Free template
Term planner template
An 11-week term grid — cross out the weeks your term doesn't use. Put the immovable dates on first (holidays, camps, reporting windows), then space everything else around them. How to keep a planner true all term is covered in the term planner guide.
Term planner
Term: __________ Year: __________
| Week / dates | Events & excursions | Assessment & reporting | Staff (PD, meetings) | Notes |
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| W1 | ||||
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| W9 | ||||
| W10 | ||||
| W11 |
Before you fill it in
- Immovables first: public holidays, curriculum days, camps, swimming, reporting windows, transition days.
- Read each optional event’s knock-on effects before placing it — cover, yard duty, specialist sessions, and the release time they deliver.
- Keep the week before reports open as clear as you can, and leave one genuinely empty week as slack.
- One copy is the truth. Date every printout, and route every change through the same owner.
When the template stops being enough
Bell Path shows every event's knock-on effects — automatically.
A paper planner can't tell you that Year 4 camp deletes three teachers' release time and half of Tuesday's duty roster. Bell Path's operations calendar sits beside the timetable, daily cover, and yard duty — so the term's events and their consequences live in one place, shareable with staff and families.
See the operations calendar