It can be tough going staying on top of everything as a teacher. Being organised with the teaching and learning in your classroom is a big job in itself, but there's always something else going on in the school to add to your plate. I find it useful to map out, as best as you can, the guaranteed things to come up in each month so that you can at least plan ahead for them and hopefully make it easier for all the other things that'll inevitably come up!
It's a good idea to make this list as you go through the year so that it'll help you the following year!
Here is a rough list of the monthly tasks/events that come up for me in my classroom and school 👇
If you scroll all the way to the bottom you can even download the Google Sheets template I use to track my monthly tasks!
August
'Croke Park' day
Classroom setup
Start of school pics
Welcome email/letter to parents in your class
September
Longterm plans for each subject
Read through any support plans that children in your class were on last year. Have a look through the support file for your class.
Baseline term 1 assessments
Fortnightly plans
Class newsletter
Cúntas
October
Parent-Teacher meetings
Maths week
Monthly assessments
Fortnightly plans
Class newsletter
Cúntas
Halloween costume parade
Pre-Midterm classroom clean
November
Choose Christmas/Winter play and start practising
Review and write updated support plans
Monthly assessments
Fortnightly plans
Class newsletter
Cúntas
December
Class Christmas/winter play
Monthly assessments
Fortnightly plans
Class newsletter
Cúntas
Pre-Christmas classroom clean
January
Monthly assessments
Baseline term 2 assessments
Fortnightly plans
Class newsletter
Cúntas
February
Review and write updated support plans
Monthly assessments
Fortnightly plans
Class newsletter
Confirmation
Cúntas
Pre-Midterm classroom clean
March
Book week
Seachtaine na Gaeilge
Monthly assessments
Fortnightly plans
Class newsletter
Cúntas
April
Pre-Easter classroom clean
Monthly assessments
Fortnightly plans
Class newsletter
Cúntas
May
Write school reports
Monthly assessments
Baseline term 3 assessments
First Communion
Class allocation for next year
Cumann na mBunscoil Athletics
Standardised assessment
Fortnightly plans
Class newsletter
Cúntas
June
Post out school reports
Sports day
Class pictures
Class handover
Finished school reports
Support plan reviews
Clear out classroom
Monthly assessments
Fortnightly plans
Class newsletter
Cúntas
Thank you email/letter to parents in your class
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