HEU Registration and Plan Requirements
Registration with the Home Education Unit (HEU) is a simple online form here Register a child for home education (or you can print and mail, or email the form) with details about you and your child.
You MUST cancel your school enrolment via email eg “Please cancel {my child’s name} enrolment as of today {insert date}. They are now registered for Home Education with the Home Education Unit, thank you”, BEFORE you apply to HEU as you are immediately registered, once you provided the application, as all parents have a legal right to home educate their children.
Or there is a Temporary 60 Days Only Registration, which you request via email more details here (link to 60 days FAQ).
HEU needs some documentation to show you are the parent/guardian of your child eg Birth Certificate, marriage certificate or other.
HEU want a 1 year Plan/Program that shows you as the parent are a capable educator. HEU has some guidelines about what is needed to show “high quality learning”.
You don’t have to stick to your Plan or follow it. Come Report time (10 months from registration, same date each year), you then share with HEU what you did do and how that worked better for your child. And provide a new Plan for the year to come.
Watch this FREE VIDEO all on Plan writing https://tinyurl.com/QldPlansandReports
Do add their 4 Emails to your contact list to not miss their communications: LIST
The Plan needs some specific information to be easily approved. The headings and information to include are:
- GOALS – 4 minimum Short Term (1 year) and 4 long Term goals (2-5 years)
- OVERVIEW about your child – detail academic and personal history about their abilities and challenges compared to peers. They want to see that YOU know where your child is at or that you will find out.
- LEARNING STYLE – of your child. See here for more – FAQ LS
- TEACHING STRATEGIES -relevant to your child and you as per their learning style. eg short lessons to keep attention, a quiet environment, repetition etc See here for more details – faq TS
- SOCIALISATION opportunities – a sentence or 2 about who they will engage with or their needs right now. HEU want to read how you are strengthening friendships and creating a peer group for your child.
- PHYSICAL LEARNING AREA – desk, internet, books, stationery, air con etc.
- SUBJECTS/Learning Areas – at least 5 (covering English, Maths, Science, HASS, HPE minimum) – with goals and how you will meet them – use doing words to explain how you will meet those goals. Eg we will make /create /read /investigate…
- RESOURCES – for each learning area – be specific where able. To provide a high quality education you should include a range of activities, resources and outings etc.
- RECORDING/ASSESSMENT – a sentence or 2 that states how you will note your observations in a learning diary, keep work and date things.
HEU’s webpage about Reporting is Here