From the first year of school to Year 10, every year already written
For your home-educating family: the Australian Curriculum learning areas, sequenced year after year, then 6 senior starter units in each of Years 11 and 12 (no certificate). Your guest moves through it at their own pace, you stay the educator, and the dated learning record your registrar asks for builds as they learn. Not a school: registration stays with you. Start free, and pay only when you're ready.
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Price list: first child $119 a month or $1190 a year (two months free); each extra child $79 a month ($790/year).
What your family gets
2,241 lessons, about 2,230 hours, across 13 year levels from Prep to Year 12. Each one is whole: explicit teaching with a worked example, practice together with hints, a check that names the misunderstanding behind a wrong answer, a task your guest chooses, and a look back. You choose which ones and when. See what's there for your guest's year
- Every unit and lesson, Prep to Year 10, plus the Year 11 and 12 starter units
- Progressive Diagnostics with strand-level tailoring
- Region-adapted to your state's home-education process and record-keeping
- Choice tasks marked against each learner's interests — interest never sets the level
- Parent Hub, and a dated learning record that prints as a document
- A professional Learning Start consultation each year — registered teacher, counsellor or psychologist
- Family account: every sibling, every device, synced
Every plan includes a Learning Start consultation, offered to families in every state and territory, with a parent or carer there for it. We book them in the order families join, a few each week, so yours may come a little after you start — the lessons are yours from the first day. If a state's rules ever change how we deliver it, we'll tell you before your session.
Try a real lesson, free
What Makes a Number Even?
Year 4 Mathematics. The whole lesson, no account needed.
See a sample learning record
What your registrar would see
Built the same way as your guest's, for a made-up Year 4 learner.
Not ready to pay? Start free.
The first lesson of all 486 units is free, in full, at every year level. No account, no card.
Why it costs this, and where the money goes
Why this price — the maths, openly
Curriculum platforms
Leading curriculum-only programs cost roughly $565–674/year — lessons and materials, but no professionals and no tailoring engine.
Professional support
One session with a psychologist, counsellor or specialist teacher is around $200 — and most families never book one because of the cost. Your Learning Start consultation is included every year. Further sessions with our registered psychologist are a separate service — see psychology and assessment fees.
ParkSyde Family
$1190/year covers both — the adaptive curriculum and the professional support.
Where the money goes
ParkSyde Life is a company, not a charity, and we are not going to call ourselves one because it sounds better. What that means in practice is plain enough to write down: fees pay the people doing the work and the cost of running the platform, and what is left goes back into repairing, building and maintaining the place — another service, another room, another thing this community did not have last year.
It is on this page because you are entitled to know what you are funding. It is not a reason to choose us, and we are not asking you to treat it as one.
💰 Government help: what's real, and how to get it
The honest picture first
Australia has no general payment for choosing to home educate. But many ParkSyde families do qualify for real support — and we help you claim it.
Home education also doesn't affect your usual Family Tax Benefit, and NDIS plans can fund disability-related learning supports (not tuition itself).
Assistance for Isolated Children (AIC) — rates vary by circumstance
A non-taxable Centrelink payment for children who can't attend a local government school because of geographic isolation, or a disability, medical or additional need that makes school unsuitable. The test is specific: choosing to home educate does not by itself qualify a family, but some households do meet the criteria without realising — it costs nothing to check.
Claims on disability/medical grounds need supporting documentation from a professional. Where a clinical assessment supports it, we can provide that documentation — always on professional judgement, never written to order, and never a promise of a particular outcome. Your included Learning Start consultation is where to raise it; the clinical assessment itself is a further session. Check eligibility at Services Australia or call the AIC line on 132 318.
General information only, not financial or legal advice. Payment rates and rules change — always confirm current eligibility and amounts with Services Australia. ParkSyde can supply clinical documentation where it is professionally warranted; Services Australia alone decides claims, and no outcome is guaranteed.
Questions about pricing or funding? Ask us in the Support Hub.