The Primary Music Planner
Everything you need to lead music, in one place.
Plan the year
Vision, this week's timetable, year overview, and a monthly dashboard you'll actually open.
Teach & develop
Timetable planning, development plan, curriculum, monitoring templates, CPD log.
Run the subject
Budget, instruments, performances, hub and partner contacts.
Prove the impact
Evidence bank, monthly health check, and a proper year-end reflection.
Every page answers one question: what does an excellent music lead actually do throughout the year? This planner saves automatically to this browser as you type – use Export backup regularly (Data menu, left) to keep a copy, especially before switching computers or browsers.
Annual vision
Start with the big picture. Everything else in this planner should trace back to what you write here.
Three priorities for the year
Three success measures – how will I know?
Academic year overview
One page per term. The same six questions, asked three times, so nothing falls between terms.
Music timetable
This week's music timetable at a glance. Set it up in Plan & teach → Plan the timetable.
Monthly dashboard
One spread per month, September to August. Each month also carries a one-minute Health Check – score honestly and the trend does the rest.
Plan the timetable
Which class has music, when, with whom, and where. Keep one timetable for the whole year, or switch on a separate one for each term if things move around – some schools keep the same one all year, others don't. This feeds the at-a-glance view in Section 03.
Music development plan
Every row here is a priority. Give it an ID – evidence you log later can point straight back to it.
| ID | Priority | Actions | Lead | Deadline | Status |
|---|
Curriculum
A working record, not a policy document – somewhere to think out loud about what's taught and what needs work.
Monitoring
Five simple templates. Add an entry each time you do one – they build into your evidence trail automatically.
CPD log
Every course, twilight, or watched-a-video-at-10pm counts. Impact and next steps are what make it evidence rather than a list.
| Date | Training | Impact | Next steps |
|---|
Budget
Kept deliberately simple. Totals below calculate themselves.
Income
| Source | Amount (£) |
|---|
Total: £0
Expenditure
| Item | Amount (£) |
|---|
Total: £0
Balance income − expenditure
£0
Instrument inventory
One row per instrument or set. Keep condition current – it's the first thing a repairs conversation needs.
| Instrument | Condition | Student/storeroom | Serial number |
|---|
Performances
Every event gets a page – including the reflection afterwards, which is the part that usually gets skipped.
Music hub & partner contacts
Everyone you might need to reach in a hurry, on one page.
Evidence bank
One place to log evidence as it happens, instead of hunting for it in June. Tag each entry to a development-plan priority where you can – that link is what turns a scrapbook into a case for leadership.
Music health check – trends
Every monthly dashboard (Section 03) ends with a one-page health check, scoring ten dimensions from 1–5. This page pulls all twelve snapshots together so you can see, by July, exactly how far provision has moved – and hand it straight into a governor report.
Scores come straight from the health check at the bottom of each month in Section 03 – nothing to fill in here.
Year-end reflection
Same four questions every July. Answer them honestly and next year's priorities write themselves.