometimes Schoolies, people who convert School Busses into Recreational vehicles (or the vehicles themselves)
Schoolies Week, the Australian high-school graduate tradition.

This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an internal link referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.

Category: Disambiguation Skoolies or Schoolies refers to people who convert School busses into Recreational vehicles, or to the converted busses themselves. ... A new 1973 Wayne Lifeguard school bus won in national contest for safety ideas is presented to winning driver, Mrs. ... Recreational Vehicle (or RV) is a term used in North America to describe a large enclosed piece of equipment with wheels designed to be moved from place to place for people to temporarily live in and be protected from the elements while away from their permanent home. ... Schoolies or Schoolies week (known as Leavers or Leavers week in Western Australia) refers to the Australian tradition of high-school graduates (known as Schoolies) having week-long holidays following the end of their final exams in late November and early December. ...

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Schoolies Week - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (472 words)
	Schoolies or Schoolies week (known as Leavers or Leavers week in Western Australia) refers to the Australian tradition of high-school graduates (known as "Schoolies") having week-long holidays following the end of their final exams in late November and early December.
	Schoolies from South Australia have similar traditions at Victor Harbor, while in Victoria the Surf Coast is popular, mainly consisting of Lorne and Torquay, in Western Australia Rottnest Island off Perth and the South West towns of Dunsborough and Busselton are popular destinations.
	The rough cultural equivalent of schoolies in the United States and Canada would be spring break or senior week.

Schoolies Week News (1543 words)
	More than 20,000 schoolies from Victoria and NSW are celebrating in Surfers Paradise, and some pharmacists are fed up with the dozens of 17 and 18-year-olds walking through their doors every day.
	Today schoolies pay $31.95 for the pill, which is at least $20 less than the cost of seeing a doctor.
	But she said the popularity of the morning-after pill among schoolies was a positive sign teenagers were looking after themselves.

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