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Welcome to Future Learners. Join us, as we embark on a journey to empower students, parents, and educators, as we navigate the ever-evolving landscape of education, schooling and what it takes to grow and succeed in today’s world. This podcast is brought to you by Euka future learning. Australia’s largest online, full-time education provider for K-12 students seeking a flexible, relevant & meaningful education. Visit euka.edu.au for more.

  1. 2d ago

    Can I Start Homeschooling in the Middle of the School Year? | 044

    In this episode of the Future Learners podcast, Brett Campbell (CEO and co-founder of Euka) and Ellen Brown (Founder and Head of Education) tackle the single most googled question they see from Australian parents every May, June and July. Can you start homeschooling in the middle of the school year? The short answer is yes, and often, the middle of the year is the smartest time to switch. Brett and Ellen walk through the seven things every parent needs to know before making a mid-year move. They cover registration timelines, what to do if your child is being bullied right now, families who are pulling kids out to travel Australia or overseas for the rest of the year, students refusing to walk through the school gate, and whether your Year 11 or Year 12 student can still finish strong with a university pathway intact. If you have been telling yourself you will “wait until next year”, this is the conversation that will help you decide whether next term, or next week, is the better answer. Key Points What the data tells us Mid-year enrolments are not the exception, they are the norm. Families join Euka every single day of the year, not only in January. 1 in 3 students now come to Euka because of bullying, up from 1 in 5 five years ago (Euka enrolment data 2021 to 2026, shared on the Today Show by Ellen Brown in April 2026). The eSafety Commissioner has reported a 37 per cent increase in actionable cyberbullying complaints from young people in the past year. Around 30 per cent of families who come to Euka mid-year do so intending to use homeschooling as a bridge, not a forever choice. Why mid-year is often a smart time to switch State education department home education units are far less swamped in May, June and July than they are in January and February. Approvals tend to come back faster outside the start-of-year peak. Your child can start at any week or term in the curriculum, in parallel with their school timeline, or by going back to the lesson where they last felt confident. Euka’s flexible learning model means you do not need to wait for a “fresh start” date that is months away to give your child a calmer week. When this episode matters for your family Your child is being bullied, and the school’s response so far has not changed it. Your child is refusing or resisting going to school, and mornings have become a battle. You are travelling for the rest of the year, around Australia or overseas, and the school calendar no longer fits. A life situation has shifted, and the 9 to 3 calendar is no longer workable. The Year 11 or 12 timetable is breaking your student, and you have been told “they cannot leave now”. You have been thinking about homeschooling for a while, and you are tired of waiting for January. The Single Most Asked Question We Hear Every May, June and July Every year, the same question lands in the Euka inbox in waves. Some version of “is it too late to start now?”, or “can I switch in the middle of the year?”, or “do I have to wait until Term 1 next year?”. The answer has not changed, and it is short. No, it is not too late. Yes, you can switch right now. You do not have to wait. What has changed is the number of families asking, and the range of reasons. Bullying is the biggest single trigger, but the same conversation comes from families heading off to travel for the rest of the year, parents whose child has stopped getting in the car for school, and senior students whose Year 11 or 12 timetable has stopped working. “You do not have to wait for January. Often, the next term is too late. The decision to remove a child from a situation that is hurting them is not a decision that should sit on a shelf.”— Ellen Brown, Founder and Head of Education, Euka 7 Things to Know Before You Switch Mid-Year This is the spine of the episode, structured as a journey from the first moment of doubt, to the decision, to the first day at home. 1. You can start any day of the year There is no enrolment cliff at the end of January. The Euka program is built so that a student can begin at any lesson, in any week, in any term. If your child is in the middle of Term 2 at school, they can pick up at the equivalent point in the Euka curriculum, or go back to where they last felt on top of the work and rebuild from there. 2. Mid-year is actually a faster registration window State home education units process the bulk of their applications between November and February. By the middle of the year, the queue is shorter and the wait times are better. If you are looking at homeschooling in New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria or any other state, mid-year is the calmer side of their admin calendar. 3. You do not need the school principal’s permission This is the line Ellen comes back to most often. Parents have the legal authority to remove their child from a school and educate them at home. You notify the principal, you do not ask permission. If your child’s safety is at immediate risk, you can remove them straight away while the formal registration is being processed. A medical or psychologist certificate can support that step. 4. Your child will not fall behind, and the “gap” often helps Euka delivers the same state-based curriculum as your child’s school, mapped to the Australian Curriculum and the relevant state syllabus. Lessons are designed to be picked up at any point. There is a thing Ellen calls “the gap” that matters here. When a child is in a stressful situation at school, the stress snowballs and the schoolwork in front of them stops going in. They are already falling behind, even while they are sitting in the classroom. Taking them out of that environment, even briefly, gives them the space to reset and regain composure. You are a product of your environment, and changing the environment changes the outcome. Many families find their child actually moves ahead once the day is built around how they learn best. 5. Year 11 and 12 students can switch too This is the one parents are most afraid of, and it is the one that almost always surprises them. In a traditional school, jumping out of Year 11 or 12 mid-year feels final. With Euka, it is not. The senior pathway recognises prior work, the assessment model uses upload-feedback-resubmit so students keep building their academic record, and Euka’s University Pathways include a partnership with Navitas that opens entry into more than 90 university colleges in Australia, the UK, Canada and the USA, without an ATAR. “I was that parent that was worried, like, what about after? But my eldest has received a conditional offer to law, and she is knocking it out of the park.”— Barbara Bryan, Euka parent, Episode 43 6. If safety is at risk, you can act immediately The bullying numbers are why this point matters. One in three students now come to Euka because of bullying, and actionable cyberbullying complaints to the eSafety Commissioner have risen 37 per cent in the past year. When the situation has become unsafe, the decision to remove your child is a today decision. The registration can happen in the background while your child gets the space to recover. 7. You will not be the teacher The fear that holds the most parents back is the fear that they will have to become a maths teacher, a science teacher, an English teacher, all at once. They will not. The lessons are written and delivered by qualified teachers through the Euka platform; the parent’s role is to facilitate, not to instruct. You sit alongside your child, not in front of a whiteboard. Answered Questions Real questions Australian parents ask, answered through the practical experience of running Euka and supporting families through mid-year switches. Can I start homeschooling in the middle of the school year? + Yes. The Euka program is built to be started at any point in any term, and families enrol every day of the calendar year. There is no waiting until January, and no “missed window”. “You do not have to wait for January. You can just jump on into homeschooling, and it is going to adjust around you and adjust around your child.”— Ellen Brown The state-based registration runs faster mid-year because the home education units are not as swamped as they are at the start-of-year peak. If safety is the reason you are moving now, your child can begin at home while the formal paperwork is being processed. How do I register for homeschooling in New South Wales, Queensland or Victoria? + Every state runs its own home education registration process, and the requirements vary. Euka’s Registration Service was built to remove the guesswork. You fill out a short questionnaire, Euka prepares the documentation including the individualised curriculum learning plan, and you submit it to your state’s home education unit. “We had families spending weeks navigating department websites and trying to write their own education plan from scratch. We built the Registration Service so a parent could go from ‘I want to do this’ to ‘my application is in’ in days, not weeks.”— Brett Campbell, CEO Euka Future Learning The state-specific pages walk through what your state expects: homeschooling in NSW, homeschooling in Queensland, homeschooling in Victoria, and the full set sits on the Why Homeschool hub. Is it too late to start homeschooling in Year 11 or Year 12? + No. Year 11 and Year 12 are the years parents assume they cannot move out of, and it is the assumption that holds the most families back unnecessarily. Senior students wh

    26 min

  2. Jun 3

    From School Bullying to Homeschooling Across 40 Countries as a Single Mum with 3 Daughters | 43

    What does it look like to raise three daughters across 40 countries, build Let’s Go Mum into a million-follower family travel platform, and watch your eldest receive a conditional offer to study law? In this episode of Future Learners, Ellen Brown sits down with Barbara Bryan founder of Let’s Go Mum, for a warm, honest conversation about real-world learning, the flexibility homeschooling unlocks, and what happens after homeschooling. Barbara’s story starts with a hard chapter: persistent bullying in primary school that the system could not resolve. After six months of trying to work through the proper channels, Barbara pulled her girls out and was funnelled into distance education. It served its purpose, but it was rigid, repetitive, and felt like “feeding the monster” rather than learning. When she discovered Euka, everything changed. “We got our life back. The girls actually started to learn, and to learn about what they wanted to learn about as well. It was a revelation.”— Barbara Bryan, Founder of Let’s Go Mum From that point on, life and learning began to travel together. Dinosaur bones in real life. The Eiffel Tower in person. Hadrian’s Wall on foot. Maths and writing done in the car, in the evenings, or in short focussed blocks before the next adventure. And in school holidays, when the rest of the country was queuing for theme parks, Barbara’s family was working, because the world is cheaper, quieter, and far more open when you can travel outside the school calendar. The most moving moment comes near the end. Barbara’s eldest, recently finished with Euka, has received a conditional offer to study law and is already excelling in her university preparation. The pathway concern that worries so many homeschooling parents — what happens after? — has a clear, real answer in her family. Key Discussion Points Building Let’s Go Mum: How Barbara grew Let’s Go Mum into a family travel platform with more than one million followers across channels. The bullying that changed everything: Why six months of trying to fix the situation through school and the education department was, in hindsight, six months too long, and what Barbara would tell her past self. Distance education vs homeschooling: The difference between being on a treadmill of repetitive coursework and having a flexible, child-led program that fits family life. Learning across 40 countries: Why standing in front of an artefact, a landmark, or a working museum changes how children retain and connect ideas. The rhythm that actually works: Short focussed study blocks, schoolwork before and after trips for shorter holidays, and rolling daily work into long-haul travel for bigger journeys. Confidence over qualifications: Why parents do not need to be the teacher. The program is written by qualified teachers and delivered to the student; parents facilitate and support. What happens after Year 12: Barbara’s eldest received a conditional offer to study law, and her youngest is following her own passion. Real homeschool graduates, real pathways. Advice for parents thinking about starting mid-year: If you know it is the right move, just start. You do not need to wait for the start of the year. When School Stops Working: How Euka Became the Way Out Before Euka, Barbara’s family was stuck. Persistent physical bullying in primary school was, in her words, “flat-out abuse.” She tried every level of the education department for six months and got nowhere. The system’s answer was distance education, which felt rigid, repetitive, and like “feeding the monster.” Then she discovered Euka. “Euka came in like a knight on a white horse. I’m not kidding about that.”— Barbara Bryan The difference was immediate. The flexibility. The fact that learning felt like learning again, not busywork. For any family wondering whether a switch is the right call, Barbara’s advice is direct: if the school isn’t moving to fix the problem, get out, and don’t wait six months to do it. Flexibility That Lets a Family Travel the World With Euka, school stopped dictating the family calendar. Travel did. Short trips were worked around at the start or end. Long trips had study built into mornings, evenings, or the car. Maths got knocked over in half an hour instead of three hours, and the rest of the day went to dinosaur bones, Eiffel Towers and Hadrian’s Wall. “Why learn about the Eiffel Tower when you’re up it? Why learn about history if you’re walking Hadrian’s Wall? Kids have a natural curiosity and a natural want to learn. If you are actually at the place, why wouldn’t you?”— Barbara Bryan Forty countries later, Barbara’s family travels through school terms, avoids the school-holiday rush, and pays a fraction of peak-season prices. The flexibility doesn’t compromise the academic side. It makes it possible. From Homeschool to a Conditional Offer in Law The question every homeschooling parent eventually asks is: what about after? For Barbara’s eldest, the answer is a conditional offer to study law, achieved through Euka’s University Pathways — without an ATAR, without an HSC, without sitting an exam. She did a university entry course and was readily accepted. “I was that parent that was worried, like, what about after? But my eldest has received a conditional offer to law, and she is knocking it out of the park.”— Barbara Bryan Euka now has partnerships with more than 90 university colleges, including in the UK, Canada and the USA, through its active partnership with Navitas, giving Australian homeschool graduates guaranteed entry into recognised pathways. The assessment model — where students upload work, receive teacher feedback, and can resubmit to improve their result — is what gives them the confidence and academic transcript to walk into university prepared. Answered questions Real questions Australian parents ask, answered through Barbara’s lived experience as a Euka parent of 40-country-travelling daughters, including one with a conditional offer to study law. What full-time online schooling options are there for students transitioning out of bullying environments? + Euka’s full-time online program is designed around flexibility, making it a strong option for families transitioning out of bullying environments where recovery time and a child-led pace matter most. Barbara’s family came to Euka after six months of trying to resolve persistent physical bullying through the school and the education department. Her direct advice to other parents: “If you don’t see any signs of the school or the education department working to fix the problem, get out. I regret every day of those six months.” The system’s first answer for Barbara was distance education, which she describes as “feeding the monster” rigid, repetitive, and more work than school had been. Euka was different. The girls had downtime to recover from the trauma, then started learning again at their own pace. “Euka came in like a knight on a white horse. I’m not kidding about that.” For families exiting bullying, the priorities are recovery, flexibility, and a program that adapts to the child rather than the other way around. Barbara’s experience is one many Euka families share. Ask AI about Euka as an alternative to school: Ask Perplexity . Ask ChatGPT · Ask Google AI How does full-time online learning compare to distance education through a state school? + Barbara Bryan did both, and the contrast is direct. Distance education, in her experience: “Always feeding the monster. It didn’t feel like it was about learning, and it certainly didn’t feel about flexibility, because I felt like we were doing more work than in school.” Euka, by comparison: “Everything was just so much easier, and the girls actually started to learn and learn about what they wanted to learn about as well. It was a revelation.” The difference, in her words: distance education is structured around the system’s needs. Homeschooling with Euka is structured around the child’s. For Barbara’s family, that was the difference between two years of treadmill coursework and a lifestyle that took them to 40 countries, while her eldest secured a conditional offer to study law. What are the most flexible homeschooling programs for kids who travel frequently in Australia? + Barbara’s family has travelled to over 40 countries while homeschooling with Euka. Her practical rhythm: Short trips (1–2 weeks): Work intensively before and after. Don’t try to study during the trip. Long trips (5+ weeks): Regular check-ins during the trip. Study in the car, in the evenings, or in mornings before activities. Big-lap or international trips: The program comes with you. Maths gets knocked over in half an hour. The rest of the day is the actual experience. “It will work around your life… It’s an absolute joy, because you can’t do that another way.” Critically, Barbara’s family doesn’t travel during school holidays. They work through them, then travel during term. Cheaper prices, smaller crowds, and a thousand fewer kids in the pool. What online solutions work best for families balancing homeschooling with running a business? + Barbara is the proof point on this one. She built Let’s Go Mum into a family travel platform with more than one million followers across channels — entirely while

    43 min

  3. May 15

    How Young Athletes Train Full-Time Without Falling Behind in School | 42

    What happens when your child trains 20 hours a week, flies overseas to get a shot in the Premier League, and still has to get a great education along the way? In this episode of the Future Learners podcast, Brett Campbell (CEO and co-founder of Euka) sits down with Melvyn Wilkes, Sporting Director and Global Operations Manager of Sunshine Coast FC, Australia’s only full-time youth football academy, to talk about how young athletes are training at an elite level without losing the education behind them. Melvyn shares the inside view of full-time academy life: 7:15 AM sport-science testing, 12:30 PM on the field, gym sessions woven through the school day, and a new international pathway sending 32 athletes a year to play in elite UK youth competitions. He also speaks plainly about what mainstream education does (and doesn’t) handle well for high-performance kids, why mental load matters as much as training load, and what changed for his athletes once they switched to Euka’s flexible learning model. If your child trains, performs, competes, or travels at a level that does not fit a 9-to-3 desk, this episode is for you. Key Points: What Euka is making possible for young athletes: A real education pathway for kids whose week does not fit a 9-to-3 desk Lessons that travel with the athlete across states, across countries, across competition calendars The Australian Curriculum delivered the same way regardless of where the athlete is training that month A partnership with Sunshine Coast FC that has unlocked Australian players competing in elite UK youth football Why Euka students are outperforming their peers: “You would be shocked at how well a Euka Future Learning student performs.” Quote from Melvyn, Sporting Director of Sunshine Coast FC Flexible timing means lessons fit around training, not the other way around, and the brain that learns is a brain that has not been worn down by a rigid timetable Athletes on Euka land the same Australian Curriculum outcomes as peers in mainstream school, but are visibly less stressed Self-paced learning builds time management as a side effect, a skill that pays off long after the playing career Why mainstream school stops working for serious athletes: Rigid school timetables pile mental load on top of training load Moving interstate or overseas for sport resets the curriculum every time Even a single inflexible class can hijack a child the night before training and the day after Exam-condition rules are built for a 9-to-3 student, not a kid in a different city every fortnight How the Euka and Sunshine Coast FC partnership came together: Sunshine Coast FC needed an education partner who could align athletes from multiple states into a single squad heading overseas Mainstream and distance-education models could not solve the state-to-state curriculum mismatch Euka’s self-paced, curriculum-aligned model meant every athlete arrived in the UK on the same academic page The partnership now supports athletes training in Australia and competing in the UK in elite youth leagues When this matters for your family: Your child is training, performing or competing at a level that needs daytime hours Your week already does not fit inside 9 to 3, and you are tired of forcing it You want the education to keep up with the sport, not the other way around You want your child to perform better at school, not in spite of the sport, but because of how the model is built Australia’s only full-time youth football academy: how it started When Sunshine Coast FC went full-time in July 2020, the rest of the country thought they were mad. The pandemic had just turned the world upside down, and here was a football club on the Queensland coast tearing up the part-time academy model and committing to something nobody else in Australia was doing. Five years later, the bet has paid off. What started with 26 student athletes in a single building has grown into 180 full-time athletes across four sporting codes (football, basketball, netball and dance) with academic tuition delivered through their partner school, Peregian Beach College. Sunshine Coast FC funds the academic side. The sporting operation funds the school. It is the only setup of its kind in the country. For Melvyn, the model copies what works at the sharp end of European football. “We worked closely with the academic team and the principal to devise a timetable which could encompass training within the day without cutting any corners on the education,” he explained. The point was never to be a school with extra footy on the side. It was to mirror Premier League youth academies, where training and learning sit beside each other from the start. Australia as a whole has got some exceptionally talented young people, particularly in the football fraternity. We wanted to open the network up and give them an opportunity. — Melvyn Wilkes, Sunshine Coast FC What a week at the academy actually looks like Monday is recovery. The athletes have competed on the weekend, so the first coaching contact comes Monday afternoon. There is a strength and conditioning session during the day, but the body is the priority. Tuesday is the heaviest day. Athletes report at 7:15 AM for sport-science testing. Heart-rate variability, thermal muscle scans, baseline data collection. The team uses platforms like Polar and Apollo Sciences to track recovery and readiness across the week. After testing, academic lessons run until lunchtime, then the athletes are on the field from 12:30 PM through to roughly 4:30 PM. Wednesday opens with a 7:15 AM technical session on the field, then academic lessons through the middle of the day, then back on the field from mid-afternoon until 5 PM. Thursday is the “lighter” day, where the athletes report to school as normal, do academic lessons until early afternoon, then complete a final field session by 4:30 PM. Friday is a deliberate taper. One short session at midday so the body is fresh for competition on Saturday or Sunday. “We worked closely with the academic team to devise a timetable that could encompass training within the day, without cutting any corners on the education.”— Melvyn Wilkes, Sunshine Coast FC Australian football meets the English FA: the international pathway In 2023, Sunshine Coast FC made the call to take Australian players to where the elite youth competition actually is. Melvyn, originally from the UK and still well-connected through the football fraternity there, legally affiliated the club in the United Kingdom under the name Sunshine Coast FC UK. That gave the program access to some of the most robust youth competitions in the world at Under-16, Under-18 and Under-23 level, with a senior men’s space launching soon. The response from Australian families was enormous. 167 applications for 32 spots in last year’s intake. Players came from Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney, Cairns, regional Queensland and even New Zealand. For an aspiring footballer in Australia, this is genuinely the closest pathway to Premier League football most kids will ever get. It is also the moment Sunshine Coast FC ran headfirst into the problem that mainstream schooling could not solve for them: every state runs a slightly different version of the Australian Curriculum, and Year 11 to Year 12 progression rules differ from one state to the next. When you are recruiting 32 athletes from five states and trying to send them to the UK as a single squad, that fragmentation makes coordination almost impossible. “You can sense it when you’re around these athletes. The ones doing the future learning program have a more relaxed persona.”— Melvyn Wilkes, Sunshine Coast FC Why mainstream school stopped working for high-performance athletes This is the part of the conversation Melvyn was most direct about, and worth quoting carefully. Sunshine Coast FC was not built to knock mainstream education. They still have athletes enrolled in mainstream programs in the UK, and many do well. The point is more honest than that. The athletes on Euka’s flexible learning model are observably less stressed than the athletes still navigating mainstream timetables, exam conditions, and rigid attendance rules. Melvyn lives with these kids for stretches at a time when they are in the UK. He sees the difference. For a child who is already carrying the mental load of competing at an elite level, a single inflexible class on a Wednesday morning can become the thing they think about for 24 hours either side. Multiply that across a week, and the cumulative cost on performance and wellbeing is real. “You would be shocked at how well a Euka Future Learning student performs, compared to those learning distance-ed or in person, because it’s a more relaxed environment.”— Melvyn Wilkes, Sunshine Coast FC This is consistent with what Euka has seen across its own family base. Approximately 5 percent of Euka students are aspiring athletes, including Olympic athletes, world champions, and the next wave of professional-track competitors. The pattern is the same: flexibility in when and how the learning happens removes a layer of stress that no amount of resilience training can replace. How Euka fits a full-time training schedule Three things in particular make Euka’s program work for the Sunshine Coast FC model It travels. An athlete in Brisbane, Adelaide or rural Queensland gets the same curriculum as an athlete on a UK road trip in November. The state of residence stops being a constraint. So does the country. It is self-paced. When training takes precedence on a Tuesday afternoon, the lessons do not vanish. They sit there waiting for the athlete, ready to be picked up on Sunday evening or in the back of the team bus. There is no pen

    34 min

  4. May 6

    Meet the Upgraded Euka Learning Experience | 041

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I'm your host, Brett Campbell, CEO and co-founder of Euka, and I'm joined by the one and only — the amazing founder and Head of Education of Euka, Ellen Brown. Today is an exciting episode for us, because we're going to do a couple of things we haven't done before. Firstly, we're going to do a screen share. So if you're listening on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, you can absolutely keep listening — we'll explain everything as we go. But if you want the visual representation, head over to our YouTube channel. Brett: What we're going to share today is something we've been working on for the last 18 months. Hundreds of people have been involved. It's been quite a feat. And today we're absolutely excited to share our brand-new Learning Experience — what we've been building for our students and families. Ellen: I'm really excited because I love the opportunity to share what we've been working on, but also to help parents know how to best use it and adapt it for their child to get the most out of it. Brett: Ten out of ten? Ellen: Ten out of ten. Of course. We've put our blood, sweat and tears into it. Brett: This is exciting for a number of reasons. If you've been a Euka family — and many have been with us for many, many years — you'll see the evolution. From the outset we've always said we want to build the future of education and support as many families as we possibly can. With technology and big commitments from our side, we believe this is going to elevate the experience across the board. Eighteen months in the making, but really, ten or fifteen years in the making. Brett: So as you'll see, here you are now — the view if you're a student, or a parent with a student, who's logged into the learning platform. One key difference: we've identified that primary school, secondary school, and senior school are different cohorts. Not just from a grade level perspective, but an age-appropriateness level. Brett: What we've got now — and something we're really excited about — is providing a visual experience that's age-appropriate. Looking here at a Grade 3 student: we've got our little mascot Echo nice and prominent, soft colour palette. Move into Secondary and Echo's not as prominent. He's a little bit cooler, grown up a bit. Then we move into our Senior grades — I don't know too many 15, 16 or 17-year-olds who want to have a big koala sitting on their screen. So we've removed that as the grade appropriateness changes. Brett: One key thing — when we built this program, we went into it with the intention of making sure it's as intuitive and as simple as possible. We don't want to overcomplicate things. So we've kept the best of what we had originally and morphed it into what we'd call the future of learning here. Brett: You've got a couple of different ways to explore. You can explore and learn by terms, or you can explore and learn by subjects. If you click into terms, it shows you our four terms. Click into a term and you see the weeks. Click into Week 1 and you see the lessons for that week. Or you can explore by subjects. Click into English and see what the English lessons per week are. Ellen: That's something parents have asked for before. We packaged it in terms and weeks — most people like that — but parents have said, can I please get a whole subject to be able to do once with my particular child? So it's exciting that parents now have that choice. Brett: Another really exciting thing is our reporting function. We have two stages now. Base reporting is added to our program — every family gets that at a high level. And we have government reporting, which is a separate thing. Each lesson, as you progress, shows what's been accomplished and what's still to go. Brett: Coming back to the main dashboard — you'll see progress in the top right showing how many lessons are completed. As your child progresses, they'll get certificates they can download. We also have a materials list — the essentials you'll need, the practical activity items, and any books associated with the curriculum. Ellen: Don't feel that you have to buy every book. You can find audiobooks online, YouTube has lots of read-alouds. Don't get hung up on it, especially in the younger grades where you have picture books. And the library, of course. Brett: Let's click Start Lessons. We're starting Term 1, Week 1. Maths lesson two. Ellen: What we've tried to do is run people through a progression of learning. Sometimes you'll learn something and that'll be the end of a lesson. But that's not the end of learning. Often, as you know, if you've read or listened to something and you don't actually use it, it can be lost very easily. Ellen: So we have a Practice activity that comes after the bulk of the learning — a chance to actually get hands-on. Not everybody loves hands-on learning, and if your child doesn't, you can move past it. That's one of the things I really want parents to know — they're not in a situation where every single thing needs to be done. It's about adapting this for your child. Ellen: The Apply activity is really exciting for parents because it gives an opportunity to know that their student is getting instant feedback. You're not sitting down at the end of the day with an answer sheet trying to remember what they did at 10am that morning. They need instant feedback. That's the Apply section. Ellen: And finally, the Reflect section — the opportunity for the child to think about their own learning. Not just what they learned but how they learned, how they were feeling when they learned. That's really important for parents, because sometimes — especially in those teenage years — kids don't always verbalise how they're feeling. Brett: Here we have the introduction for every single lesson, with the learning objectives. It's very important when someone's on a quest to learn something — what am I actually learning here? And then a question I always had at school: why did I have to do algebra? So we share with our students why this lesson matters and provide context. Brett: Then we move into the Learn section. Then the Practice activity. In this Grade 3 maths lesson on representing halves, thirds and quarters, the practical activity is to build a Play-Doh pizza and cut it into fractions. Some lessons might have a comic strip. Stages of plant life cycles? You might build a diorama. Brett: Then we move into the Apply section — applying that knowledge. We have the online component with digital questions. Multiple choice, fill in the sentence, drag and drop. And something we hold true at Euka: while we are an educational technology platform, we don't want a

    31 min

  5. Jan 30

    The World Is Your Classroom: Travel Schooling with The Slow Road | 040

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Kirianna discusses their philosophy of “slow learning,” practical strategies for offline education, and how they integrate real-world experiences into their Euka curriculum. Her insights provide inspiration for families considering travel schooling or simply wanting to bring more flexibility and real-world connection into their homeschooling journey. In this podcast Introduction to Travel Schooling The Slow Road Family and Their Journey Philosophy of Slow Learning Integrating Learning with Travel Offline Learning Strategies Living in a Small Space Travel Highlights and Cultural Experiences Support from Euka and Future Plans Key Insights for Families Your Family, Your Journey function scrollToHeading(text) { var headings = document.querySelectorAll('h2, h3, h4'); for (var i = 0; i Key Points: Travel Schooling Definition: Family of five travels in 1962 VW Combi "Izzy" Currently based in Japan; children aged 9, 6, and 3 Philosophy of Slow Learning: Taking things at life's pace; learning through play and exploration Flexible scheduling that works with each child's natural rhythms Practical Strategies: Print worksheets and box resources by term for offline learning  Integrate real-world experiences (markets, monuments, trains) into curriculum Euka Support: Downloadable and printable resources suit travel lifestyle Responsive support team; YouTube tutorials for getting organised Introduction to Travel Schooling The world really can be your classroom. For Kirianna and her family of five, this isn't just a motto—it's their daily reality. Living in a vintage 1962 Volkswagen split-screen Combi named Izzy, they've discovered that learning doesn't need four walls. It just needs curiosity, flexibility, and the right support. Currently in Japan with her husband Lockie and their three children—Riley (9), Alba (6), and Elsie (3)—Kirianna shared how they balance exploration with education, and why travel schooling has become their family's way of life. The Slow Road Family and Their Journey Kirianna and Lockie's journey into travel schooling wasn't always the plan. Both coming from aviation backgrounds, they'd always had the travel bug. They started travelling just before COVID, initially wanting to see more of Australia. What began as an adventure evolved into something more permanent when they realised their son Riley needed an education approach that suited his active, outdoorsy nature. "We just tried to search for ways where we could educate him to be an outdoorsy boy, still get out and explore the world, but also have a stable homeschooling background," Kirianna explained. Their research led them to Euka. The COVID pandemic, while challenging for many, actually helped normalise their lifestyle choice. "Everyone could see that kids could still be outdoors and learn, or still travel," Kirianna reflected. This shift in perspective gave them confidence to commit to travel schooling as a long-term approach. "Learning is just a part of life. We are all natural learners and enthusiastic learners."— Kirianna, The Slow Road Philosophy of Slow Learning The family's approach centres on what Kirianna calls "slow learning"—a philosophy that extends beyond education into their entire lifestyle. Living in a vintage Combi naturally takes you back a few years, she notes. The family tries to live like they're back in the 1960s: getting muddy, learning through play, and connecting with different cultures. "I think the slow aspect comes from just taking things as life can," Kirianna shared. "From a little boy, we figured that he just needed to take his time with his learning and really grasp his surroundings. That would build this foundation for him to grow and learn at his own pace." This philosophy recognises that children—particularly active boys like Riley—often need flexibility. Rather than forcing extended periods of desk work, the family works with their children's natural rhythms. A morning worksheet, followed by time to run, swim, and explore, then returning to learning when energy has been expended and focus is restored. Integrating Learning with Travel One of the biggest questions families have about travel schooling is practical: how do you actually blend education with exploration? Kirianna shared how they make learning relevant by connecting it to real-world experiences. When Alba had a geography worksheet about Cairns, she could draw on her experience of actually snorkelling there. In Japan, the children learn about currencies and money by using train cards and shopping at markets. They visit monuments like Tokyo's Sky Tree and connect those experiences to their Euka lessons. "A lot of the times we will go on an excursion and somehow, without even realising it, it kind of falls int

    23 min

  6. 02/14/2025

    He earns 30K a year and homeschools | 038

    Host Brett Campbell speaks with Brent and Maverick about their journey into homeschooling and why they chose an alternative to traditional schooling. They discuss misconceptions about homeschooling, the flexibility of Grade 11 & 12 homeschooling, and how it helped them balance study, work, and future goals. They also highlight the importance of family support and […] The post He earns 30K a year and homeschools | 038 appeared first on Euka.

    35 min

  7. 01/23/2025

    What you need to know about homeschooling in 2025 | 037

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The conversation also highlights personal growth for parents and the exciting developments coming to Euka in 2025. Tune into this episode on Apple Podcasts here.  Key Points: Planning Ahead: Preparing early is key to a successful homeschooling year. Starting the Conversation: Discussing homeschooling goals and expectations helps set the tone for the year. Reflecting on Progress: Evaluating what worked and what didn’t last year ensures continuous improvement. Celebrating Milestones: Recognising achievements can make the homeschooling experience more rewarding. Community Connections: Building relationships with local groups can provide valuable support and opportunities. Flexible Learning: Homeschooling allows families to customise educa

    28 min

  8. 09/18/2024

    Is School Going “WOKE”? | 036

    Brett Campbell and Ellen Brown discuss the growing concerns among parents regarding the influence of educational philosophies that emphasise social and political issues in the school curriculum. They delve into the shift from traditional core subjects to more socially driven content, sparking debates about whether this aligns with parents’ values and how it affects children’s development. The discussion also touches on the increasing number of families choosing homeschooling as a response to these concerns, allowing them to control the curriculum and timing of sensitive topics for their children. Tune into this episode on Apple Podcasts here.  Key Points: Educational Shift: The curriculum is moving away from traditional subjects toward more socially and politically driven content. Parental Concerns: Many parents are worried about the introduction of social topics at an age they consider too young. Homeschooling Response: Some parents are turning to homeschooling to have more control over the curriculum and timing of certain topics. Impact of Social Media: Children are increasingly exposed to complex topics through social media at a young age. Teacher Influence: There is concern about teachers shaping children’s beliefs beyond academic subjects. Parental Involvement: The episode urges parents to take a more active role in understanding and guiding their children’s education. The post Is School Going “WOKE”? | 036 appeared first on Euka.

    27 min
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Welcome to Future Learners. Join us, as we embark on a journey to empower students, parents, and educators, as we navigate the ever-evolving landscape of education, schooling and what it takes to grow and succeed in today’s world. This podcast is brought to you by Euka future learning. Australia’s largest online, full-time education provider for K-12 students seeking a flexible, relevant & meaningful education. Visit euka.edu.au for more.

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    Euka Future Learning
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    34
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    Future Learners

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