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Preparing for registration
Start planning
As a parent, you need to plan and prepare your educational program before your application is assessed. Steps that may assist you include:
- Research:
- contact a support group
- talk to other parents
- consider the resources available to you
- review the requirements.
- Plan your approach:
- identify your child’s individual strengths and needs
- start to prepare your child’s educational program based on NESA syllabuses
- consider the records you will keep
- gather resources
- organise learning spaces.
- Prepare for implementation by gathering:
- records of your child's previous educational history and achievement
- your child’s educational program based on NESA syllabuses
- methods for learning activities
- methods for recording achievement and progress.
Requirements for registration
The requirements to be met for home schooling registration are described in section 4 of the Guidelines for Home Schooling Registration in NSW (the Guidelines).
The requirements for home schooling relate to the educational program for the child. That is, the parent’s teaching and learning plan and records of implementing the educational program.
For registration:
- the child’s educational program must be based on and taught in accordance with the relevant NESA syllabuses as determined by the Education Act 1990 – that is:
- the minimum curriculum for primary education (Kindergarten to Year 6)
- the minimum curriculum for secondary education (Years 7 to 10), or
- the curriculum for senior secondary education (Years 11 and 12)
- the educational program must be suitable to cater for the identified learning needs of the child
- there must be an adequate system for planning, supervising and recording teaching and learning experiences
- there must be an adequate system for recording the child’s progress and achievement
- the time allocated to learning must be sufficient to allow coverage of the curriculum
- the home learning environment must be suitable for effective home schooling
- the identified resources must be adequate to support the child’s learning.
You must keep records of implementing your child's educational program. This is to show:
- how you delivered the program, and
- how you are meeting the requirements for registration.
Change of address
Please note that a child’s certificate of home schooling registration specifies the conditions of registration. One of these conditions is the child’s home address.
If there are changes to a child’s home address during a period registration, you must notify the Home Schooling Unit in writing at homeschooling@nesa.nsw.edu.au. You can also notify us via Home Schooling Online if you have an account.