Set up your own school week
Schools do not all run the same week. Some teach Monday to Friday, others Sunday to Thursday, some have a half day or Saturday classes, and a private tutor or a weekend school may only meet twice a week. So this timetable maker has no fixed week: you pick the first day and the number of days, and the grid follows. Each lesson is stored against its weekday, not its column, so if you change the first day from Monday to Sunday your Monday lessons stay on Monday. Check the days against your school’s own calendar or the timetable the class teacher sends home.
Periods, breaks and times
Each row of the grid is a period with a start and end time. Mark a row as a break and it prints as one band across the week with its own label, such as break, lunch or prayer. If your school publishes a bell schedule, type the times in as they are. If not, Generate periods builds a regular day for you: give it the first start time, the length of a lesson, how many lessons there are, any minutes between lessons for moving rooms, and one break after the lesson you choose. The tool warns you when a period ends before it starts or overlaps the one before. Times can be shown on a 24-hour or a 12-hour clock.
Colours, teachers and rooms
Colour is what makes a timetable quick to read: a child learns that blue is maths without reading a word. Every subject gets a light colour that prints well and keeps black text readable, and you can change it to match exercise book covers or the colours a school already uses. The teacher and room appear on a smaller second line in each lesson, which helps in the first weeks of a new school year or in secondary schools where students move between labs and classrooms. Leave them blank for a younger child’s simpler chart.
Check the week before you print
Under the grid, the tool counts lessons and teaching time per subject for the days you show, leaving breaks out. It is a quick way to spot a lesson you forgot or a subject entered twice: if the school says there are five maths lessons and the count shows four, one cell is missing. Copy day helps when most days repeat the same pattern. The printed page fits on one A4 sheet in landscape with the colours kept, and the PNG is sized for A4 at 150 dpi, which also reads well on a phone screen.
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