Standard 14: Delivery of the Curriculum

‍The Registration Requirement

Under the Guide to the registration standards and other requirements for non-government schools effective 1 January 2024, the Director General must be satisfied that your proposed school has and implements clear procedures to ensure its curriculum delivery satisfies the structural frameworks established under the School Education Act 1999 (WA). Your proposed school's governing body and executive leadership team hold ultimate legislative and operational accountability for ensuring that all online educational courses directly satisfy the guidelines set out by the School Curriculum and Standards Authority (SCSA).

To satisfy this standard, your proposed online school must demonstrate an integrated, multi layered teaching framework before opening. This requires holding board endorsed teaching and learning guidelines, implementing rigorous prospective assessment and reporting schedules, mapping clear student tracking protocols, and maintaining explicit eligibility policies to manage distance learners. To meet the Department's basic rules, this initial online delivery framework must be fully submitted as part of your comprehensive pre-operational application paperwork.

💡 Expert Compliance Note: Standard 14 is a binary, zero tolerance standard during an initial registration review. For a brand new virtual school entity, case managers cannot audit a history of live student interaction logs, completed exam papers, or active assessment tracking ledgers. Instead, they will thoroughly examine your proposed enrolment eligibility criteria, blank lesson templates, draft assessment policies, and online safety blueprints. Planning to operate a single day of virtual school operations without demonstrating a strict enrolment eligibility validation block, or failing to prove that the governing body maintains uncompromised control over independent coursework authentication metrics, will trigger an immediate compliance flag during your pre-operational review. The templates in our system are engineered from the ground up to stop these issues before they start.

‍Official References

The application form and guide are available for download via the links below.

👉 Application for registration document.

‍ 👉 Guide to the registration standards and other requirements for non-government schools effective 1 January 2024‍ ‍

Your Downloadable Template Bundle

‍Your membership includes full access to our Delivery of the Curriculum Templates Bundle. This all in one ZIP file contains every document, policy, and register required to build a compliant framework.

👉 Download Delivery of the Curriculum Templates Bundle ZIP File

‍📌 Please Note: Not all of these templates will suit your school, but they give you a good range to get through registration.

‍Inside your download, you will find:

• Academic Policies, Assessment, and Delivery

  Academic Integrity and Plagiarism Agreement

  Assessment and Reporting Policy and Procedures

  Assessment Appeal Form

  Examination Rules and Responsibilities Policy

  Homework Policy

  Boarding Academic Support and Co-Curricular Policy and Procedure

  Remote Online Teaching and Learning Policy

  Code of Conduct Remote Online Learning Policy

• Differentiated Learning and Diverse Pathways

  Gifted and Talented Education Policy

  Gifted and Talented Acceleration Trial Review Log

  Student Workplace Learning, Apprenticeships and Traineeships Policy

  Student Workplace Learning Management Plan

  Student Workplace Learning Parent Consent Form

Internal Proposed Evidence

Recommended Checklist for Part B Submission: To help build out your submission folder for Part B of the Application for initial registration, we recommend gathering these key internal files from your school records. Please note that while these specific documents are recommended to help evidence your compliance, this is a practical guide rather than an exhaustive checklist.

• Proposed Online Only Learning Eligibility Policy: Your finalised, comprehensive school policy outlining the exact criteria used to assess and verify the eligibility of students to enrol in online learning.

• Blank Alternative Delivery Enrolment Register Template: A blank copy of your proposed central student database layout, proving it features separate fields to log and monitor an applicant's WA statutory eligibility gate.

• Blank Assessment Appeal and Dispute Templates: Pro-forma intake forms and review frameworks designed to ensure student grading disputes are managed with full procedural fairness.

• Blank Academic Integrity Pledge Forms: Pro-forma Academic Integrity and Plagiarism Agreements ready to be distributed to future secondary cohorts to manage coursework authentication.

• Proposed Remote Teacher Interaction and Contact Logs: Master template formats or timetables designed to ensure that off-site enrolees receive regular, direct instruction from a TRBWA registered teacher.

• Proposed Resource and Equivalency Audit Checklists: Draft internal curriculum review sheets designed to prove that future online learning materials, rubrics, and digital platforms match the structural quality of on-site delivery.

• Blank Workplace Learning Management Plan Templates: Pro-forma vocational training agreements and parental consent sheets built to monitor off-site student safety and curriculum tracking.

• Proposed Schedule of Online Assessment Conditions: A documented framework detailing how remote testing environments will apply secure examination guidelines and monitor academic honesty.

• Blank Individual Education Plan (IEP) Templates: Pro-forma learning support profiles designed to map curriculum adjustments and accommodate diverse learning needs remotely.

Compliance Tips & Hidden Requirements

School registration reviews in WA have a few unique, specific traps that catch boards out. Make sure your team knows these hidden rules:

• The Restricted Distance Education Scope (Pages 54–55): Your proposed school cannot simply operate an open ended virtual campus for any applicant who prefers to study from home. Under Standard 14, the provision of educational programmes exclusively via online learning is heavily restricted. To clear an initial review, your mandatory eligibility policy must prove that student intake is limited strictly to the explicit, statutory Western Australian eligibility gates: geographical isolation, temporary travel, elite performance commitments, or a verified inability to attend a physical school due to diagnosed physical or mental illness.

• The Registered Teacher Delivery Mandate (Page 55): A common operational trap for online learning models is relying too heavily on pre-recorded modules or parent supervisors to guide the learner. Under Standard 14, the school remains legally responsible for the active standard of curriculum delivery. Your procedures must explicitly guarantee that every virtual program is directly taught, monitored, and assessed by an instructor who holds current registration with the Teacher Registration Board of Western Australia (TRBWA).

• The Learning Support and Accommodation Rule (Page 55): Standard 14 explicitly requires that alternative curriculum delivery models must adapt to the specific learning, cultural, and spiritual needs of your specific student cohort. Case managers will inspect your blank learning templates to verify that students requiring alternative delivery options will be provided with targeted Individual Education Plans (IEPs) or specialised adjustments for English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D).

• The Continuous SCSA Assessment Lock (Page 55): Operating an online delivery track does not lift your statutory curriculum and assessment requirements with the School Curriculum and Standards Authority (SCSA). Your workflows must prove that remote learners will complete equivalent, validated assessment items under secure conditions, ensuring their grades can be legitimately uploaded to the SCSA portal for their Western Australian Statement of Student Achievement (WASSA).

• The Child Safe Digital Supervision Boundary (Standard 10 / Standard 14 Intersect): Delivering curriculum via online only channels introduces significant cyber safety and professional boundary risks handled under Standard 10 child safe structures. Your digital communication procedures must explicitly forbid private, unmonitored digital chats with students outside of school approved hours and mandate that video learning blocks occur on school sanctioned platforms to keep teacher student digital interactions entirely transparent.

• The Attendance to Delivery Integration Link (Standard 6 / Standard 14 Intersect): Your prospective daily attendance tracking configurations and your online course delivery systems must speak the exact same language. Your procedures must prove that distinct, dedicated attendance tracking codes will log a student's ongoing weekly engagement with digital coursework to prevent unauthorised absenteeism data spikes.

House Operational Risk Tips (Not Explicitly in the Guide)

• Mask Technical Software Fields and Keys: When saving your proposed software blueprints, database configuration maps, or sample eligibility spreadsheets to your Part B evidence folder, maintain a strict privacy boundary. All system keys, database rows, or mock student data indicators must be completely blocked out or replaced with standard placeholders like [ID Number Redacted] to satisfy strict administrative data protection expectations.

• Remove Personal Names from Educational Plans: Ensure your draft individualised education plans, special consideration forms, and sample medical adjustment templates utilise entirely neutral tags like Student A or Case Profile B instead of real personal names before saving copies to the compliance folder.

• Enforce Secure Document Version Controls: Lock cell editing configurations or apply secure password encryption to your central curriculum adjustment spreadsheets and assessment templates on your shared drive. This stops casual updates from accidentally altering your board approved assessment metrics before they are evaluated by your case manager.

Compliance Quick Check

Before you finish, double check that your school leadership has completed and marked off these specific items required on the official initial application form:

• Have you attached a comprehensive copy of your proposed school’s policy for assessing the eligibility of students to enrol in online only learning?

• Can you prove through your software manuals that every off-site lesson block and online assessment module is under the direct, active supervision of a TRBWA registered teacher?

• Does your proposed student database layout feature separate, explicit tracking fields to register and monitor an enrolee's WA statutory eligibility gate?

• Are your finalised online assessment frameworks designed to ensure that distance learners complete equivalent, validated assessment items under secure conditions?

📌 Now don’t forget to save your evidence in your created folder in your school's shared drive (Google Drive or OneDrive).