Principal Planner 2026/27 - Cottage Design

The HeadteacherChat® Principal Planner 2026/27, Cottage design, is a planner for principals with weekly time-blocked diary spreads (8am–6pm) and five tabbed sections. It is built by a school leader, for school leaders, and follows the school calendar.

Dispatched within a few days.

These planners were my notebooks that I created when I was in the role. They certainly helped me stay on top of tasks and to make important decisions when I was a leader. I hope you enjoy using 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: termly task planners for school improvement, SEF, safeguarding, wellbeing and financial tasks
• 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: School Improvement Plan (SIP) tracker, School Evaluation Plan (SEF) tracker, Teaching and Learning tracker
• People and performance: staffing logs, Performance Management log, CPD log, parent consultation records
• Compliance and operations: Key Policies checklist, Statutory Policies checklist, budget tracking notes, items to purchase, timetable space
• Day-to-day leadership: Impact of SEND provision tracker, assembly planner, newsletter planner, notes for governors, Useful Information section, "Don't Forget" page

Use it to 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.