There are so many ways to use your teacher planner, and we love seeing all your photos on social media and in our Facebook group. One of the ways to really make your planner work for you and combine both functional and pretty planning is to use stickers! We make lots of stickers in different shapes and sizes so you can customise things and make your planner work for you. If you’re looking for ideas on how to use stickers in your teacher planner to keep your schedule more organised, here are a few ideas for four of our different planner stickers. All of these can be found in Volume 2 of our Planner Sticker book.
List stickers
Create top 3 priorities
One of the ways you could use this mini list is to focus on three top priorities, either daily or weekly. If you’ve got the daily planner you could stick one of these on a daily page if you have a particularly busy day, and look through your schedule and To Do list and pick out your top three priorities. Prioritising what’s most important is a great way to manage your time when you’re feeling overwhelmed!
Important things to remember
Great for busy periods in school where it seems like there’s a different event, meeting, or deadline every day! Pop one on your monthly or weekly spread and use it as a way to highlight three things you must remember.
A different design for home and school
Our sticker book has a range of different designs, and you can use this to your advantage. If you use your teacher planner to organise your work and personal life, you can reflect that in the designs you choose! You could stick two of these list stickers on your weekly, monthly, or daily page, and have one design for your home and personal things to remember, and another design for your work and school tasks.
Dot stickers
An important task
Our dot stickers are a pretty sticker method of basically drawing a big circle around something, which we often do for a really important task! Maybe you have a long To Do list or a busy schedule and you want one of them to pop out a bit more to really showcase it.
Circle a date
Something else you may want to circle is an important date, like on your monthly or weekly pages. If you have an all-day event like a themed day or a school trip, you might want to circle that day. Or maybe there’s a deadline you want to highlight, like for class reports. Circle the day so your eye goes to it and you don’t forget what’s there!
Mark out changes to your schedule
If you’ve got something that happens at the same time each week or on the same day each week, it can throw your schedule off if it changes. Especially if it’s something you have in your head and don’t even need your planner to remember, like knowing you always have break duty on a Tuesday. You can use the dot stickers to mark out things that are different to normal, like if your break duty is a different day that week, or you won’t have a TA on a day you usually would.
Flag stickers
Birthdays/events
Flag stickers are a great way to mark out one day on your monthly or weekly calendar if you want to note something about that day. You could go through and mark out your students’ birthdays, or add in events that you need to be aware of but that don’t take over the whole day, like a guest speaker in assembly.
Timetable changes
Sometimes you’ll have things going on that mean you’re off timetable and doing something different, and a flag is a great way to note that. If you’ve got a trip to see a local show in the morning like a pantomime at Christmas, you can pop in a flag and note that you’re off timetable in the morning. Or if there’s a special speaker coming in for STEM week that means lunch time starts 10 minutes late, pop a flag in to note that down.
Meetings
Flags are great for marking meetings as they’re small enough to go neatly in just one of the boxes in your daily or teacher planner. So if you have a meeting in period 4, you can add a flag just to your fourth box and mark your meeting for that time slot.
Banner stickers
Important or Themed Days
Banner stickers are perfect for using in the daily or weekly planners to add some information that’s relevant for the whole day. Like if Sports Day is on a Thursday, pop it at the top of your Thursday in your planner to put a banner over the whole day and mark it out as important and different from the other days!
List headings
Great for those of you who like to write lists inside your planner, use the banner stickers to give your list a title. Maybe you’ve written ‘make resources’ on your To Do list, but you need somewhere to list out which resources you need to create. Use a free space on your daily or weekly planner, or use part of a notes page and pop in a banner sticker to create the heading. This way your list will stand out and it’ll be easy to find later.
Important events
Banner stickers are another great way to mark out important events, and they’re ideal because you can put them at the top of a day for all-day events, but you can also put them inside one of your schedule boxes to mark an important event that doesn’t last all day, like a big assembly or some CPD training.
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