HESSA aims to ensure a pathway for home-educated domestic students in Aotearoa to fully engage and compete in appropriate individual and team sports at both primary and secondary school ages. 

This initiative seeks to provide these students with opportunities to maintain their physical and mental well-being throughout their educational years, and to have equitable opportunities to develop as athletes with potential for sporting careers, and access educational sporting scholarships.

HESSA will do this by:

• Working with School Sports New Zealand and its stakeholders to ensure home educated students are able to fully engage and compete in secondary school aged sports the same as their school going peers.

• Raising awareness nationally of the inequities that currently exist for home educated domestic students in Aotearoa to access appropriate sporting opportunities.

• Raising awareness of HESSA and its aims within the home educating community