Registering for home education in Queensland

Check your child can be registered

Children aged at least 5 years and 6 months, and under 19, on 31 December of the year registration starts.

Gather copies of their birth certificate and Medicare card

Add any relevant court orders. Clear copies are fine; you don't need originals or certified copies.

Write your educational program summary

It can cover your child's learning needs and background, your aims for the year, planned activities and how they meet those needs, the learning environment, and how you'll track progress. It doesn't need to include everything you'll do.

Look at QHE's optional templates

Set 3 shows how a program summary can be laid out. You don't have to use it.

Need more time to prepare?

You can ask in writing for a temporary 60-day registration, which doesn't need a program or report. Each child needs their own request.

Complete the Application for Registration for Home Education

Online, or download the form and send it by email or post with your documents.

Sort out school enrolment

Your child can't be enrolled at a school and registered for home education at the same time.

Start teaching

From the day your application is lodged, your child is provisionally registered while QHE decides.

Answer any request for more information quickly

If QHE asks for more, the 90-day decision period starts again once you provide it.

Put your report due date in your calendar

It's in the letter you get when registration is granted. Add a reminder for the ninth month, when reporting opens.

Set up your record keeping

One place for dated work samples, sorted by learning area, and short notes on progress.

Our advice, not a requirement

Use your program summary as your guide

While your child is registered, it's a guide for supporting their learning and monitoring their progress through the year.

Keep collecting dated work samples

A few from each area every month makes the report easy to write.

Our advice, not a requirement

Check progress against your aims each term

A short note on what's going well and what you'll change.

Our advice, not a requirement

Tell QHE if you move

Report a change to your child's usual home address within 28 days, using the change of details form.

Watch for the invitation email

Reporting opens in the ninth month of registration. The email has a unique link that works until the tenth month.

Prepare the three parts

The approved reporting form, a written report on your child's educational progress, and an updated program summary for next year if you're continuing.

Use a computer or tablet

The online form doesn't work on mobile phones. You can also send the form by email or post.

Submit it yourself, on time

Someone can help you prepare it, but the parent has to submit it. The due date can't be extended.