School circular year planner

A year wheel holds every date a school needs to see at once: terms, holidays, exam periods, parent evenings, report deadlines, staff training, trips, open days, and the windows set aside for building next year's timetable. Each one becomes a color-coded arc, placed on the month it happens.

Rings split those dates by who they belong to. One ring for whole-school dates, another for leadership work, others for year groups, departments, exams, communications, or operations, so the same wheel serves a governors' meeting and a single department's planning day without becoming two different documents.

Busy periods show up without anyone counting them. Assessment weeks, reporting, events, and planning work tend to land in the same month; on a wheel those overlaps sit next to each other, so a team can move a date before it reaches staff and students. Filters narrow the wheel to one ring, category, or label, and the month agenda reads any month as a plain list once the conversation moves from the year to the next few weeks.

The sample plan runs August to July and carries 21 dated activities. Before the new year: staff development days, term start, an open house, budget planning, a staff wellbeing survey, autumn break, a parents' evening, mock exams, a winter concert, and Christmas break. After it: course selection, staffing review, winter sports week, a spring parents' evening, the main timetable planning window, Easter break, spring fair, final exams, grading, graduation, and summer break.

Spread across whole-school, teaching-team, and leadership rings and read as one wheel, those 21 dates answer two questions a planner actually asks: what's happening this month, and what else is competing for the same weeks. Filtered to a single ring, the same wheel drops to just that team's arcs, so a department head preparing for one meeting sees their dates only, not all 21.

This is a single planner per browser, with up to 4 rings and 80 activities after recurring events expand. Sharing is read-only: a share link or embed shows the plan to others without letting them edit it. There are no accounts, no live calendar sync beyond a one-time ICS export, and no file attachments.

The wheel coordinates when things happen across the year. School year planning in Smootables models the courses, groups, and teacher workloads behind those dates and generates the weekly timetable from the same plan.