Frequently Asked Questions

HOME EDUCATE was born in the Northern Rivers in Australia. Our consulting team is comprised of registered teachers in both the primary and secondary sectors, independent educational researchers, and advocates of peak Australian parent groups.

We could see the growing trend of families needing assistance with home school registration and the overwhelm many experienced through the process. We meticulously created the HOME EDUCATE curriculum to support families in their homeschool planning.

Our Learning Plans are designed to be easy to use, creatively interpreted and imaginatively expressed. In other words, our home schooling programs and curriculum is designed to be child-centred, self-directed and community based.

HOME EDUCATE is for the very fast-growing trend of parents interested in homeschooling in Australia. Families and educators alike are more than ever looking for solutions that can best respond to the unique needs of students and families. Our plans offer flexibility, creativity and affordability.

Simply put, HOME EDUCATE is for EVERYONE. All families can benefit from using our home school curriculum during and after the home school registration process. Any parent or guardian that chooses to become the legal educator of their child, are required to register for home education and submit a Learning Plan. The HOME EDUCATE Learning Plan is a resource that values critical thinking, autonomy and creativity.

We invite families on the homeschooling journey (whether it be deschooling, unschooling or world-schooling) to get creative with their individualised detailed planning, schedules and personal interests; to utilise our home school plans in their own unique way.

You can follow our simple steps to home school registration. Each family will then be contacted by a home education assessor from your specific State/Territory home education department. You will need to submit a home school plan before your application is approved. We have carefully curated an inspiring home education plan to get you started.

HOME EDUCATE Learning Plans are available for Years/Grades 1 to 10, covering the 6 to 16-year-old age groups.

Many leading independent educators have documented through extensive research that formal education is best started at 6+. In Australia, children do not need to be legally registered for formal education (either enrolled in school, distance education or officially “homeschooled”) before their 6^th birthday. At HOME EDUCATE, we believe that the general foundation year of school is best spent fostering play and imagination.

We offer two weekly planning templates that can be individualised to suit your family’s needs. We invite families to design a unique weekly home school curriculum that can be flexible, is best suited to their child’s interests and their rate of learning.

If you want a weekly home school schedule planned for you, detailed lesson plans and assessment tasks set and graded – HOME EDUCATE is not the best suited curriculum for you.

Our home schooling programs are clearly designed documents, offering high level support to gain home school registration. Our goal is to inspire you to get creative, when designing your child’s unique learning experiences. With 250+ activities in the Primary years, developmental overviews, resource ideas, themes and a celebration of individual learning paths – HOME EDUCATE is a crucial stepping stone to where you want to be.

Our Secondary learning plans are competitively priced, which allows families to invest in an engaging and thought-provoking curriculum with more money left over for extra-curricular activities with mentors in your community.

The short answer is NO. One of the many hidden benefits of homeschooling is that parents are able to see the progress of their child’s understanding with work samples gathered over time. By documenting your child’s growing knowledge, you will have the “evidence” needed for the Department of Education in your future home school registration renewals (usually around October each year).

There is no definitive one size fits all for homeschooling in Australia. Families have the freedom to explore what scheduling flows best for their needs. In the Primary years, it could look like 2 hours of explicit instruction 3 times a week and extracurricular activities (which could total approximately 9 hours a week).

In Secondary school, this commitment would increase. And remember, allow yourself to be flexible when it comes to your home school plans. Your child may surprise you by finishing their tasks in a relatively short time.

If you have children very close in age (1 year apart), you could potentially submit the same home school plan if they are at the same “stage” which covers a 2-year period. However, bear in mind that each home education plan has a specific age-related developmental overview that is relevant to the year/grade level.

The cost of a single 1-year Primary home school curriculum (Years 1-6) is $65.

Included you will find: inspiring intentions, vision and values, an age-related developmental overview, four easy-to-use term planners (including 250+ activity ideas and links to rich online resources), two individual learning plan templates and an integrated program with a focus on connection and belonging that can be mapped to the Australian curriculum.

The cost of a single 1-year Secondary home school curriculum (Years 7-10) is $115.

Included you will find: inspiring intentions, vision and values, an age-related curriculum overview, interdisciplinary units of work (with links to online resources), easy to use programming (for both parents and teenagers), two individual learning plan templates and an integrated program with a focus on critical thinking and wellbeing that can be mapped to the Australian curriculum.

We believe in the quality of our home school curriculum, particularly its focus on personalised Learning Plans and critical thinking. Our goal is to make home school planning as accessible as possible for parents across Australia.

We are committed to keeping our home school plans up to date to support many homeschooling families in their planning and registration process. Families do not need to purchase a complete curriculum (including lesson plans, detailed units of work and assessment) to become home educators. Our key purpose is to help support you in the registration process for homeschooling in Australia.

YES we can! Email us, to book in a 30-minute consult with our trained educational consultants (registered teachers in Australia) and we will personalise the HOME EDUCATE home school program, based on your family’s needs.

We offer personalised packages ranges from $199 (Primary Years 1-6) to $299 (Secondary Years 7-10).

Our community includes families and educators from across Australia that have taken the leap to out-of-the-box education. We support and see great value in regular commitment to community engagement, experiential learning led by child interests and important relationships fostered with mentors. We highly recommend that extracurricular activities, industry training and group activities be face-to-face and local.

Yes you can! Homeschooling hours can be made up formally and informally in a way that suits your family. Whether this means using specialist mentors, extracurricular activities, community groups or other home school families, we truly believe “it takes a village to raise a child”.

This is an option that is generally not advertised by State and Territory Education Departments. It is best to contact your relevant State/Territory Home Education Office and preferred school and discuss your preferences and the options available.