Home Education WA - HEWA

📣 Important information for home educating families – 2026

Our mailing list is usually sent only via email; however, this situation is urgent, and there are key dates coming up next week.

HEWA sent out an important email very last night with links and information that families need right now. Please share this widely with anyone in the home education community, so no one misses out.

Please note that the annual “Welcome to Home Education” email usually sent by the WA Department of Education is not being sent this year.

HEWA has therefore compiled the key information and dates families need to be aware of.

🔗 Link to the HEWA email:
https://mailchi.mp/hbln/5k0j8xo7ni

Thank you for helping us get this information to as many families as possible.

Welcome to 2026 The Home Education WA (HEWA) committee would like to wish all our home educating families across WA an exciting, adventurous, and joyful learning journey in 2026.

📣 Attention WA Home Educators

It has been brought to HEWA’s attention that some Regional Office staff are withholding registration forms unless families complete a survey first.

This requirement is not supported by the Education Act, and HEWA is actively advocating for this practice to be removed.

Your experiences help us identify patterns and advocate effectively for all home‑educating families.

If you’ve been asked to complete a survey, provide new information, or anything not required under the Act, please let us know via email: [email protected]

HEWA is a volunteer‑run organisation, and we rely on community strength to protect our rights.

If you value this work, please consider stepping into a non‑committee volunteer role so we can continue supporting and advocating for the rights of Home Educating Families.

If you'd like to volunteer, please contact Monique for more information via email: [email protected]

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

Due to ongoing health challenges, our HEWA coordinator needs to drastically reduce her volunteer hours, effective immediately.

To keep HEWA running effectively we urgently need additional committee members (an admin assistant and a treasurer, as well as general committee members). We also welcome non-committee volunteers to help with some online tasks, and assist us at incursion days, excursions and/or events.

For those of you who indicated you could help, via the 2026 survey, please consider returning your forms ASAP.

Committee nomination form and non-committee volunteer forms are also in the files section of our Knowledge collectiom group.

If you have any questions, please contact Monique via [email protected]

Thank you.

HEWA committee.

The survey about 2026 incursions, excursions, and events closes tomorrow 16 January.

Survey regarding possible incursions, excursions and events in 2026

https://forms.office.com/r/0hfxUzcn7E

Survey is closing this Friday 16 January.

Survey regarding possible incursions, excursions and events in 2026

https://forms.office.com/r/0hfxUzcn7E

NOT back to school picnic playdate

NOT back to school Picnic playdate
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Survey regarding possible incursions, excursions and events in 2026

https://forms.office.com/r/0hfxUzcn7E

Home Education WA is part of a working group organised by the Department of Education to develop examples of education plans and progress reports for home-educated children.

We are reaching out to gather some more examples of realistic expectations on what an education plan should look like and how progress can be shown.

If you would be happy to share, please email any examples to [email protected]

UPDATE:
We are turning off comments on this post as we do not have the volunteer availability to reply individually.

Under the School Education Act 1999 (WA), once registered, a home educator is responsible for preparing an education plan and for showing the progress their child has made. However, the Act and Department guidelines do not provide examples of what this should look like in practice.

Our aim in participating in the Department’s working group is to help create examples that reflect the diversity of home education. These examples are not intended to be templates or standards, but rather illustrations of how an individualised education plan and evidence of progress might be shown in different ways.

We want to ensure that any examples highlight:
• Flexibility – recognising that every child and every home is different.
• Individualisation – progress can be academic, social, or developmental, depending on the child’s needs and goals.
• Equity – examples should not hold home educators to higher standards than schools; rather, they should demonstrate the unique strengths of home education.

By contributing, families can help shape examples that reflect the breadth of approaches in our community.

If you would like to share examples of your own plans or ways you’ve shown progress, please email them to [email protected].

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