How To Use Our Education Plans
Our editable, curriculum-mapped home school education plans are designed to make home schooling much easier - especially for travelling families. If you're new to Caravan Classroom, here's how to get started:
Step 1: Check Your State or Territory's Requirements
Each state and territory in Australia has its own home education process. Before editing your plan, visit your home education authority's website to confirm:
- Which curriculum areas must be included.
- What documentation is required.
- How you will need to track and report progress.
📘 Our plans have been thoughtfully designed to include many of the common requirements across states and territories. However, because expectations do vary, it's important to ensure your final, edited plan aligns with your local guidelines.
🔗 [View links to each state/territory authority]
Step 2: Open Your Plan and Personalise It
You'll receive your plan as a fully editable Word document. It's already mapped to the Australian Curriculum and laid out clearly by subject area.
Start by:
- Filling in your child's name and details.
- Reading the example goals, learner styles and strategies.
- Deleting anything that doesn't apply to your family.
- Adding or adjusting anything you'd like to personalise.
📘 Each plan includes year-level appropriate examples and prompts to help you customise the content with ease—no need to start from scratch.
📝 Our plans are designed to be culled, not built from the ground up. Keep what works – delete the rest.
Step 3: Understand the Structure
Each subject area includes:
- Achievement standards at the beginning to show what's expected.
- Learning blocks grouped logically, including:
- Curriculum codes and descriptions.
- Suggested activities for travelling families.
- Resource ideas.
- Simple assessment suggestions (e.g. photos, journal entries and work samples).
📘 Our plans are easy to follow and designed specifically for families travelling Australia—it's what makes Caravan Classroom unique. This structure helps you stay on track, meet curriculum requirements, and keep a clear, practical record of learning on the road.
Step 4: Tweak for Your Needs
Depending on your child's strengths and interests, or your state's requirements, you may want to:
- Focus on literacy and numeracy.
- Reduce or remove subjects you don't need (we offer advice on what you can safely cull).
- Add your own activities and resources.
📌 Many travelling families choose to delete The Languages curriculum. Also, others reduce The Arts curriculum to focus on immersing their children in cultural experiences as they travel, rather than explicitly following the curriculum.
📌 Some curriculum areas have achievement standards designed to be met over two years. Our plans include information about these subjects, so you can choose to halve the content or spread it out over two years, according to your family's needs.
🔗 [Visit our 'What Areas of the Curriculum to Include?' guide]
Step 5: Finalise and Use Your Plan
Once you've edited your plan, it's ready to print or save - whether for your home education application or to use as a day-to-day guide on the road.
💡 Handy hint: highlight sections as you complete them to keep track of your child's learning on the go.
⚠️ While designed to meet common registration requirements, our plans don't guarantee approval. Be sure your final version meets your local authority's expectations.
🧭 These plans aren't just for ticking boxes, they're created to support meaningful, real-world learning. That's why they're intentionally detailed and practical.
Final Tips
- Use the learning blocks to guide your weekly or term planning. A helpful tip is to divide the number of learning blocks in your child’s plan by 40 weeks to determine a rough guide for how many learning blocks to complete each week (usually 1-2, depending on your final edited plan and the content you choose to keep or remove).
- Explore our tips for establishing a flexible learning routine that suits your family's travel lifestyle.
- Discover practical ways to develop essential skills while learning on the road.
- Link activities to your travels, such as visiting museums, going on bushwalks, or exploring cultural centres and local attractions. If learning happens incidentally, that's great - it counts too, so there's no need to double up.
- Collect simple evidence of learning, including photos, work samples and short written reflections. Reporting is generally a straightforward and simple process, but check your home education authority's requirements, as these vary between jurisdictions.
- Stay flexible – the plans are a guide, not a rulebook.
✨ Our plans aren't locked into a strict sequence - you can pick and choose what to cover, when and where, ensuring learning stays engaging and connected to the places you visit. -the flexibility and freedom that's perfect for life on the road!
What You're Getting
Your Caravan Classroom plan includes:
✅ Curriculum-mapped, editable Word document
✅ Clearly structured subject areas
✅ A plan that can be used for registration purposes in any state or territory other than NSW where extended travel is not supported
✅ Designed for life on the road, simple personalise and go!
Delivered in full, up front, from day 1. 📥 Ready to start? [Explore our Plans]
