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What Queensland needs

Last checked: 5 October 2026. We read every official page linked below on that date.

This is not legal advice. It's general information to help you see how AHH's tools fit with what Queensland asks for. Queensland Home Education (QHE) decides whether your child is registered and whether your report is accepted. Check with QHE, and read the official pages linked below, before you act.

What this page is for

This page goes through what Queensland officially asks home-educating families to do and shows which AHH tools can help with each part. It doesn't explain how to register.

AHH tools help you plan, keep records and show your child's progress. They don't register you. They don't speak for QHE, and they can't promise QHE will accept a plan or a report. QHE makes that decision.

1. A summary of your educational program when you apply

What Queensland asks. To apply for ongoing registration, you send in a summary of the educational program you will use. QHE describes this as your plan for your child's learning in the coming year. QHE says the plan could:

  • give background on your child's learning needs and past experience
  • set out your aims or goals for the year
  • summarise the activities and topics you have planned
  • explain why those activities suit your child
  • describe your learning environment
  • say how you will keep track of your child's progress and respond to it

QHE also says the plan doesn't need to include everything you'll do in the year. You can write it yourself, work with a registered teacher, or buy a program. QHE publishes optional examples built three ways: goal-directed, thematic, and based on the Australian Curriculum.

Official sources

How AHH can help

  • Plan Builder (opens in a new tab) (free) helps you set out a learning plan for Queensland and export it as a PDF. Read it through and make it about your own child before you send it.
  • Wattlewood Year Packs (Maths, English, Science and Geography, for Year 1-2, Year 3-4 and Year 5-6) give you real topics and resource names for the "activities and topics" part of your plan. If you base your program on the Australian Curriculum, each pack follows Australian Curriculum v9.0. Your plan should still explain how the work suits your child.
  • Where to start check (free) gives a private suggestion of a starting level in Maths and English for Years 1-6. It can help you describe where your child is up to right now.
  • Registration Pack (opens in a new tab) (free) puts your learning plan, certificates and residency evidence together into one PDF.
  • Home Education Getting Started Checklist (opens in a new tab) (free) is a checklist for families new to home education.

2. Making sure your child receives a high-quality education

What Queensland asks. It's a standard condition of registration that parents make sure their child receives a high-quality education. QHE reads your planned learning to check it is "positive, supportive" and aims to meet your child's needs. At report time, QHE also checks that the coming year's program is updated to suit your child's age, ability and aptitude.

Official sources

How AHH can help

  • Wattlewood with a Year Pack gives your child work ready for each day across 40 weeks. Every task has Support, Core and Extension levels. Your child's level never changes by itself, and you confirm any change. That makes it easier to keep the work matched to your child's ability.
  • Whether your child's education is "high-quality" is decided by QHE, based on your whole program and report. No product, ours included, can meet this condition for you.

3. A written report on your child's educational progress every year

What Queensland asks. Every year you must send QHE a written report on your child's educational progress. The report has to:

  • use QHE's approved form, and
  • arrive in the window the law sets, which is 2 to 3 months before your registration anniversary.

QHE emails you a unique link for each child when the window opens, in the ninth month of registration. The report is due in the tenth month. QHE says the due date cannot be extended. The online form doesn't work on mobile phones, so use a desktop computer, laptop or tablet. Someone else can help you prepare the report, but a parent has to submit it.

Official sources

How AHH can help

  • The Wattlewood evidence log keeps a dated record each time your child finishes a task: the subject and task, the date, the level they worked at, and your note. Over a year, that gives you a factual record to draw on when you write about what your child did and how they progressed.
  • The Wattlewood Term Report sums up each term. If you print or save one at the end of every term, you won't be starting from a blank page in month nine.
  • Field Notes (opens in a new tab) (A$12.95) lets you log an excursion on your phone and send it to Wattlewood, so learning away from home gets recorded too.
  • Wattlewood doesn't write or submit your report, and you still use QHE's approved form. Our records help you remember and describe what happened. You decide what goes in the report.

4. Work samples and annotations (QHE's guidance)

What Queensland asks. QHE's optional report pack explains how to show progress through work samples. For each learning area, it suggests two samples of your child's work that are:

  1. Comparative. Both samples focus on the same concept. The first shows early learning, and the second shows a more complex task.
  2. Comprehensive. There's enough work to show progress.
  3. Dated.
  4. Annotated. Your notes explain the teaching and learning behind each sample.
  5. Reviewed. They show your instructions, support and feedback.

The pack suggests two samples each in English (your child's own writing) and Mathematics (developing one concept), plus two in one other learning area. QHE's Set 2 template asks for a year in review and comments on the progress you saw between samples.

QHE also notes that it can't open material stored in cloud services such as Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive or iCloud, or links to private blogs, YouTube channels or websites. Include your samples in the report itself.

The templates are optional, and QHE says you may report in another format.

Official sources

How AHH can help

  • Year Packs cover English, Maths, Science and Geography, so your child's work from them can give you material in English, Maths and a third learning area.
  • The Wattlewood evidence log dates each finished task and keeps your note, so you can find when a concept was first taught and when your child came back to it. That helps you pick an "early" and a "later" sample and write your annotation.
  • Wattlewood runs offline on your own device. You print or save its reports and include them yourself, with no cloud link involved.

Be aware

  • QHE's English samples are your child's own composition, such as recounts, letters or narratives. A Wattlewood task record isn't a work sample in itself. Keep your child's actual written work, dated, alongside it.
  • Wattlewood doesn't store photos. It can't pair samples for you, and it doesn't write annotations. Choosing the samples and writing the annotations is your job.
  • For the step-by-step version of choosing samples and writing annotations, see 28 Days (opens in a new tab).

5. An updated program summary for next year

What Queensland asks. If your child is continuing, your annual report must include an educational program summary for the following year, updated to suit your child. QHE checks that it meets the standard conditions, especially high-quality education. QHE's Set 3 is an optional template with a worked example.

Official sources

How AHH can help

  • Plan Builder (opens in a new tab) (free) helps you write next year's plan.
  • Wattlewood Term Reports show what your child covered this year. That helps you decide what to revise, what to continue and what comes next.
  • Year Packs for the next year band give you topics and resources to name in the new plan.
  • Registration Pack (opens in a new tab) (free) can put the updated plan and supporting documents together into one PDF.

6. Telling QHE if you move

What Queensland asks. If your child's usual home address changes, you must tell QHE within 28 days. This is a standard condition of registration. QHE has a change of details form for it.

Official sources

How AHH can help. No AHH product does this for you. Use QHE's form.

A note on the Year Packs

Wattlewood Year Packs are available for Year 1-2, Year 3-4 and Year 5-6. They cover Maths, English, Science and Geography. History, Civics and Citizenship, and Economics and Business sit under the Geography tag, and each task names its real subject. Queensland doesn't require you to follow the Australian Curriculum: QHE publishes example programs built three different ways. If you do use it, the packs follow Australian Curriculum v9.0. The packs help you plan, record and show progress. They don't make up your whole program, and QHE decides what it accepts.

Official pages we checked (5 October 2026)

Official pages change. If anything here differs from QHE's pages, follow QHE.

This is not legal advice. AHH is not a government body. Queensland Home Education makes all decisions about your child's registration and reports. Please check with QHE.