Your School Years Journal & Keepsake

YOUR SCHOOL YEARS ORGANISER – A TIMELESS KEEPSAKE

The Your School Years is a luxury organiser in a binder/folder style designed to capture and store your child’s school achievements and memories. Handcrafted with premium materials, it offers flexibility, durability, and elegance—perfect for preserving precious moments. This binder is as practical as it is sentimental, offering both everyday functionality and a record of your child’s school journey.

MUCH MORE FLEXIBLE THAN SCHOOL JOURNALS

Unlike traditional school yearbooks or journals, this keepsake organiser provides full autonomy over how you choose to celebrate and document each year. You can easily add or remove sections, rearrange the dividers, and even punch holes in your own documents for inclusion. It’s designed to grow with your child and accommodate the changing interests and achievements they’ll accumulate along the way.

After making journals for 9 years, it would have been much more simple for us to create a School Journal… but we felt strongly that this design was more user-friendly and flexible for our customers and our children!

PERFECT FOR ANY SCHOOL JOURNEY

Whether you’re just starting or picking up mid-way through their school years, the binder’s versatile design makes it easy to adapt. It caters to both New Zealand and Australian school systems, with labels for either school years or grades. Need more space? No problem—you can easily purchase additional dividers, pockets, or sheet protectors to continue expanding the collection.

KEY FEATURES:

• Customisable Organisation42 gold-foil labels for school years (preschool/kindergarten – high school) plus categories like art, sports, music, drama, certificates, and more. See photo gallery for all label options.Whether you begin in preschool/prep or jump in mid-way through their school journey, no space is wasted. Additional dividers can be purchased for further customisation, ensuring that every milestone and extracurricular activity has its own special place.
• Practical & Spacious DesignEncased in a durable hardcover linen binder, the Your School Years Organiser features 14 sturdy dividers, perfect for organising by school year or area of interest.Additionally, we have included five thick clear sheet protectors for displaying cherished items like artwork and certificates, and two card pockets filesfor keeping reports and mementos safe.The spacious, simplistic design allows you to preserve your child’s most treasured school memories without the clutter of overflowing boxes.
• Memory Cards for Reflection150gsm double-sided memory cards with journal prompts for each school year.Thoughtful prompts for goal-setting, reflection, and “letters to you.”Dedicated photo page for each year.
• Flexible & ExpandableAdd or remove sections as you need, allowing complete control over how you organise your child’s school journey.Choose from 42 gold-foil labels—including school years, extracurriculars, and achievements—so you can personalise the binder to reflect your child’s unique experiences and interests.Create a truly customised keepsake by mixing and matching labels—organise by school year, activities like art and sports, or dedicate sections to awards and certificates.Whether you’re starting at preschool or mid-way through school, the flexibility of the binder ensures no space is wasted.Easily punch holes in your own documents for inclusion, using the 4-ring design to add extra pages, dividers, or memory cards.Tailored for both New Zealand and Australian school systems, offering labels for either school years or grades.Additional dividers, pockets, and sheet protectors are available, enabling countless ways to design and expand the binder to fit your needs.

FAQ:

What size school photos does it take?

1. Add one school photo onto the memory card, with a useable space of 29.5 x 20.5 cm.
2. Include A4 photos in the clear sheet protectors (fits multiple A4 sheets)
3. Store additional photos in the storage pockets (fits multiple A4 sheets)
4. Add additional pages, simply use a hole punch to add extras to the binder, or purchase additional pockets, dividers or clear sheet protectors.

• Cover size: 27.5 x 30 cm
• Spine: 5.5 cm
• Binding: 4-ring linen hardcover binder
• Dividers: 14 sturdy cardboard dividers, 29.5 x 23.5 cm (including tab)
• Labels: 42 gold-foil labels (school years, grades & categories)
• Memory cards: 150gsm double-sided, 4 pages per year (2 double-sided cards) for 13 years
• Clear sheet protectors: 5 x A4 included
• Storage pockets: 2 x A4 card pocket files included
• Photo card useable space: 29.5 x 20.5 cm
• Cover material: Premium linen

Create bespoke, one-of-a-kind gifts to love by adding our Personalised Monogramming service to your journal.

We personalise by hand every second day in Auckland and Melbourne, shipping within 4 days. See our full Monogramming T&C for full details.

As standard, we place monogramming at the bottom right of the cover.