ParkSyde Learning
South Australia
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South Australia grants exemption from school attendance through Home Education unit. A home visit is part of the process, and a curriculum is mandated.
What South Australia actually asks of you
Every line below is checked against Home Education unit's own pages and the legislation, not summarised from another state.
- Who decides
- Home Education unit — Department for Education (South Australia)
- What you apply for
- exemption from school attendance
- Legal basis
- Education and Children's Services Act 2019 (SA), ss 60 & 68(3)(a)(iii) (general compulsory-attendance provisions). SA has no dedicated 'home education' Part — approval is an exemption from the duty to attend school, administered by delegation from the Minister.
- What you submit first
- home education program
- Ongoing evidence
- home education review (annually), with work samples
- Visits
- A home visit is required for the initial application, and again before each renewal. A virtual meeting may substitute at the department's discretion, but the family must remain in SA for it.
- How long it lasts
- Typically 12 months
- Assessed against
- Australian Curriculum v9 — the codes on every ParkSyde unit are the ones your assessor reads
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 South Australia actually asks in that situation.
This authority's registration test is referenced to a curriculum. Your program is expected to be built from it, so the ladder below — where the authority publishes one — is how it accommodates a child who cannot access the outcomes for their year.
We have not yet read this state's published pathways against its authority's own documents, so we are not going to describe them. Your authority is the one to ask, and asking costs you nothing.
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 home education program
- A running record you can turn into your home education review, 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
17 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 17. 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
- Adelaide17 lessons
“Britain founded Australia's colonies as separate coastal settlements: Sydney in 1788, Hobart in 1804, Perth in 1829, Melbourne in 1835 and Adelaide in 1836, with a convict outpost at Brisbane in the mid-1820s and the Darwin town site surveyed in 1869.”
Humanities and Social Sciences · Year 8 · Australia and the United States Compared
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 unit — Department for Education (South Australia). (08) 8226 1327.
ParkSyde is not a school and issues no credential. We teach, and we keep the record. Home Education unit decides your exemption.
Home Education unit — the authority's own page →Checked against primary sources on 2026-09-03. 4 sources on file.
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