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2025 Central Outdoor Weekly Programming and Reflection Diary - Hard Cover Spiral Bound

Name: 2025 Central Outdoor Weekly Programming and Reflection Diary - Hard Cover Spiral Bound
Brand: Butler Creative Childcare Resources
SKU: WPRD-OUTD-25
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Intentional teaching that doesn't stop at the door

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Programming Diary for Outdoor Educators

The Central Outdoor Programming Diary for 2025 is designed to ensure intentional teaching does not stop when going outdoors. It is a space for all rooms to collaborate on planning a deliberate and purposeful outdoor program that values each child.

Save time checking each room's individual program by collaborating together on your shared outdoor spaces. All while simplifying your workload with this all-inclusive diary that enables quick access to weekly and future programming utilising both notes and visuals.

Strong Enough to Last the Year

NEW Binding and Covers:
- super sturdy hard cover,
- re-enforced gold corners,
- robust gold spiral binding allowing easy opening and laying flat,
- calming colour interior,
- handy ribbon bookmark,
- multi-use internal pocket,
- AND Diary and Framework stickers!

All Your Programming Solutions in One Book

Completed program in as little as 10 minutes per day
Simplifies the cycle of planning
Makes the planning cycle visible to the team, families, and assessors
Prompts and inspires a creative, holistic program
Supports practice based on critical reflection
Has EYLF V2 at the foundation of the program
Facilitates intentional teaching
Encourages family engagement with the program
Includes key themes of the NQS
Perfect A&R tool by keeping evidence in one place
Many customers achieved exceeding while using
Simple boxed program without the constraints
Adaptable for each team and service
Includes consideration of transitions
Suitable for children aged 6 weeks to 6 years
Perfect for all Educators from trainees through to veterans
Improves communication in the room and across the service
Creates consistency across the service
Flexible for both individual and group goals within the program

This Outdoor Program Diary:

Captures the planning of each room collaboratively in one program,
Allows the indoor and outdoor programs to connect and extend children's learning,
Supports Educators in charge of setting up outdoor spaces with a clear picture of what is planned for each room,
Enables intentional and inclusive environments for all children outdoors,
Provides Families with easily accessible information about the outdoor program and how their children's learning is being planned for,
Fosters children's autonomy, decision-making, and connection with Nature through purposeful boxes on Risky Play, Messy/Water Play, and Nature/Exploration.

Build collaborative partnerships as children's learning can be recorded by all staff in the outdoor environment. The Evaluation & Extension Ideas reflection space allows all staff to capture children's learning and reflect on the success and challenges of the program. Children are also encouraged to collaborate with 'Spontaneous/Children's Choice' which enables children's autonomy as they craft their own learning through their interests.

Use this diary in conjunction with the Weekly Programming and Reflection Diaries

Is this for me?

Who is this diary for?

Educational Leaders & Room Leaders
Long Day Care Educators
Preschool Educators
Family Day Care Educators
Kindergarten Educators
OSHC Educators

How to use this diary:

One Central Outdoor Programming Diary is used for each outdoor space
Educators in all rooms who use the outdoor space collaborate on planned experiences and learning for children that extend on their previous indoor and outdoor experiences
The program includes;

Fine Motor/Cognitive experiences,
Gross Motor/ Physical experiences,
Risky Play,
Messy/Water Play,
Nature Play/Exploration,
Structured Games,
Spontaneous/Children's Choice, and lastly
A Blank Box to use in a way that best enables your centre's program. For example, this could be Family/Community Input, Changes to the Environment, or Observations Captured.

How the Diary helps with compliance

The CENTRAL OUTDOOR Weekly Programming and Reflection Diary:

Supports you in making decisions around the EYLF, QKLG, and MTOP Frameworks,
Considers Erikson, Piaget, Gardner, and Montessori in its design,
Planning boxes prompt physical, social, emotional, cognitive, and language experiences, which are also linked to milestones and Framework outcomes.
Links with the three exceeding themes; Embedded in Service Operations, Informed by Critical Reflection, and Shaped by Meaningful Engagement with Families and Community.
Applies the National Quality Standards, The Central Outdoor Weekly Programming and Reflection Diary Covers:

1.1.1 Approved Learning Framework
1.1.2 Child-centred
1.1.3 Program learning opportunities
1.2.1 Intentional teaching
1.2.2 Responsive teaching and scaffolding
1.2.3 Child directed learning
1.3.1 Assessment and planning cycle
1.3.3 Information for families
2.1.2 Health practices and procedures
2.1.3 Healthy lifestyle
2.2.2 Incident and emergency management
2.1.1 Wellbeing and comfort
3.1.1 Fit for purpose
3.1.2 Upkeep
3.2.1 Inclusive environment
3.2.3 Environmentally responsible
4.2.1 Staffing arrangements
4.2.2 Professional standards
5.2.1 Collaborative learning
6.1.2 Parent views are respected
7.2.1 Continuous improvement

See our Compliance Information Factsheet designed to support you in identifying, reflecting on, and documenting how your service operations and practices are linked to frameworks, NQS, theorists, developmental milestones, and exceeding themes.

Outdoor Weekly Programming and Reflection Diary Compliance Book

Download the Compliance eBook with Sample Pages

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The Outdoor Programming Diary ensures intentional teaching does not stop at the door. We often received feedback that the outdoor space was being used to just let children out to run and while this is incredibly important, burning energy should not be confused with a lack of intentional teaching. The person opening and setting up in the morning will often not have time to go inside and check each individual room’s program to see what activities would benefit the children outdoors and so sets up the yard in a random fashion. The Outdoor Programming Diary ensures the outdoor space is as intentional and inclusive as the indoor environments.

The Outdoor Programming Diary is designed for those running under the Early Years Learning Framework who have shared outdoor spaces across rooms or age groups.

No, the Central Weekly Programming and Reflection Diary is designed to be used per outdoor space rather than per room. Each room would contribute to the planning in the Outdoor Programming Diary and whoever is setting up the yard in the morning would refer to the program. This creates an outdoor space that promotes intentional teaching and makes this obvious for Assessment and Rating.

"Each diary that we use is laid out in such a way that ALL compliance and record keeping is there - it simply needs to be filled out - each individual diary ticks all the compliance boxes - all the educators have to do is fill them out - it is really simple and easy to understand - This ensures everything is easy to find and on show for spot checks etc. Also no need to go back and fill in missing gaps as everything is there."

Common feedback that we hear is that our Diaries keep everything is one place. With the pressure of Assessment and Rating and so much paperwork, it can make staying organised difficult. We reduce compliance confusion and support you in keeping everything together - particularly handy now with reduced time notices before A&R now in effect.

Check out this full page of resources to further support you when using this diary.

ALL NEW DESIGNS

2025 Hard Cover Diaries

ALL NEW DESIGNS

2025 Hard Cover Diaries

This year all of our diaries contain more of your favourite features, with extra storage and industry based stickers. The luxury gold binding, reinforced corners and ribbon bookmark provide the highest quality and durability.

Really great learning tool for educators new to the industry simplifies and explains importance of outdoor programming and supporting outcomes.

Everything in one spot

We find the outdoor diary very handy. Everything is in one spot checklist and planning. Allows for all staff to collaborate and participate in planning.

Thank you Bronwyn, we love hearing how it helps everyone collaborate together for the best outcomes for children!

An amazing educator diary.
Out door diary is great
Room
Diary is great
Plus the observation duplicate book is so good I brought 3 in the end.
Love the highlighter heaps too.

Thanks so much for sharing Danielle, we couldn't be happier to hear you are happy with your order!

Very helpful!

We are finding that the Outdoor Programming Book increases educator intentionality in programming for a variety of outdoor experiences and in observing children's choices in the outdoor environment and then intentionally following up on these for a more holistic practice.

Thank you Leonie! We are so glad our Central Outdoor Weekly Programming and Reflection Diary is supporting you in developing a holistic program for children. Great to see the pictures of your Diary in use too! Thank you again for a wonderful review!