What are the requirements to register for homeschooling?

What are the requirements to register for homeschooling?

Home education only applies to the compulsory schooling phase (from Grade 1 to Grade 9 or age 15, whichever comes first). If you choose to educate your child at home, you would need to apply to the head of your Provincial Education Department (PED) to register your child for homeschooling. The lessons you offer your child must fall within the scope of the following compulsory phases of education: 
  1. Foundation Phase (Grades 1 to 3)
  2. Intermediate Phase (Grades 4 to 6)
  3. Senior Phase (Grades 7 to 9)
For more information, please refer to the Department of Basic Education. 

Learners in Grade 10, 11 and 12 falls under distance learning and must be registered with an examination board. Examination boards do not register independent candidates. FET learners, therefore, must register with a curriculum provider, who is registered with an examination board. Impaq is registered with SACAI (an examination board fully accredited with Umalusi). Click here to learn more about the FET Phase. 

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