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Homeschooling in Ireland

Registration with Tusla involves an assessment conversation about your educational provision. Having a documented, sequenced curriculum makes that conversation short and straightforward.

Tusla AEARSEURAround 2,000 registered children

Legal status

Constitutionally protected; families register with Tusla's Alternative Education Assessment and Registration Service.

Regulator

Tusla AEARS

School year

September–June

Common curricula

Oxford-aligned, Primary Curriculum aligned, Montessori

What to do first in Ireland

Before choosing a curriculum, establish your legal position. It takes about an hour and prevents the single most common source of first-year stress. Constitutionally protected; families register with Tusla's Alternative Education Assessment and Registration Service. Contact Tusla AEARS to confirm what applies to your family, write down exactly what you owe and by when, and put the deadlines in a calendar.

  1. 1Confirm the current requirements with Tusla AEARS.
  2. 2Write down every deadline and diarise it.
  3. 3Choose two subjects to do properly — maths and English — and leave the rest for term two.
  4. 4Block out the hours you will actually teach, then protect them.
  5. 5Set up record-keeping on day one rather than in the week before a review.

What Fayferz families in Ireland tell us matters

  • Assessment-ready documentation of subjects, methods and materials.
  • Literacy and numeracy strands align with the Primary Curriculum.
  • Suits families combining home education with local sports and Irish-language classes.

Homeschooling in Ireland: common questions

Is homeschooling legal in Ireland?

Yes. Constitutionally protected; families register with Tusla's Alternative Education Assessment and Registration Service. The body responsible is Tusla AEARS. Requirements change from time to time, so confirm the current position with them before you withdraw a child from school or begin teaching at home.

Which curriculum do homeschooling families in Ireland usually follow?

The most common choices are Oxford-aligned, Primary Curriculum aligned, Montessori. Fayferz provides an Oxford-aligned sequence for FYP, KG and Grades 1–8, with downloadable mapping documents so you can show how our units correspond to the local scheme.

What records should I keep in Ireland?

Four documents answer almost every request: a dated attendance log, a written learning plan listing subjects and assessment methods, two or three dated work samples per subject per term, and assessment results over time. Fayferz generates all four from your children's course activity and exports them as PDFs.

When does the Ireland school year run?

September–June. Fayferz courses are sequenced by lesson number rather than by calendar date, so you can start at any point in the year and a missed week never leaves you out of step.

This guide is general information for orientation, not legal advice. Confirm your obligations with Tusla AEARS before acting on anything here.

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Courses families here start with

Oxford-aligned sequences that transfer cleanly into British-curriculum schools anywhere in the world — useful whether you plan to stay home or return to school later.

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