At Always Learning Books, we support and encourage you on your home educating journey, helping you find approaches that genuinely meet your family’s educational needs. The resources we create are based on personal lived experience. We understand our subject, having built empathy and understanding of the needs of home educating families over 40 years of volunteering and advocacy in the homeschooling and unschooling community.
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✔️ PDF: Only print the pages you need!
✔️ F-10 Year Level Outcome Checklists
✔️ Planning Pages
✔️ Diary Pages
✔️ Calendar Pages
✔️ Student Self-Assessment Pages
✔️ Australian Curriculum V9 Aligned
“Ideal for homeschoolers and unschoolers to plan and keep track of what, how and when their kids are learning, excellent for planned and spontaneous learning. What a time saver!” Tamara Kidd, TutorYourOwnChild.com
"As a recent family to home education, being able to track the 'non-curriculum based' aspects of our days have been invaluable! Thankyou for creating and sharing such helpful resources!" Prudence Chaz
"Seeing and using the template gave me just what I needed to help me get my learning plan and application sorted." Carol D
Combine with our Always Learning Homeschool Year Plans and Learning Materials for Home Educating e-book for a reassuring and confident start to your homeschooling adventure!
A simple, parent-friendly homeschool diary designed by Beverley Paine in the 1990s and refined through decades of real-life use. Flexible for one or more children, it captures both everyday child-led learning and parent-offered activities in a quick, stress-free format that takes only minutes a day.
✔️ Builds confidence that genuine learning is happening
✔️ Recognises everyday living as part of education
✔️ Encourages a balanced view of child-led and parent-led learning
✔️ Designed for brevity – no lengthy reports required
✔️ Fast and easy daily record-keeping
✔️ Flexible for multiple children
✔️ Print pages as you need them
✔️ Includes monthly reading and video/documentary logs
✔️ Helps simplify end-of-year registration paperwork
✔️ Creates a keepsake record of your family’s homeschool life
✔️ Pairs beautifully with photos and portfolios
"I love this diary! For the first several years it was probably the best tool I had for figuring out our curriculum, recording and reporting. The diaries have saved me an enormous amount of time and worry." Violet
"The diaries have been so useful and the A5 book is handy handbag size which is very convenient for excursions and life learning outings. Thank you Beverley as I believe they also helped my approval process." Louise W
"Being able to track the 'non-curriculum based' aspects of our days have been invaluable! Thankyou Beverley for creating and sharing such helpful resources!" Prudence Chaz
We know what it’s like to have doubts, to make mistakes, spend money we don’t have buying resources we never used. We know we all start in more or less the same space and how it feels to leave mainstream education to embark on this awesome adventure. Scary, right? But you’re not alone. Let Beverley help you.
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Homeschooling tools and support you can immediately use!
"The information is real and generous. Most books do not really explain 'how' as well as you do." Tracy, SA
"I cannot seem to get enough of your writings on the whole home ed subject! You portray a lot of wisdom, knowledge and experience..." Marie, NSW
"A fabulous source of information and inspiration. I am very pleased to have some of your titles on my bookshelf... providing me with wonderful, detailed information and resources." Faye, QLD
"Whenever I read your writing I always come away with increased confidence in my ability to provide and share a wonderful learning journey with my family. Thank you!" Maaike, VIC
"Your words and all the resources you share are like a lighthouse, especially for those of us at the beginning stages." Michelle B, WA