Lesson planner

The sheet is titled Weekly hourly planner, Monday to Friday, 09:00 to 15:00. One sheet of A4, landscape, five columns and seven time rows. It is drawn by the page rather than downloaded from one: a geometry engine measures the grid to the paper and writes the PDF byte by byte in the reader’s own browser, and every change to a control produces a fresh drawing and a fresh file.

A shorter day than the other hourly sheet

This drawing starts at 09:00 and finishes at 15:00, where the other hourly sheet in the range runs 08:00 to 16:00. The difference is not decoration. Rows that will never be written in eat the height that the remaining rows could have had, so a timetable that genuinely begins at nine is better served by a grid that begins at nine.

The range is inclusive at both ends. The 15:00 row exists on the paper, ruled and empty. A grid described as running to 15:00 that quietly stops an hour short has taken the last part of the day off the sheet, and the reader only finds that out with the page already printed.

52.8 millimetres

No week start control here

A five day sheet is the working week, Monday to Friday, whatever the week start is set to. Five columns beginning on a Sunday would not be a working week at all. So the five day sheets do not offer a week start control, and that absence is deliberate: a control the drawing ignores is a control that lies. The seven column sheet in the range is where the first day of the week is a real question.

What the drawing contains

Day labels are set to full, so the columns are headed with whole names. As drawn, the sheet reports 17 rules and 14 words of set type, with no boxes and no squares. The finished PDF is 2,559 bytes, which is what a page of pure line work and lettering costs when there is no artwork anywhere in it.

Nothing is printed inside the cells. There is no objectives box, no resources column, no starter and plenary strip, because the moment a sheet names its own sections it has decided how somebody else plans. An hour by day grid takes a scheme of work laid out one way just as readily as another.

Black only

Every sheet on the site prints in black, and this one is no exception. A form whose meaning depends on colour arrives out of a mono printer with its meaning removed. Black rules print identically on the cheapest machine in the building, and any colour coding is a pen away once the sheet is in hand.

Made where it is read

Nothing is hosted, nothing is licensed, and nothing is sent anywhere. The preview on the page and the file that downloads come out of the same drawing pass, so what is on screen is what is in the PDF. Across the site there are 25 sheets built this way, amounting to 1,119 rules, 234 boxes and 93 time slots in total.