Who this page is for
Home-education groups and co-ops. Libraries. Neighbourhood and community centres. Playgroups, youth services, men's sheds, church and cultural groups — anyone who already has a room full of people and a list of families who trust them.
You have the hardest thing to build and we don't: standing. We have some things worth handing on. That's the whole of the trade, and it runs one way first.
Give first, and be specific about what it costs. Everything else follows from that.
Four things, free, today
Nothing below needs an account, a membership or an approval from us. You can put them on a noticeboard, in a newsletter, or in a group post this afternoon.
The full curriculum map
Every year level, every unit, every lesson title, Prep to Year 12 — plus how we aligned it to the curriculum and where that alignment has known limits. We send it as a document.
No sign-up, no call, and no obligation after reading it. Plenty of families use it to plan their own year and never come back to us. That's a fine outcome.
Free · nothing collected but the address we send it toThe digital park & its games
ParkSyde's games are made in-house and run in a browser on any device — basketball, chess, a platformer, an arcade, a fairground adventure. Alongside them, a figure builder where tokens earned in the games buy hats, capes and trails.
Nothing in a ParkSyde game asks for money — no purchases, no ads, no accounts. Progress stays on the child's own device. They're in active development, so expect rough edges.
See the games → Build a figure →
Free · no accounts, no purchases, no adsThe Fairpaddock
The park's own community paper, written three times a day — morning, day and evening. Old-school broadsheet layout, printable, and made to be read aloud.
Centres print it for the front table. It works as a conversation starter with someone who's gone quiet, and as reading practice that isn't a worksheet.
Free · please take oneThe Chat Bench
Someone books a time; at that time a real person from ParkSyde rings them and they talk about the day — the news, the weather, the footy. About twenty minutes. Book another whenever.
It isn't counselling, therapy or a crisis service, and the caller is admin staff rather than a clinician. If a call ever needs more than a chat, they help find the right door and stay on the line while it happens. The checklist they work to is public.
Free · 18+ · no charge, everAnd the one thing we sell
We'd rather you heard this from us on the same page as the free list than found it later and wondered what the free list was really for.
ParkSyde Education — the home-education subscription
$119 a monthA sequenced Prep–Year 12 program across eight learning areas, with the registrar-facing record kept as the learning happens. There is an early-family rate for Term 4 2026 — $100 a month for the first two months — open until the end of Week 3, Friday 23 October 2026. Additional learners are discounted.
Joining the waitlist costs nothing and commits a family to nothing: no card, no deposit. The curriculum map above is free whether or not anyone ever subscribes.
What we won't do to you, or to your people
Worth saying out loud, because you are the one who will wear it if we get it wrong.
- We won't name your organisation as a partner, a supporter or a referrer — on this site, in a grant application, or anywhere else — unless you've asked us to in writing.
- We won't ask your families for their details before they can use the free things. The games need no account; the paper needs no address; the map costs one email.
- We won't run a sales process through your front desk. Pass something on if it's useful, ignore us if it isn't, and there'll be no second phone call about it.
- We won't claim work we haven't done. If we've never worked with a group, we don't say we have.
And the honest limits
ParkSyde is a small Rockhampton organisation. The education platform is new, it has no efficacy trial behind it, and we won't promise an outcome for a child we've never met. The games are in active development. The Chat Bench is run by admin staff, not clinicians.
None of that stops any of it being useful today. It does mean you should judge it on what it plainly is, which is why we've written down what it plainly is.
More of the same in the open: what we know and what we don't, and how we work.
If you'd like to talk
Tell us who you are and what your community actually needs. It takes about a minute, and someone gets back to you.
We're as interested in "here's what our families are short of" as we are in anything about us — if the answer is a thing we already make, we'll point you at it; if it isn't, we'll say so.
Talk to us about your community
Your organisation, who to come back to, and what would actually help. Nothing on this form is shared outside ParkSyde.
Or just ring us. We're small enough that you'll get someone who can answer.