ParkSyde Learning
Australian Capital Territory
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Australian Capital Territory grants home education registration through Home Education (ACT). A meeting with an authorised person applies, and no curriculum is mandated.
What Australian Capital Territory actually asks of you
Every line below is checked against Home Education (ACT)'s own pages and the legislation, not summarised from another state.
- Who decides
- Home Education (ACT) — ACT Education Directorate
- What you apply for
- home education registration
- Legal basis
- Education Act 2004 (ACT), Chapter 5 'Home education' — s131 (registration), s132 (conditions), s134 (period), s135 (cancellation), s137 (renewal), s138 (reports); Education Regulation 2005 (ACT) Part 4, ss 7–11.
- What you submit first
- Statement of Intent
- Ongoing evidence
- Home Education Report (annually), with work samples
- Visits
- No home visit as standard practice ('we do not visit you at home'). A meeting with an authorised person is required within 3 months of a new registration, and may be requested at renewal.
- How long it lasts
- Up to 2 years
- Assessed against
- Australian Curriculum v9 — if you choose to use it. This authority mandates no curriculum, so our codes are a convenience here, not a requirement.
If your guest isn't working at year level
Most families who home educate are doing it because school stopped working, and a great many are doing it for a child who would not manage a set task today. This is what Australian Capital Territory actually asks in that situation.
This authority's registration test is referenced to your guest's needs, not to a year level. A program is judged on whether it is high quality and meets those needs, so there is no year-level standard to fall short of.
A high-quality education that meets your child's needs
Registration commits a parent to provide a high-quality education for the child, to document the educational opportunities offered, and to document the strategies used to encourage the child to learn — a documentation duty about approach rather than coverage. The Directorate names meeting the needs of a child who may need more support or individual attention among the reasons families choose home education. Registration runs up to 2 years, and a shorter period can be requested.
ACT Government, Home education (home schooling) (act.gov.au), read 23 Sep 2026.
What the package includes
- The full curriculum — every unit and lesson, every learning area, Prep to Year 10, plus senior starter units
- Progressive Diagnostics with strand-level tailoring for each child
- A professional Learning Start consultation each year
- Family account: every sibling, every device, synced
- Evidence shaped for your Statement of Intent
- A running record you can turn into your Home Education Report, work samples attached as you go
- Your records ready to show at the visit, without a scramble the week before
Places near you that the lessons already visit
25 lessons name a place in your state, across 1 place. Every line below is the lesson's own sentence, not a description we wrote for this page.
Said plainly: the curriculum was written in Queensland, and that state is named in 155 lessons against your 25. The teaching does not change with your postcode — the units, the outcomes and the checks are identical — but the examples are not evenly spread yet, and you should hear that from us rather than notice it in term two.
Made
- Canberra25 lessons
“In 1946 and 1947, Sidney Nolan painted the black square-helmeted figure of Ned Kelly across a series of twenty-seven paintings — now among the most famous images in Australian art, most of them held by the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra.”
The Arts · Year 6 · Drafts, Feedback and Productive Failure
This list is the ordinary geography a lesson happens to name — a bay, a basin, a range, a town. It leaves out the places in your state whose significance is Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage. Those are taught in the lessons that teach them, in those lessons' own words, and they are not ours to list as scenery.
Who decides — not us
Home Education, Education Directorate — ACT Education Directorate. 02 6205 5429 (option 3).
ParkSyde is not a school and issues no credential. We teach, and we keep the record. Home Education (ACT) decides your registration.
Home Education (ACT) — the authority's own page →Checked against primary sources on 2026-09-03. 3 sources on file.
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