The first 100 families to subscribe pay $200 for the rest of 2026 — the whole subscription through to the end of the year. Not a trial, and not a first month that jumps later. Getting in touch is how you claim one of the hundred places, and nothing is charged until you have said yes to a number you have already seen. Once the hundred are gone, this is the offer:
$100 a month — or $270 paid once.
The $270 covers October to December, and saves $30 against paying monthly. Either rate is open until Friday 23 October, because families who take a child out of school rarely do it in the first week of a term. After that, standard pricing.
$100 / month
$100 a month, starting when you do — three payments across October, November and December. Cancel any time from your own account page.
$270 paid once
One payment covering October to December for your first learner. Exactly the same access as the monthly way, $30 cheaper for paying once.
Standard pricing is $119 a month, or $1,190 a year ($99.17 a month) if you pay annually — we are showing you both so you can check the comparison yourself. The early-family rate covers you to the end of December; from January you move to standard pricing, and we will tell you before anything is charged.
- Getting in touch costs nothing and commits you to nothing. No card, no deposit, no obligation to go ahead. Nothing is charged until you have chosen to start and said yes to a number you have already seen.
- This rate closes Friday 23 October 2026. It is an early-family rate for joining, not a rate held indefinitely: it covers you to the end of December whichever way you pay it, and from January you move to standard pricing. We will tell you what that is before you are charged anything.
- All prices are in Australian dollars and include GST. You can cancel at any time from your account page; read our refund policy before you pay.
- You can start now. The curriculum, the diagnostics and the records are live, and your child's progress is saved to your account rather than to one browser — so it is there when you change device, and there when someone asks to see it.
What you actually get
Not a library of worksheets. A sequenced program, with the paperwork built in.
How a day works
Explicit teaching, guided practice, then something they choose.
A check, not a birthday
Short assessments in reading, maths and science report strand by strand — secure, developing or emerging — so you know what to teach next rather than what grade to give. They anchor around Year 2 to Year 5 difficulty; outside that range you and your Learning Start teacher set the starting point together.
You don't have to be a teacher
In the early years the lessons are scripted for the adult reading them aloud, word for word. From the middle years the teaching is written to the learner, with worked examples, hints, and a note on what each wrong answer actually means. Most lessons need nothing but paper and a pencil; where something has to be gathered first, the lesson says so at the top.
Choice, with the bar unchanged
Build it, draw it, film it, write it — the success criteria are identical either way. Interest chooses the doorway; it never decides what is expected.
Kept as you go, not reconstructed later
Completed lessons, check results and your child's own reflections are recorded against the curriculum codes while the learning happens — so nothing has to be remembered back into existence in December.
We show you how we checked it.
Every curriculum code on the platform was verified against ACARA's published set by machine. The units cite a code 848 times between them, across 671 distinct codes — 848 of 848 real, no duplicates. That part is simply true and checkable.
Whether each code genuinely matches what the lesson teaches is a judgement call, so we marked a random sample of 100 against the official descriptions and published what we found: 13 disagreed. Six were real errors and were corrected; the rest were wording we decided to defend. That was our own review, not an independent one, and the page says so in those words.
We publish the method, the limits, the places we deliberately teach something in a different year to the curriculum's sequence, and the honest upper bound on how often we are still wrong. If you find a mistake, tell us: we confirm within two business days and fix it within five, and every correction is listed publicly.
Including the parts that do not flatter us: the method, its limits, and the honest upper bound on how often we are still wrong.
You are the educator. Not us.
This is the bit we will not budge on.
You chose an alternative to mainstream schooling. So the platform works for you, not the other way around — the goalposts are yours to move.
- Preview the sensitive material. Where a unit covers protective behaviours in the early years, or consent in Year 10, the unit overview sets out exactly what is in it — including the words used — before your child opens it.
- Change anything. Reword it, re-time it, teach it yourself away from the screen, or substitute your own material entirely. What you cover and how you record it is yours; we do not police it and there is nothing to submit to us.
- We never measure you. No parent rating, no engagement league table, no report on the supervising adult to anyone. We do not collect it, so it cannot exist.
- We never contact your child. No chat, no messaging, no uploads, no public profiles, no child accounts. Everything comes to you.
What it costs
$119 per month
Full Prep–12 access for your first learner, every learning area, all 101 units. Cancel any time, from your own account page.
One Learning Start consultation each year
A registered teacher, counsellor or psychologist sits down with your family at the intake assessment and helps you plan the year.
Additional learners are discounted ($79 a month at standard pricing). Current rates always live on this page and on our fees page — if two published figures ever differ, the lower figure is the one we will honour.
If you assess this for a living
You will want to know the mapping is real before you recommend it. So: the alignment method, the audit tooling and the known limitations are all published, and we would rather you attacked them than took our word.
- A worked registration example — a full program summary for one year level, generated from the live platform, with every code listed.
- The evidence base — every pedagogical claim carries its citation, contested evidence is flagged as contested, and there is a list of what we refuse to claim.
- Our own audit, and its limits — we marked 100 outcomes against the official descriptions and found 13 we disagreed with. That was a self-audit, and we would rather you knew the number than trusted the adjective.
- A place on the review panel — the honest gap is that no independent teacher has marked our alignment yet. If you would be willing to, we will send you the sample and publish what you find, including if it is unflattering.
The evidence base is public — every claim with its citation, and the list of what we refuse to claim. The worked registration example is not on the site; ask and we will send it, along with a place on the review panel if you want one.
Straight answers, held with pride
You deserve to know exactly where you stand — so here it is, plainly and happily.
- Your registrar stays the decision-maker. We teach, and we keep a record worth showing them — that’s the system working the way it should, and we built for it on purpose.
- Your child writes their own story. We won’t sell you a promised outcome — what we bring is honest teaching, a record that shows real progress, and people who are easy to reach when something needs adjusting.
- Our evidence is being built the right way — in the open. We’re early in our journey, so the research we lean on today is the field’s rather than our own. As ours arrives, this page is where you’ll see it — whatever it says.
- Funding calls belong to Services Australia. Where an assessment genuinely supports documentation, we provide it — that integrity protects your family exactly as much as it protects us.
Who registers home education where you live
Registration is between your family and your state or territory — not something we do, or can do for you. It is worth knowing who that is before anything else, because they set the rules you will be working to.
- Queensland — the Department of Education's Home Education Unit.
- New South Wales — the NSW Department of Education (registration transferred here from NESA in May 2025; NESA still sets the curriculum).
- Victoria — the VRQA, the Victorian Registration and Qualifications Authority.
- South Australia — the Department for Education.
- Western Australia — the Department of Education, through its home education moderators.
- Tasmania — the Office of the Education Registrar.
- Northern Territory — the NT Department of Education and Training.
- ACT — the Education Directorate's home education team.
Search the name for your state and you will land on the right page. Moving interstate means registering again with the new authority — an existing registration does not travel. We are not any of these bodies and we do not speak for them; if what they tell you differs from anything here, they are right and we would like to know so we can fix it.
Look before you decide anything.
The full curriculum map is open — every year, every unit, every lesson title, no sign-up needed. The first lesson of every unit is free to read. Or leave your details below and we will come to you.
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