Outback Summer Program
Licensed by the Department of Early Education and Care (EEC).
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Online enrollment for the 2025 Outback Program is now open!
Outback is a high-quality summer experience for families who value creativity, culture, and community. We specialize in building community through creative explorations and strive to strike the perfect balance of structure and freedom for a safe yet fun summer. Outback is for rising Kindergarteners (must be 5 years old by start of the program) through rising 6th graders. Families register by session (regular day from 8:30am-3:00pm) and may add an extended day option (3-5:45pm) for an additional fee.
Regular Day (8:30 AM-3 PM) – $490 per week ($475 if paying by check/ACH)
Extended Day (8:30 AM-5:45 PM) – $675 per week ($655 if paying by check/ACH)
To help us offset burdensome credit card processing fees, we offer a discount to families who opt to pay by automatic withdrawal (ACH) or check. More on our tuition policies can be found here.
Outback is committed to being accessible to families from all income levels. We offer full and partial scholarships based on income and family size, and accept childcare vouchers. Learn more about financial aid.
Our Staff is led by a strong leadership team with expertise in child development, health and safety, curriculum development, family communication, and supporting positive social-emotional growth in children. The teaching team is a dynamic and diverse group of artists, dancers, athletes, musicians, and childcare specialists with skills in everything from printmaking to soccer, committed to building relationships with children, leading a range of engaging activities, and providing an overall fun, welcoming, supportive environment that allows children to explore their interests, make friends, learn new things, and have a great summer experience. All staff are CPR/First Aid certified and participate in a rigorous orientation. The teaching staff is supported by high school Mayor’s Youth students, and middle school Counselors in Training.
Curriculum/Activities Outback curriculum is tailored to the interests of the children in the program and provides plenty of opportunities for children to choose their own activities, flex their creativity, and spend time with peers. We offer several activity periods each day called “choices” and children get to choose their activities. Typical choice offerings include a mix of structured activities such as sports and games, ceramics, visual arts, performance arts, and the more care-free summer activities like playing in the sandbox, running through the sprinkler, reading, crafts, and more!
2025 Session Dates
- Week 1 June 30th-July 3rd (closed on July 4th)
- Week 2 July 7th-11th
- Week 3 July 14th-18th (Beach trip week)
- Week 4 July 21st-25th
- Week 5 July 28th-August 1st (Beach trip week)
- Week 6 August 4th-8th
- Week 7 August 11th-15th (Beach trip week)
- Week 8 August 18th-22nd*
*Our program will unfortunately not have access to the Baldwin school during the week of August 18th, and we will be enrolling at a reduced capacity for this week only.
Field Trips and Special Events On Thursdays during weeks 3, 5 and 7, all 2nd-6th grade Outbackers will visit Singing Beach in Manchester-by-the-Sea. There will not be any beach trips weeks 1, 2, 4, 6 and 8. Kindergarten will not go on these trips and will have a fun day on site with special activities and full access to our yard. There will also be a mix of other field trips and on site special events throughout the summer.
Outback beach trips are highly organized to ensure safety and fun for everyone, and were a favorite part of Outback for many over the years! These trips are staffed by our teachers, CITs, Mayor’s Youth and Site Directors, and in the past we’ve also had parents volunteer as chaperones. We have also either hired someone with or sponsored one of our teachers to obtain lifeguard certification. Outbackers are closely supervised in the water and on the sand. We create clear barriers of cones and rope and even human barriers in the water, to make sure all students stay within eyesight of an adult. Learn more about Outback beach trips here.
Questions? Contact us:
Allegra Fletcher
Director of Children’s Programs
617-465-2928
afletcher@agassiz.org
Milo Proscia
Registration Coordinator
617-465-2940
registration@agassiz.org
