Yukon Homeschool Education Plan (2026): What It Must Cover and How to Write It

Verified June 2026 against the Yukon Education Act, the Home Education Regulations, and the Government of Yukon homeschooling registration page.

Yukon Education Plan at a Glance

What it is	Your plan for the home education program, one per child
Where it goes	The Minister, through Aurora Virtual School
When	Before the program starts
Time span	A minimum of three school years
Must describe	Learning activities, curriculum, and resources
Must build	The basic skills named in the Education Act
The basic skills	Literacy, listening, speaking, reading, writing, numeracy, mathematics, analysis, problem solving, information processing, computing
Approval	Required; AVS helps you meet it

What the Education Plan Is

The education plan is your description of how you will teach your child at home, and Yukon requires it before your program starts. You prepare one plan for each child and submit it to the Minister, working through Aurora Virtual School, which manages home education registration and support in the territory. The plan has to be approved, and it is what the territory uses to confirm your program meets the Education Act requirement for a satisfactory home education program.

This is different from what most provinces ask for. Manitoba wants a single notification with no plan at all. Ontario requires nothing beyond a withdrawal letter. Yukon asks you to show, in writing, that your program will deliver the skills the law names, across a multi-year span, before you start teaching. The plan is the most substantial piece of registering, and getting it right the first time is easier than revising it under pressure. The material reimbursement and course funding that Yukon offers are also set up through the same registration process, so the plan and the funding go hand in hand. See the Yukon homeschool funding guide for how those two pieces connect.

The Three-Year Requirement

Unlike a yearly notice in other jurisdictions, the Yukon plan must cover every year of your home education program, a minimum of three school years. You are not describing the year ahead in isolation. You are setting out the arc of the next three: where your child is starting, what they will build in each of those years, and what curriculum and resources you will use to get there. The Minister approves the program, not just the first year, and the plan has to show that the whole program hangs together.

For most families, that span raises a question: how do you plan three years out when you have not started yet? The answer is that the plan is a direction, not a script. You describe the approach and the resources you intend to use across the years, and you update it each September when you re-register. You are not locked in to every detail you wrote when you started. The plan gives the Minister a credible picture of a multi-year program; you deliver the details month to month as you teach.

Many families find the three-year view makes them more settled, not less. When you know where you are headed across the next few years, the decisions about this September feel smaller. The pressure of planning everything for one year at a time, over and over, is part of what wears home educators down. A coherent multi-year plan removes some of that pressure. Before you write it, get a clear baseline on where your child is. The free reading assessment gives you a measurable starting point in literacy that anchors the first year of the plan and helps you project what the second and third years might look like.

The Basic Skills It Has to Build

The learning activities in your plan must build the basic skills set out in the Education Act. Those skills are: literacy, listening, speaking, reading, writing, numeracy, mathematics, analysis, problem solving, information processing, and computing. Your plan has to show how your program will develop each of these across the years you describe.

It is worth noting what is not on the required list for home education. The Act sets broader goals for schools, covering things like critical and creative thinking, science and technology, and social and environmental responsibility. Those broader goals are not part of the home education requirement. The plan centres on the eleven named basic skills. You can teach far beyond them, and most home educators do, but the plan only has to demonstrate coverage of those eleven areas. That makes the plan more manageable than it first appears: once you know the list, the question for each year becomes how your chosen curriculum addresses each item on it.

Reading and writing sit inside both the literacy requirement and as named skills in their own right, which means your literacy program covers a lot of ground in a single stream. Numeracy and mathematics are listed separately, so a strong math program addresses both. Analysis, problem solving, and information processing are the ones families most often ask about: these are built through subjects like logic puzzles, project-based learning, research activities, and structured thinking tasks. Computing covers digital literacy and basic technology skills. Your AVS coordinator can help you map any curriculum you are considering against the full list of eleven skills.

What to Include for Each Year

For each of the three years your plan covers, you describe the learning activities, the curriculum, and the learning materials and resources you intend to use. That means showing, concretely, how your child will keep building each of the basic skills across those years and what you will use to do it. The format does not need to be elaborate. A clear, organized description that moves through each year and ties each activity and resource to the skills it develops is what the Minister needs to see.

Practically, this looks like: for Year One, the reading curriculum you will use, the writing program, the math program, and the resources or activities that address analysis, problem solving, information processing, and computing. For Year Two, how those programs progress or change as your child advances. For Year Three, what the more senior version of each skill area looks like under your program. You do not need lesson plans or a daily schedule. A clear year-by-year description of the arc is what the plan calls for.

AVS can show you a working format that other families have used successfully. Starting from a format that already meets the requirements is far easier than building one from scratch and then finding out it is missing something. Bring your ideas about curriculum and your child's level to the first conversation with AVS, and let them help you shape those ideas into the plan's structure.

How AVS Helps You Write It

You do not build this plan in isolation. Aurora Virtual School staff help you set up your home education program, create the education plan, and choose resources, and they know exactly what the Minister needs to see in a plan that will be approved. If writing a three-year multi-skill plan sounds daunting, that support is the answer. Bring what you know about your child and the curriculum you are considering, and AVS helps you organize it into a plan that works.

AVS also arranges achievement testing and provincial exams as your child moves through the program, which connects to how progress is monitored. The plan you write is the starting point; the testing and progress monitoring through the year are how the territory confirms the plan is being delivered. Keeping your plan current and your teaching aligned with it is what keeps the monitoring routine rather than a source of concern. Once you have your plan approved and your program running, the guide covers how to turn a multi-subject plan into a manageable weekly schedule that stays deliverable throughout the year.

Keeping the Plan Current

You re-register with AVS each year by September 30 and update the plan at that point to reflect what your child has completed and what comes next. The plan does not stay static from the day you first wrote it; it evolves each year as your child advances through the program. The first year's plan sets the arc. Each annual update sharpens the next year's detail based on what your child has learned and where they are ready to go.

Yukon monitors the program through regular achievement assessment, and the Minister may advise you if your child is not making reasonable progress or offer recommendations. Keeping your plan realistic and your teaching records aligned with it is what keeps that monitoring from being a concern. A plan you wrote honestly and can deliver is the one that produces progress that matches expectations. A plan written to look ambitious on paper but not followed in teaching produces a gap between what was promised and what is delivered, and that gap is where the monitoring becomes a harder conversation. For the full overview of how the education plan fits into the broader registration and support structure, see the complete Yukon homeschooling guide.

Val's Note: What This Really Means for You

The three-year plan was the part that intimidated me most about Yukon, and it turned out to be the part I was most grateful for. Thinking past the next September forced me to see the shape of my kids' learning instead of lurching from one unit to the next. It changed how I chose curriculum: instead of asking what looks good for this fall, I started asking what builds the skills we need over the next three years. That is a better question.

I leaned hard on Aurora Virtual School to get the format right, and they were genuinely helpful rather than gatekeeping. They showed me a working format, helped me map our chosen curriculum against the basic skills list, and confirmed the plan before it went to the Minister. Keep the plan focused on the eleven skills the Act names, write it in plain language that describes what you will do rather than what you hope to achieve, and update it each September as your child grows into it. The plan that gets approved is the honest one, not the impressive one.

Frequently Asked Questions

What Is the Yukon Homeschool Education Plan?

Your description of how you will teach your child at home, submitted to the Minister through Aurora Virtual School before your program starts. You prepare one plan per child, and it must be approved before teaching begins.

How Many Years Must It Cover?

A minimum of three school years, the full intended span of your home education program. You update the plan each year when you re-register, but the initial plan has to show the whole arc.

What Skills Must It Build?

The eleven basic skills in the Education Act: literacy, listening, speaking, reading, writing, numeracy, mathematics, analysis, problem solving, information processing, and computing.

What Do I Include for Each Year?

The learning activities, curriculum, and resources you will use, described for each of the three years and tied to the basic skills the Act requires. AVS can show you a working format.

Do I Write It Alone?

No. Aurora Virtual School helps you create the plan, choose resources, and meet the approval requirements. Contact AVS early so there is time to write and review the plan before the September 30 registration deadline.

Does the Plan Need Approval?

Yes. The plan must be approved by the Minister before your program starts. You submit it through AVS, which manages the process. You also resubmit an updated plan each year when you re-register.

Sources

This guide was verified in June 2026 against the following primary sources. Confirm current plan requirements and format with Aurora Virtual School.

• Register your child in homeschooling and distance or distributed learning, Government of Yukon
• Aurora Virtual School (AVS) registration
• Yukon Education Act and Home Education Regulations (section 31; basic skills in 4(a)(i)), via Government of Yukon