SENCO Planner 2026/27 - Cottage Design

The HeadteacherChat® SENCO Planner 2026/27, Cottage design, is a planner for SENCOs with weekly time-blocked diary spreads (8am–6pm) and five tabbed sections. Created by a SENCO, for SENCOs, it follows the school calendar and is built for SEND leadership: EHCP timelines, interventions, agency emails, staff briefings and compliance.

I was a school leader for a total of 18 years and an inclusion lead until recently. The HeadteacherChat® SENCO Planner is my notebook from when I was in that role. It's how I kept everything in one place instead of carrying it all in my head. Inclusion is my passion, and this is what helped me do the job. I hope you enjoy it!

Lucy

What's inside

• Calendar: academic year planner (Aug–July) with monthly views and year-at-a-glance
• Diary: weekly spreads with time-blocking (8am–6pm) and prompts for key priorities, wellbeing reminders, people to contact and meeting notes
• Meeting Notes: templates with space for next steps
• Important Information: staffing, key documents, duty days, timetables, topic planning, seating plans, display ideas, groups, performance management log, CPD log, assembly planner, newsletter updates, pupil information
• Notes & Contacts

Goal-setting pages to set focus areas at the start of the year, note likely barriers and track progress term by term.

Trackers, logs and checklists

• Strategic planning and impact: impact of SEND provision, impact of interventions, parent consultations, curriculum area monitoring
• People and performance: pupil notes, staffing notes, Performance Management log, CPD log
• Compliance and operations: key documents checklist, items to purchase, timetables
• "Don't Forget" page

Use it to track EHCP review dates, provision mapping and graduated response documentation; manage your SEND register and Assess-Plan-Do-Review cycles; keep external agency liaison (Ed Psych, SALT, OT and more) in one place; and plan around Ofsted's renewed inspection framework and its updated school inspection toolkit, in force from September 2026.

Built with the same "leaders helping leaders" approach as the HeadteacherChat® community.