My new planner has arrived!

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And I am ridiculously excited

Ordered from pirongs - it is my name on and everything

Such a saddo but I love my planners and like a new one to use in September!

I want a personalised one like Pirongs BUT with the bloody dates already in it! Any ideas?

My pirongs one this year has the dates in.

Is it a personalised one Carrie? they seem to either do dates ones or personalised. Like dreary i want both ( needy)

Mine is personalised - the very personalised version, I chose which pages and covers. All dated. It was expensive though but worth it - makes planning a bit less tedious!

Awesome- do you do a full year of dates or do you have to exclude your holidays!
Mega excited!!

Full year - more satisfying to write holidays in!

So glad I am not the only one who gets excited by planners

There's just something about September, a new planner and stationary!

Come on let's be honest - I've never met a teacher who didn't get a nice little buzz out of a nice clean shiny new diary or planner and a little jaunt down the stationery aisle to treat yourself to some lovely new pens that will either go AWOL or be overruled by some new marking regulation that you have to mark in neon purple stripes this year-

And that moment when all the classroom pen pots have fresh new, not gnawed to oblivion pencils in at the start of September before the kids come in and the place looks like a bomb's hit it again by 9.05am.

We've been bought ipads and told we are not allowed planners spoilsports. People with paper diaries get glared at.

Low I don't know how you cope I'd have to job hunt

I’ve used Idoceo on the iPad for 3 years now. Never going back to a paper planner.

My colleague has started planning on an iPad and I'm very envious. Definitely can't afford an iPad though and school issues us with a laptop (without any decent planning apps on it ).

Are paper planners going to be ok for GDPR?

Ooh I want one!

I'm returning to school teaching in September after a few years out. I've always been given a paper planner by schools I was teaching in before (not as nice as those though) - does that not happen any more?

God I hope I don't have to do it on an iPad.

You are all so wrong.

I would prefer to plan on an ipad, but we we don't even have laptops - classrooms have desktops and IT support are adamant we won't change.

Latest rumour is that we may not be given planners next year because of GDPR compliance.

One of the best things about my current job is that no one cares how I plan. SLT haven’t forced me to have an iPad, I don’t have to use a ‘lesson map’, I don’t have to have a corporate planner or diary or forecast book. I don’t have to submit my plans six months in advance. I can plan in a way that suits me and my students. It’s almost like proper teaching!

I got the pirongs fridge one.

My colleague and I do this thing where we choose and design each other’s! It’s great fun I got her the fridge one with fridge magnets all saying “I love Vlad”

I normally buy an academic diary from Home Bargains, the unicorn one but I am with you all with buying new pens for the new year. Which all seem to mysteriously disappear and end up at my house! I put them in my pocket and empty it out when I get home and they never make it back. There are always cries of 'whose got a pen?' and I'm like 'I've no idea' .

I'm also getting confused with GDPR because I thought as long as the child wasn't identifiable you can still put initials down. If someone sees the initials they aren't necessarily going to know who it is and there won't be any other ID with it i.e address or DOB. I think we are overthinking the whole thing. It's what we have been doing for years with a few more safeguards on the managerial side. Like, where you store it, why you need it and what you do with it when the children have left i.e how long you keep it for and how do you destroy it. That's my take on it and now I'm off to rewrite our data protection policy (am pre-school so have to do it all myself).

Our first briefing on GDPR sounded like something out of a John Le Carre novel. We cannot have class lists, even with initials. In fact, it was suggested that numbers would also be forbidden because the list would still be in alphabetical order, and so kids could be identified.

I imagine that by this time next year, everyone will have calmed down. We have also been told that we cannot keep any data on cloud storage such as Google Drive, Dropbox etc.

A couple of years ago, we were told that we MUST have data-annotated seating plans in a folder on our desks and MUST have SEN and attainment data in our planners. Now, that's out of the window, and planners cannot be taken home.

So far, no hints on what we will use if planners aren't supplied - last year we had bespoke pinstripe ones with dates in - moment of madness by Head. Great, except she only put ten mark sheet pages in.

@noblegirrafe I always had such respect for your education related opinions. That's all gone put the window now. iPad planner? What are you thinking?!

Are you all buying your own planners or do your schools pay for them?

Noble, low i planned for 2 years on idoceo and have never been more disorganised.
Went back to buying my own paper planner 3 years ago and feel much more on the game and just use idocy for mark book.
My FL does make disparaging comments but luckily there are a few like me in the department and we just shrug them off.

I use Planboard because it is free and my team of TAs and I can all access it from any device. I also put it up on the IWB as a visual timetable for the children and they write in it and self-record various things too.

Bobbie I’m so right about this

No idea how Rosie managed to be less organised, Idoceo has my life on it!

Ways Idoceo is better than paper:
It syncs with the school outlook calendar so I don’t need to copy in report dates, assemblies, meetings as it’s automatically at the top of my day
The seating plan bit is easy to use and links to the markbook. You can automatically overlay anything from your markbook onto the seating plan - want to know who did badly in the recent test? Add it to the seating plan and you can easily group them together. PP students? SEN? All visible on your seating plan.
PP, SEN flags, KS2 data? Easily exported from SIMs.
The markbook is great, and you can generate a by student report of their results to hand to parents at parents evening
For planning I mostly use the weekly view (can’t do that with paper!) but if I want to see what I’ve done with a particular class, I just select the class and can flick through all the lessons I’ve done with just them.
And I don’t have to spend ages handwriting each class onto each day. Once I set the timetable up, it’s done.

Noble OK that does actually sound shit-hot. But, but... pretty pens...

But, but... pretty pens...

Exactly.

@noblegiraffe unfortunately my school have moved away from SIMS. No idea why. Someone got paid off big time somehwere. We all despise the new system. It does sound good but takes away all the procrastination I can pretend is useful work!