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6For communities

Take what's useful.

Three things ParkSyde makes are yours to take: the curriculum map is open to everyone, and the digital park and the Fairpaddock are free and stay free. If the families and members you already look after would use them, they're yours to pass on — no agreement, no referral, nothing owed either way.

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 we give first.

Running a class or a program yourself? The 10-Week AI Build is a paid licence rather than a free resource, and it has two doors of its own — one for schools and Departments, and one for providers, services and community organisations who would run it with their own staff.

And the door swings the other way too: if somebody in your community knows something worth handing on — a skill, a talk, a workshop — the park takes offers.

Give first, and be specific about what it costs. Everything else follows from that.

Three things to take, 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.

For home-educating families

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. Years 11 and 12 are smaller so far, eleven units each. Anyone can browse the full map with no sign-up; if you would rather have it as a document, ask us and we send it.

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.

Ask us for the map →

Open to everyone · we collect your name and email, nothing else
For young people

The 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 ads
Something to read, and to talk about

The Fairpaddock

The park's own community paper, written three times a day — morning, day and evening — by an AI model, and not checked by a person before it goes up. Old-school broadsheet layout, printable, and made to be read aloud.

It is made to print for a front table: a conversation starter with someone who's gone quiet, and reading practice that isn't a worksheet.

Read today's edition →

Free · please take one

And the one thing we sell

We'd rather you heard this from us on the same page as the things we give than found it later and wondered what they were really for.

ParkSyde Learning 2027 — the home-education subscription

From $99 a month

A family can subscribe from a child's first year of school, and every year after it is already written and sequenced across eight learning areas, to Year 10, with senior starter units for Years 11 and 12 after that. The registrar-facing record is kept as the learning happens, and the family stays the educator. $200 covers a whole family for the rest of 2026 — one payment, every child, to 31 December, and nothing renews; its Learning Start consultation is booked from January. Or one of two plans: Learning at $99 a month, or $990 a year — the whole program, and ParkSyde can also arrange a range of professional supports — a registered teacher, a counsellor or a psychologist — whenever a family wants one, quoted before anything is booked; or Learning + Consultation at $119 a month, or $1,190 a year, which adds one Learning Start consultation a year. Additional learners are discounted on either plan. If two published figures ever disagree, the lower one is the one we’ll honour.

On a subscription, a family's first week is theirs to try: nothing is charged until day 8, and never before they have seen their own total and said yes to it. The $200 payment is charged in full on the day, so the week to try it is not part of it. The curriculum map above is open to everyone whether or not anyone ever subscribes.

See the home-education page in full →

A family can see its exact price and start here →

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.

And the honest limits

ParkSyde is a small Qld 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.

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.