Reporting

You need to submit a Home Education Report for each registered child once a year. You must do this by 31 December.

The Home Education Report details how your child has progressed:

• intellectually, including their literacy and numeracy skills

• socially and emotionally

• physically.

Your report should include examples of the progress your child has made throughout the year. It is not enough to only list the activities your child did, you must also include the learning (or progress) they made because of the activities.

Reports should include 5-8 examples of progress your child has made in literacy, numeracy, and other learning areas. Other learning areas could include subjects such as Science, History, Geography etc, or interest areas such as coding, gardening or football.

If your child is being home educated part-time, you only need to report on the learning that happens during home education.

As part of your report, you can use a progress report from a commercial provider of home education materials. We may ask you to provide more details if your report does not have all the information we need.

You can choose to use one of our templates as a guide or choose your own format. 

Optional template 1

This template allows you to describe the knowledge and skills your child had at the start of the reporting period and compare that to the knowledge and skills they have at the end of the reporting period.

Optional template 2

This template allows you to describe the learning that happened throughout the reporting period, and how your child went with that learning.

Completed examples of template 2

Below are some completed report examples that you may find useful. The completed examples show the level of detail you should include in your child's report.

Completed example - primary school aged child

Completed example - high school aged child

Completed example - modified program for a child with diverse learning needs

Completed example - modified program for a child focusing on social and emotional learning