Create a Weekly Timetable in the Classroom
Combine the days of the week from the Magnetic Months and Weekdays pack with extra cards to create a Weekly Visual Timetable on a magnetic whiteboard for students .
Daily Classroom Timetable
When the Daily Classroom Timetable was first developed over 10 years ago, the principle focus was to make sure students understood what activity or subject they were doing next.
An extension of the magnetic Daily Classroom Timetable was the magnetic Months and Weekdays.
The initial layout for the Daily Classroom Timetable was shown vertically with 2 cards from the Months and Weekdays pack at the top ‘Today is’ – ‘Monday’. This made the Months and Weekdays pack more of an accessory to the Daily Classroom Timetable than a necessary addition.
However, over time, the range of extra cards available has allowed for the Months and Weekday’s pack to be a useful visual aid on its own. Allowing for teachers to create a Weekly Visual Timetable to show students what events may be happening in the week to come.
Some of the new cards that could apply to a weekly time schedule include SRC, Harmony Day, Junior Writers Club, Weekly Review Journal, Swimming, Sports Day and Work Experience to name a few.
Timetable Extra Cards
There are now more than 400+ Extra Cards available.
These new cards ranged from new subjects added into the curriculum,
to individual cards wanted by teachers to add to their classrooms.
With so many new magnetic cards available it is now possible to create a Weekly Visual Timetable together with the magnetic Months and Weekdays pack.
Add the Weekdays to your current Daily Classroom Timetable
A simple way to include the Weekdays is to add them onto the Daily Clasroom Timetable layout.
Innovative Design assistance recognises that wall space in the classroom is important, and in particular the space on the classrooms’ magnetic whiteboard. So we have come up with a few ideas of layouts to help utilise the Months and Weekdays pack efficiently.
To maintain the vertical layout you may already be using for your Daily Classroom Timetable, adding the extra day of ‘Yesterday was’ and ‘Tomorrow will be’ as part of that layout at the top and the bottom will keep extra space you are using on the whiteboard to a minimum. The standard height of a whiteboard is 1200mm, so it is possible to squeeze 20 cards lined up from the top to the bottom of the whiteboard.
But this may visually confuse younger children as the weekdays are broken up on the board with the Daily ClassroomTimetable in the middle.
And if you complete the week as shown in the image, it only allows for another thirteen subject and activity cards for the day.
Layout for a
Weekly Visual Timetable
Extra activity cards combined with the days of the week can create a visual weekly timetable for your classroom.
If your whiteboard is big enough, it may be better to create a separate visual Weekly Timetable to enable students to see events that will be happening throughout the week. That way if there is a planned special day coming up, like the school ‘Sports Day or maybe a ‘Spelling Test’, the students can be reminded throughout the week.
One way to create a Weekly Timetable is to show the weekdays horizontally across the top of the whiteboard. This way the weekday cards can be kept permanently on the whiteboard without taking up too much space. As the image ‘Weekly Timetable Layout’ shows the three cards ‘Yesterday was’, ‘Today is’ and ‘Tomorrow will be’ could be placed above the top of the weekdays showing the respective past, present and future day to come.
Weekly Timetable Layout
Shown above is a layout for a Weekly Timetable which can be used on any magnetic whiteboard with the Magnetic Months and Weekdays pack and extra activity cards. The layout is shown on a standard whiteboard 1500mm wide.
Magnetic Months and Weekdays medium sized cards
If you are short on space, maybe you need the medium sized pack of the magnetic Months and Weekdays.
The image ‘Weekly Timetable Layout’ shows the Weekly Visual Timetable on a standard 1500mm wide whiteboard. This is one of the smallest standard wall-mounted whiteboards used in classrooms. Unfortunately, some classrooms have even smaller whiteboards. If you are using a much smaller magnetic whiteboard it may be easier for you to purchase the ‘medium-sized’ Months and Weekdays pack.
Both the Daily Classroom Timetable and the Months and Weekdays are available in a smaller size. The medium card size is 142.5mm x 45mm.
Want to see more layouts
Download the Weekly Visual Timetable PDF for free!
Weekly Timetable Horizontal Layout
View the Weekly Timetable horizontal layout on the whiteboard using large or medium sized Month and Weekday cards.
Weekly Timetable Vertical Layout
View the Weekly Timetable vertical layout on the whiteboard using large or medium sized Month and Weekday cards.
Download the Weekly Timetable Layout PDF and view which layout suits your whiteboard.
Weekly Timetable PDF layout
Do you have another layout idea for the
Weekly Visual Timetable?
Contact us so we can add it to our Weekly Timetable Layout PDF.