School Business Manager Planner 2026/27 - Cottage Design
£36.95
inc. VATThe HeadteacherChat® School Business Manager Planner 2026/27, Cottage design, is a planner for school business managers with weekly time-blocked diary spreads (8am–6pm) and five…
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Product details
The HeadteacherChat® School Business Manager Planner 2026/27, Cottage design, is a planner for school business managers with weekly time-blocked diary spreads (8am–6pm) and five tabbed sections.
If you're a School Business Manager, you're holding the engine room of the school — budgets, contracts, compliance, premises, staffing, H&S, policies, governors… and the rest!
The HeadteacherChat® School Business Manager Planner is designed to get it out of your head and onto the page — so you're not juggling deadlines, audits, meetings, and urgent issues on sheer memory alone. It follows the school calendar and gives you a practical structure to stay steady, even when the week gets messy.
Designed by me, an experienced school leader, for all of you fabulous school office staff who work so hard in schools for us all! I hope you enjoy using it! Lucy
Why this isn't a generic diary
Because a generic diary doesn't understand:
- the rhythm of budget cycles, procurement, and reporting
- the compliance pressure that sits alongside day-to-day operations
- how quickly your priorities can be derailed by the next "urgent" issue
This planner helps keep actions visible and deadlines trackable.
What's inside
- 5 tabbed sections: Calendar, Diary, Meeting Notes, Important Information, Notes & Contacts
- Goal-setting pages to plan priorities and track progress through the year
- Aug–July monthly calendars with notes space (built for the academic year)
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Weekly diary spreads with time-blocking (8am–6pm), plus simple prompts to keep you on track:
- Key priorities
- People to contact
- Meeting reminders
- Reasons to celebrate
- Meeting Notes
- Finance section
- Single Central Record
- Staffing
- Health and Safety
- Policies
- Statutory Policy Checklist
- Items to purchase
- CPD log
- Performance Management Log
- Governors Notes
- Budget Notes
- Notes and Contacts
Planner features
Time-blocking (8am–6pm) — Allocate real time to real tasks, so urgent requests don't wipe out your week.
Weekly prompts — Keep priorities and follow-ups visible (not buried in emails).
Goal-setting pages — Turn "we need to…" into a clear plan you can actually deliver.
Tabbed sections — Find what you need fast when you're moving between finance, premises, staffing and compliance.
Choose your School Business Manager Planner for the 2026/27 academic year.
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