tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21345156369893287482024-02-07T19:32:43.088-08:00Educating EmmeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2134515636989328748.post-1533690204841121552015-12-15T08:07:00.000-08:002015-12-15T08:07:00.185-08:00Filofax as a teacher plannerEvery year since the beginning of my teaching career I have had a
teacher planner. I think I started with an A4 one in a folder, then
downsized to an A5 spiral bound one. I love my A5 spiral bound, but I do
find I end up with a lot of loose papers tucked in it, and then they
fall out and I shove them back in the wrong place. It can get a bit
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I decided I waned to stay A5 size but actually
be able to reorganise the planner and have those loose bits of paper
secured. Introducing my new A5 pink apex filofax.</div>
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I bought it from the filofax website for £28 along with a portable A5 hole punch which was about £10.</div>
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Be warned, the portable hole punch was the biggest waste of £10. The following shows what it did to a single page...</div>
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Anyway,
in the meantime at school we were asked what teacher planners we wanted
for next year, so I asked for the A5 loose pages. Unfortunately these
come ready punched with two holes, which are not in a great place for
the filofax's 6 holes. (The two holes overlap with the 6 which looks a
bit messy).</div>
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Speaking of hole punches, I have
ordered a universal hole punch from Amazon which is being shipped from
Japan. Hopefully it will arrive around the end of June.</div>
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Anyway
back to the filofax. Mine came with a 2013 and 2014 calendar. I binned
the '13 one and sold the '14 one on eBay, whilst ordering myself a
2014-15 academic year one. It also came with some coloured notes pages, 6
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I got the idea from my sister
who is a filofax guru to make my own dividers. So I went to Hobbycraft
and bought a pack of pretty pastel cardstock and got to work at making
my own dividers. Half an hour later I ended up with these...</div>
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I
am pretty happy with them, I just need to make some labels to go on the
tabs. I will then cover the tabs in sticky back plastic to replicate
the dividers the filofax actually comes with. I also had hole
reinforcers, so have put them on the reverse of the dividers.</div>
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The six sections I plan to have at the moment are:</div>
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- calendar</div>
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- lesson plans</div>
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- classes</div>
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- monitoring (for my HOD role)</div>
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- meetings</div>
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- notes</div>
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Within classes, I may make a further 12 dividers (smaller tabs) so I have one for each class.</div>
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Finally
I found a picture on Pinterest where someone had their name cut out on
silver card and had a black sheet behind it to give a silhouette effect.
I chatted to my sister about this and she offered to make me one. I
think in the filofax world it's called a dashboard. I love it!</div>
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Once I really get into this, probably in September when I actually have something to put in it, I will write an updated post.</div>
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In
the meantime, do you use your filofax as your teacher planner? Do you
have any tips for me? Would love to read them in the comments below.</div>
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