Packing from the timetable

The sheet

For the first weeks at a new school, pack the bag together the night before, then choose a date when it becomes your child’s job.

For the fridge · A4 landscape · One page · PDF, 40 KB

How it helps

A new timetable is a lot for your child to hold in their head in the first weeks. Packing the bag together the night before takes that worry away while everything is new, and handing it over on a date you’ve agreed gives them a job they can manage on their own.

How to use it

1. Put it on the fridge beside your child’s timetable, and fill in what goes in the bag on each day of the week.
2. For the first few weeks, pack the bag together the night before, using the sheet.
3. Agree a date when the bag becomes their job, and write it on the sheet.
4. An inhaler, an adrenaline pen or any medicine your child needs is checked by an adult every morning, whoever packs the bag.

How to get this sheet

This sheet comes with a subscription. It is also yours with its chapter, if that is the chapter you read free, or if a teacher or therapist sends it to you. School staff and therapists signed in to their shelf can print it too.

The first chapter you open here is free to read in full, with its sheets. This one goes with The Move to Secondary School.

Free to print

These are free to anyone, with nothing to sign up for.

• A plan for a bad dayTo fill in together · A4
• Before you ring the schoolFor a call or a meeting · A4
• What to say: school and friendsCards to cut out · A4, eight cards to cut
• Before the SENCo meetingFor a meeting · A4
• Three reports, side by sideFor a meeting · A4 landscape
• The return-to-school meetingFor a meeting · A4
• The move to secondary school, for a parents’ eveningFor a parents’ evening · A4, five pages
• The last half-hour before bedFor the fridge · A4
• The worry ladderTo fill in together · A4
• Before you see the GP about your childFor an appointment · A4, two sides
• A record of what happenedFor a call or a meeting · A4, two pages
• The people I can tellTo make together · A4, two pages

Every sheet, marked free or with a subscription, is at theparentbook.com/printables.