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Cooking & sensory play →
Bread, smoothies, frozen yoghurt, playdough and more. Simple recipes for educators to review and use with children.
The kitchen library
A good place to start the next good idea.
Cooking activities for children, menus for special days and practical food-safety learning for the people behind every meal.
Good food is something to share
For the cook, the educator and the curious child.
A kitchen library for the days you need an idea, a clear set of steps or a little more confidence. Explore small-group activities, menus for special occasions and practical reading for staff.
Every activity includes ingredients, a visual example and checks for allergies and supervision. Sensory play is clearly marked separately from food to eat.
A reason to gather
Menus for special days →
Book Week, rainbow menus, Christmas, Easter and family-led cultural occasions, with room for your own community.
Someone to point you in the right direction
Practical staff learning →
Allergy checks, cross-contamination, bottles, first foods and guidance for every Australian state and territory.
Generated activity illustrations. Centre meal photographs belong with the food actually prepared.
Site setup checklist
Start with information your service has already reviewed.
You can save and return during setup. Gather what applies to the site; do not create a document merely to fill a screen.
01
Site structure
- Organisation and centre details
- Rooms and capacities
- Meal services and times
02
Food and menu
- Current menu cycle
- Approved recipes and alternatives
- Dietary and texture count process
03
Food-safety records
- Current approved plan or program
- Forms and site limits
- Review and corrective-action roles
04
Daily procedures
- Opening and closing process
- Cleaning schedules
- Equipment-specific instructions
05
Policies and handbook
- Current approved documents
- Site variations
- Review dates and approvers
06
People and learning
- Staff roles
- FSS records
- Internal and external training evidence
Integration readiness
Questions to answer before requesting a provider connection.
A useful integration begins with permission, scope and a reliable fallback.
Provider readiness
Pre-connection check
- Which system is authoritative for attendance or meal counts?01
- Has the organisation confirmed it may provide those fields to Queux?02
- Does the provider offer supported documentation and credentials?03
- Which sites, rooms, dates and meal services must be mapped?04
- What minimum dietary summary does the kitchen genuinely need?05
- Who reviews sync failures and enters a manual replacement when needed?06
Source context
Plan mapping prompts
Digitise the site’s decision, not a generic assumption.
For every operational form, identify the approved source and the person accountable for review.
- Plan or program title and current version
- Relevant section or procedure
- Fields, units and locally approved limits
- When a corrective action is required
- Manager or FSS review step
- Retention and export expectations
Short explainers
Understand the boundary before choosing a workflow.
Three distinctions that keep setup honest and useful.
01 / INPUT
Manual, CSV or provider?
Choose based on reliable authorised access — not the appearance of automation.
02 / CONTENT
Draft, approved or published?
Keep working content separate from the version staff are expected to follow.
03 / LEARNING
Internal or recognised training?
Record both clearly without presenting internal learning as a nationally recognised qualification.
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