Your education doesn't have to stop once you leave school—freedom from the classroom just means you have more control over what you learn and when you learn it. We've put together a curriculum of some of the best free online classes available on the web this spring for our fourth term of Lifehacker U, our regularly-updating guide to improving your life with free, online college-level classes. Let's get started. Visit 

http://lifehacker.com/5974371/plan-your-free-online-education-at-lifehacker-u-spring-semester-2013 for full details.

Notice of AGM - March 12th 2013 - 7:30pm EST (daylight savings)

Nominations for committee positions are open.

Meetings are held via phone using teleconferencing. We would love to have a strong gathering and if you wish to attend please contact Tamara via This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for the meeting log-in details.

If you have us set up in your direct debit, please check that you are using the new ANZ account.

ANZ Bank
Home Education Association Incorporated
BSB - 012708
ACCOUNT - 263875482

The most common request the HEA recieves is from families searching for fellow homeschoolers in their local area. We do our best to put them in touch with individuals & groups located as close as possible but there are still some very large areas across Australia which lack HEA registered supports. The HEA currently has 133 local support contacts which is tiny when compared to the numbers of home educators in Australia.

Our committee would like to grow the number of local contacts and it is NOT necessary for that contact to be a HEA member.

Can You Help Our Help Line?

Last year we received hundreds of calls to the help line and our volunteers did a great job at dealing with all sorts of enquiries. The calls are very DIVERSE! Anything from; "Is home education legal?" to "Where do I access dyslexia resources?"

Calls to the HEA Help Line increase every year so we need to build our volunteer numbers to keep the workload light.

CYRIL Jackson Senior Campus student Mitchell Chiew is one of seven public school students to receive a perfect Australian Tertiary Admission Rank score of 99.95 and the only Cyril Jackson student to join the elite “99 Club”.

The score places the former home-school student among the top performing students who sat examinations in four or more Western Australian Certificate of Education (WACE) subjects in 2012.

The 17-year-old said he was happy to make the club and was glad that his hard work had paid off. View the full article at 

http://stirling.inmycommunity.com.au/news-and-views/local-news/Mitchell-joins-the-elite/7638623/

Drawing is the foundation to develop your creative endeavours. It can bring a lot of joy and confidence and enhance learning in other subjects.

Learn about drawing materials – Values, Composition, Perspective and more

Location: Galston Community Centre, 37 Arcadia Rd, Galston NSW 2159 (plenty of free parking)

Term 1 Starts - February 2013 (5 week course) $150.00 for 5 weeks. All drawing materials included

New Earthschool is a community resource for people who love being with children - and helping them learn about living sustainably on the Earth. It’s a site for teachers, 

parents and children.

The Lesson Ideas integrate learning outcomes from the new Australian National Curriculum.They are inquiry-based, with a focus on our interconnectedness with all life.

The Online Resources are an ongoing research project to compile the best earth-related videos and web sites on offer to the teaching profession. You can visit the site at 

http://www.newabundance.com.au/earthschool/

Teachers and politicians want sweeping changes to Australian schools after students fared poorly in international tests.

Year 4 students did poorly in maths, science and especially reading at the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study, which was released yesterday.

The study found a quarter of Year 4 students failed minimum reading standards and our students ranked behind students in 26 other nations. Australia had the worst results of any English-speaking country. Read more