School attendance during the approval period

February 16, 2018

Victorian law requires children to attend school OR be registered for home education. While awaiting registration approval, school attendance is required. However, there is provision for non-attendance set out under section 2.1.3 of The Education and Training Reform Act (details here) e.g. for illness, accident etc suspension/expulsion child’s disobedience the parent has provided a reason to the principal and the principal accepts that reason.

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Media Roundup

January 30, 2018

2022 Home schooling reaches record high in South Australia as families respond to COVID-19 disruptions – by Rebecca Puddy, ABC News, February 14 Transition to homeschooling – Interview with Kirsty J, Jonathon Kendall, ABC Radio Mornings, February 3 2021 Sport climbing becomes newest Olympic sport, Aussie teen Oceana Mackenzie set to compete, ABC News 16 July (the article doesn’t mention it but Oceana was

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Anything is Possible

January 19, 2018

How to Run Your Next Home Ed Camp or Excursion By Colita Scott Home education camps and events are all about giving your children an experience to remember. For me, the best parts of school were the school camps and excursions. A lot of home educated kids feel the same way. Too many new home educating families ask me ‘so what’s available for my

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Guide to Home Education in Victoria

January 10, 2018

The updated Guide to Home Education in Victoria is now available in Word of PDF. [gview file=”https://home-ed.vic.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/GuideToHomeEducationinVictoria-2018.pdf”]

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Dear New Home Educator

January 10, 2018

Dear New Home Educator, Congratulations on your decision to educate your children from home. You’ve borrowed a pile of books from the library and scoured the internet for advice; you may have bought some supplies already. Great…except that every ‘expert’ seems to recommend different things and now you feel overwhelmed by the choices. Right? Relax, you’ll be home educating YOUR children YOUR way and

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The effectiveness of HEN

January 3, 2018

HEN has a long and proud history of standing up for home educators’ rights in Victoria. Documents obtained under Freedom of Information during our regulations campaign confirm HEN’s continued advocacy has been very effective in keeping legal requirements reasonable over the years. Amongst reasons noted for the lower regulation in Victoria compared to other states is: Homeschooling advocates have been influential in their resistance to any moves

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Come Sail With Us

December 18, 2017

By Anne Hall Our family became involved with Sailability four years ago after seeing a HEN advertisement. Teenagers were wanted to go out to the glorious Lysterfield Lake Friday mornings and try their hand at sailing aiming to take people who needed assistance out on the lake for a sail. Sailability organisations are not-for-profit, volunteer-based and, through the activity of sailing, enrich the lives

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Fulfilling the 8 Key Learning Areas

November 26, 2017

By Bekah Carman In Victoria we are required to provide “regular and efficient instruction that taken as a whole, substantially addresses the [8 key] learning areas”.  I recently released a post that discussed the value of looking at the Victorian Curriculum in order to figure out how to fulfil the requirements of teaching to the Key Learning Areas (KLAs).  As discussed in that post,

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Should you look at the Victorian Curriculum?

November 13, 2017

By Bekah Carman In Victoria we are required to provide “regular and efficient instruction that taken as a whole, substantially addresses the [8 key] learning areas”.  These learning areas, which we call the KLAs, are English, Maths, Science, Technology, Languages (other than English), Arts, Health and PE, and Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS).  The problem with the requirement to instruct in the 8 KLAs

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Unschooling is not Unparenting

November 6, 2017

By Sue Wight Something odd is happening in the world of unschooling. Sarah has heard that if her children want chocolate biscuits for breakfast, they will eat a balanced diet over time without well-meaning interference from her. Meanwhile, she’s struggling to buy enough chocolate biscuits to keep up with them and is torn between her concerns about nutrition and a reluctance to impose restrictions

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Learning by Immersion

October 14, 2017

By Sue Wight We all learnt to speak via the immersion method. Babies become aware of vocal patterns and connect them with visual cues from facial expressions and body language and are on their way to cracking the code of their mother tongue. The process is driven by the desire to understand, to communicate, to be part of the group. Watching babies and toddlers

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