The Planner

At the beginning of it all was the desire for a planner that can just be used, without the need for filling in all the necessary dates and classes and classrooms.

The heart of the bespoke teacher planner is the diary pages. One page for each school day, laid out with the structure of your school, with your lessons already filled in. If your school lunchtime is a moveable feast - mine is period 4a or 4b depending on my classes, the pages will accomodate that.

You can choose between a day to a page, or a week to a double spread. Click on images to enlarge them.

The second most important part of the planner is marksheets. The marksheets have alternately shaded rows which makes them easier to use. There's a vertical space to record what you are marking, and a space for a date or week number. There are as many marksheets as you have classes (with two to spare), each with as many as many rows as you need. Bespoke.

Also important are note pages to write things down. We're big fans of Bullet Journals, which is why the pages have dots. Follow the link to find out what that's about if you don't know.

There are some note pages at the front, and plenty at the back. If you select week-to-a-view you get more of them to compensate for less space to scribble in the diary pages. All the pages in the planner are numbered. This is very important. If you write a great idea for a lesson or scheme of work, you want to know where to find it. We use the first two note pages for a contents page.

Finally, or firstly in terms of where it is in the planner, on page 1 is the teacher's timetable. The planner is in black and white, but you can colour the timetable in.