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Calendar
Academic year overview, monthly views and key dates.
Inspire Reflection and a Love of Reading with Our Autumn Term Assembly Plan
This ready-to-use 12-week assembly resource is designed to make planning simple and engaging. Each week, a carefully chosen children's picture book sparks discussions around key life themes, with thought-provoking questions and reflection prompts.
We've even sourced all the recommended books for you, complete with Amazon UK links, so you can focus on delivering meaningful assemblies.
Themes Include:
Perfect for primary schools, this editable 4-page Word template saves you over 8 hours of preparation time while helping to nurture empathy, curiosity, and a love of stories.
All 12 books are linked for easy purchase via Amazon UK.
A note from Lucy and Jonathan:
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Pre-order planners are expected to ship in May/June.
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What's inside
Weekly planning, meetings, key dates, notes and follow-ups in one calm place.
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Academic year overview, monthly views and key dates.
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Time-blocked weekly spreads with space for priorities and follow-ups.
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Structured notes pages with actions and next steps.
Designed by a former Headteacher
Made for the role as it really is
I wanted one place to hold the week, the follow-ups and the decisions that mattered.
These planners began as the notebooks Lucy made for herself as a Headteacher. They are designed around the practical rhythm of school life, not an idealised version of it.
Lucy
School weeks do not run like ordinary weeks. This planner is built around the meetings, deadlines, follow-ups and decisions that shape the academic year.
Principal Planner 2026/27 - Cottage Design
Pay by purchase order, bulk discounts, custom invoicing, and split delivery to multiple sites. Used by 340+ schools and 38 MATs across the UK.
Schools and 38 MATs use HeadteacherChat planners as their default SLT planner. Trust pricing starts at £29 per planner for 10+ orders.
"We bought the SENDCO planner for every school in the trust. The MAT-level admin made it painless — one PO, eight delivery addresses."
The 26/27 planner
An A4 hardback academic-year planner designed around the real rhythm of school life, with weekly planning, meeting notes, key dates and leadership prompts in one place.
Planner questions
Quick answers for school leaders comparing academic-year planners, headteacher planners and principal planners for 2026/27.
This is a pre-order for the new academic year. Principal Planner 2026/27 orders are expected to ship in May/June, ready for August planning.
Yes. The HeadteacherChat Principal Planner is designed for headteachers, principals and senior school leaders who need one place for weekly planning, school improvement, safeguarding, meetings, wellbeing and follow-up actions.
The planner is built around the 2026/27 academic year, with an August-July structure, monthly views, year-at-a-glance planning and weekly diary spreads.
It includes weekly time-blocking, meeting notes, goal-setting pages, school improvement planning, SEF tracking, safeguarding and wellbeing prompts, policy checklists, staffing logs, CPD notes, budget notes, governor notes and contact pages.
Yes. The planner includes structured space for school improvement, SEF, safeguarding, statutory policies, teaching and learning, SEND provision, wellbeing and termly leadership tasks, so key responsibilities stay visible throughout the year.
This is not a generic diary. It was created by a former Headteacher and follows the rhythm of school leadership: decisions, meetings, safeguarding, staff wellbeing, compliance, parent contact, governors and strategic planning.