Queensland

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Home education in Queensland is a wonderful way to tailor learning to your child’s strengths, interests and pace. 

As a home-educating parent, you’ll design a high-quality educational program, create a nurturing learning environment, and guide your child through a rich year of discovery. 

Home education is available for: 

  • Children aged 5½ to 18 years old by 31 December of the current year 
  • Children living in Queensland 

You don’t need teaching qualifications — just commitment, curiosity, and a willingness to guide your child’s learning. 

Prefer extra support? You may choose to work with a registered teacher, but it’s completely optional.

If you require emergency or short-term home education registration, you can apply for a 60-day provisional registration with Queensland Home Education (QHE). This provides temporary registration without the need to submit an educational program or annual report. 

How to Apply 

Write to QHE by: 

Include: 

  1. A statement that you are applying for a 60-day provisional home education registration for your child. 
  2. Your name (and the second parent's name, if applicable). 
  3. Your child's full name, date of birth and Queensland residential address. 
  4. A statement confirming that your child is not enrolled in a state or non-state school. 
  5. Proof of your child's age and your parental responsibility, usually a birth certificate. 

If you are applying for provisional registration for more than one child, please submit a separate application for each child. 

What Happens Next? 

  • Queensland Home Education will notify you by email confirming your child's provisional registration as soon as possible. This often occurs within a week. 
  • Your child will be provisionally registered for 60 days from the date you receive the confirmation email. 
  • If you decide to continue home education beyond the provisional period, you can submit an application for ongoing home education registration. 
  • Once an application for ongoing home education registration is submitted, your child will be provisionally registered while the application is being assessed. 

Beginning home education in Queensland is a clear, step‑by‑step process. Here’s how to begin your journey:

1. If your child is enrolled at a school, notify the school

Let the school know you are ending your child’s enrolment to register for home education. You may include the Queensland Home Education (QHE) email address so the school can confirm registration directly with them. 

2. Prepare Your Documents

You’ll need: 

  • Your child’s birth certificate or identity document 
  • Medicare card (
  • Any relevant Court Orders
  • A Education Program Summary for the coming 12 months 

3. Create Your Educational Program 

  • Your child’s educational program is an overview of the high-quality learning you will provide throughout the year.
  • Your plan doesn’t need to include everything that you intend to do over the year. It’s a summary of how you will support your child’s learning.   

It should include: 

  • Your child’s strengths, interests, needs, and any learning challenges. 
  • The learning areas you will cover. 
  • Your learning goals for the year, including your child’s goals if appropriate. 
  • The activities, topics, and experiences you have planned. 
  • How these activities support your child’s learning needs. 
  • The resources and materials you will use. 
  • How the learning environment supports learning and wellbeing. 
  • How you will monitor, record, and respond to your child’s progress. 

The QHE provides optional templates to help you get started. 

If you need help writing an Educational Plan, you can purchase a registration document from Simply Homeschool.

4. Submit Your Application – with supporting documents 

Once the QHE receives your application, your child is granted provisional registration, and you can begin learning at home immediately. By law, QHE has 90 days to decide home education registration applications. While they aim to process applications as soon as possible before this deadline, in some cases it may take the full 90 days to finalise an application. 

Your program must: 

  • Cover the required learning areas 
  • Include planned learning experiences and assessment 
  • Be tailored to your child’s age, ability, and interests 

You can choose: 

  • A self‑designed program, or 
  • A commercial curriculum, such as Simply Homeschool 
Simply Homeschool provides ready-to-use learning pathways and flexible planning tools designed to help families meet home education requirements while creating a homeschool journey that suits their child.
 

Throughout the year, you’ll collect evidence of your child’s progress. This might include: 

  • Written work 
  • Photos or videos 
  • Projects and creative work 
  • Learning journals 
  • Reading logs 
  • Notes from discussions or hands‑on activities 

Home education registration in Queensland lasts 12 months. 

To continue, you must submit an Annual Report before your renewal date. This report demonstrates: 

  • What learning occurred 
  • Evidence of progress 
  • Achievements and next steps 

You can apply for registration at any time of year, and your renewal date will be 12 months from the date of approval. The QHE provides optional templates, including a Year in Review, to guide you. 

For children in the senior phase of learning, parents have the flexibility to design a pathway that suits their child’s goals. 

The QHE can support pathways into: 

  • Further education 
  • Trades and training 
  • Employment 
  • School‑based apprenticeships or traineeships 
  • TAFE at School courses 
  • Work experience programs 

For more details, visit the Senior Secondary Pathways section on the QHE website.

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