ParkSyde Learning
New South Wales
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New South Wales grants home education registration through the Department (Home Schooling). A home visit is part of the process, and a curriculum is mandated.
What New South Wales actually asks of you
Every line below is checked against the Department (Home Schooling)'s own pages and the legislation, not summarised from another state.
- Who decides
- the Department (Home Schooling) — NSW Department of Education
- What you apply for
- home education registration
- Legal basis
- Education Act 1990 (NSW), Part 7 Subdivision 5 'Registration for home schooling' — s71 (application), s72 (registration), s73 (conditions and 2-year maximum duration, tying home schooling to Part 3's minimum curriculum), s74 (cancellation). Registration authority sat with NESA (the NSW Education Standards Authority) until it transferred to the NSW Department of Education on 5 May 2025; NESA remains the syllabus-setting body under the Education Standards Authority Act 2013.
- What you submit first
- educational program
- Ongoing evidence
- records reviewed at the Authorised Person's visit, with work samples
- Visits
- An Authorised Person (a Department inspector or appointed officer) conducts a home visit to assess the proposed program before initial registration, and again at each renewal to review implementation records — the child must be sighted barring exceptional circumstances. Typical time from application to certificate is 7–12 weeks; families are advised to apply about 3 months ahead of their intended start date.
- How long it lasts
- Up to 2 years (statutory maximum); initial grants are often shorter, since delivery records don't yet exist to demonstrate
- Assessed against
- NESA syllabus outcomes — a separate set of codes from Australian Curriculum v9
What the package includes
- The full Prep–12 curriculum — every unit and lesson, all learning areas
- 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 educational program
- A running record you can turn into your records reviewed at the Authorised Person's visit, work samples attached as you go
- Your records ready to show at the visit, without a scramble the week before
- Your child's year translated to the NESA stage and syllabuses your paperwork names
Your child's year, in NESA's words
New South Wales paperwork is organised by stage, not year. This is the published mapping and nothing more — which syllabus outcomes sit inside a stage is a judgement we do not make for you.
| Our year | NESA calls it | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| Prep | Kindergarten | Early Stage 1 |
| Year 1 | Year 1 | Stage 1 |
| Year 2 | Year 2 | Stage 1 |
| Year 3 | Year 3 | Stage 2 |
| Year 4 | Year 4 | Stage 2 |
| Year 5 | Year 5 | Stage 3 |
| Year 6 | Year 6 | Stage 3 |
| Year 7 | Year 7 | Stage 4 |
| Year 8 | Year 8 | Stage 4 |
| Year 9 | Year 9 | Stage 5 |
| Year 10 | Year 10 | Stage 5 |
Where New South Wales differs, in detail
The specifics a product built for one state gets wrong everywhere else.
- NSW legally requires NESA's own syllabus outcomes, not Australian Curriculum v9 content descriptions — ParkSyde's existing 818 AC v9 codes cannot be presented as directly citable in a NSW registration without a real NESA-outcome mapping project; this is a genuinely different scope of work from SA/TAS/NT/ACT.
- The registering authority changed on 5 May 2025 — it is now the NSW Department of Education, not NESA (NESA only sets the syllabuses now). Any older content citing NESA as the registrar is stale.
- NSW's term is 'Authorised Person', not QLD's or NT's terminology — and there is no scheduled periodic report; compliance is demonstrated at the AP's visit, not via a recurring report artefact.
- Registration duration is driven by how much delivery history exists, not a fixed term — a new registration is typically granted for less than the 2-year maximum precisely because there's no track record yet to review.
- Home-schooled NSW students are not eligible for the Record of School Achievement or Higher School Certificate through registration alone — a separate 'HSC by self-tuition' pathway applies, with no QLD equivalent.
- NSW's syllabuses are mid-rollout under a multi-year curriculum reform (2023–2027), and registration policy itself is under active review as of September 2026 — this entry needs re-checking sooner than the others.
Who decides — not us
Home Schooling, NSW Department of Education — NSW Department of Education. +61 2 8340 8510.
ParkSyde is not a school and issues no credential. We teach, and we keep the record. the Department (Home Schooling) decides your registration.
the Department (Home Schooling)— the authority's own page →Checked against primary sources on 2026-09-03. 6 sources on file.
$119 a month for your first learner, $79 for each sibling — the same in every state. The packages differ in the paperwork they produce, not the price.