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Calendar
Academic year overview, monthly views and key dates.
A comprehensive checklist designed to guide you through the process of meeting the DFE's Digital and Technology Standards,(October 2024), and in particular the filtering and monitoring standards.
What are the Filtering and Monitoring Standards in Schools and Colleges?
The standards focus on various aspects such as cyber security, filtering and monitoring, cloud solutions, and digital accessibility.
These standards are important for ensuring that schools and colleges provide a safe and efficient learning environment.
The standards explain the requirements for managing user accounts, password policies, multi-factor authentication, anti-malware software, and the licensing and patching of software and devices. It emphasises the need to regularly review and update your technology and digital practices to safeguard against cyber threats and enhance educational outcomes.
Why is this checklist helpful?
We've created a document that takes all the important information that you need into an easy to access format, with key questions such as 'What is our current position? What are we aiming for? and Have we achieved this?
By using this document, you are not only checking that you are meeting the digital and technology standards for filtering and monitoring online content, but you are also recording your progress for doing so.
Why do we need to complete it?
Because it helps to ensure the safeguarding of pupils and staff from harmful and inappropriate material online.
What does the checklist contain?
All of the information in the standards that you need to be aware of, and a useful evaluation section to record your journey towards meeting them.
Specifications:
Aligned with the Department for Education's standards.
This is an editable word document template for you to download and use.
Number of Pages: 13
Approximate Time Saved: Approximately 26 hours.
Updated 24th October 2024
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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.