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Calendar
Academic year overview, monthly views and key dates.
Stay Organised, Reduce Stress, and Enhance Productivity
Introducing the floral edition of the Teacher A4 Hardback Academic Year Planner—your essential tool for staying organised and reducing stress throughout the school year.
Designed by experienced school leaders, this planner is created with simplicity, wellbeing, and efficiency in mind, helping you to streamline lesson planning, track student progress, and manage essential tasks with ease.
This specially crafted section provides everything you need to stay ahead in your role:
✔ Team & Schedule Information – Keep track of key staff roles and timetables.
✔ Policy & Key Document Tracker – Stay on top of essential documents and compliance.
✔ Duty Timetable & Blank Timetables – Organise your responsibilities with ease.
✔ Topic & Lesson Planning – A dedicated space to brainstorm and structure your ideas.
✔ Seating Plans & Group Organisation – Visualise student placements and classroom dynamics.
✔ Parents/Carers Consultation Notes – Record key discussion points and follow-up actions.
✔ Teaching & Learning Tracker – Monitor student progress and curriculum coverage.
✔ SEND & Intervention Impact Tracking – Track individual needs, specialist support, and progress.
✔ Performance Management & CPD Log – Document achievements, training, and professional development.
✔ Assembly & Newsletter Planning – Keep track of topics, key messages, and important updates.
✔ Notes for Governors & Curriculum Monitoring – Stay prepared for meetings and evidence your impact.
✔ Pupil Information & Key Assessment Points – Keep track of student progress, assessment notes, and interventions.
This planner isn’t just practical—it’s a beautifully designed keepsake. The stunning floral artwork, featuring wildflowers, blackberries, butterflies, and woodland creatures, is inspired by the tranquility of English country gardens.
Illustrated by Charlotte Chapman, a talented Norfolk-based graphic designer, this planner is both functional and inspiring, making it a pleasure to use every day.
✔ Durable A4 Hardback Cover – Sturdy and professional for everyday use.
✔ Coil Binding with Ribbon Page Marker – Designed for easy flipping and quick reference.
✔ FSC Approved Paper – High-quality, sustainably sourced paper for a smooth writing experience.
✔ Designed & Printed in the UK – Crafted by school leaders for teachers.
📌 Perfect for teachers, NQTs, and education professionals
📌 Limited Edition – Secure Your Copy Now!
Pre-order planners are expected to ship in May/June.
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Returns are accepted for unused physical products in their original condition. Digital downloads and personalised or made-to-order items cannot usually be returned unless faulty.
If something arrives damaged, incorrect or not as expected, contact us and we’ll help put it right.
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.