Homeschool Pacing Planner

A free browser tool

How many chapters this week? It works it out.

Pacing guides are sold blank, and the advice printed on them is to divide the book by the weeks yourself. Give this your term dates, your breaks, and how long each book is, and every week gets its own numbers. No account, and nothing leaves this tab.

Step 1

The year

School days

Children and subjects

How many of each there are in the whole book or course. The unit is printed as you write it, so use chapters, lessons, or pages as you like. Give a finish date only if a book has to be done before the year ends, such as a one-term course. Add a second child and the weekly sheets carry both, one page a week rather than one page per child per week.

Breaks

Whole weeks inside a break are skipped, and part weeks simply have fewer days.

Sheets to print

How it works

The weeks are counted, then the books are divided across them

  1. Your breaks are taken out, so what is left is the weeks you actually teach.
  2. Each book is split across those weeks so the totals come out exact, with the busier weeks spread through the year rather than piled at the front.
  3. You get a summary to check the year fits, a grid of the whole year, and a weekly sheet with the ranges written out.

FAQ

Before you use it

What happens to the remainder?

A hundred lessons over thirty-six weeks is not a whole number. The extra lessons are spread through the year rather than added to the first weeks, and the total still comes out at exactly a hundred. Rounding each week and hoping is what leaves a book three chapters short in June.

Can it say which day, not just which week?

Tick Break each week down by day and each subject gets a line under it spreading that week across the days the week actually has. A week with a bank holiday in it is split over four days, not five, because that is what the week is.

What if a book has to finish before the year does?

Give that subject a finish date. It is then spread only across the weeks up to it, and the weeks after are left empty for that subject rather than being given a share of a book that is already over.

Can I plan more than one child at once?

Yes. The term dates and the breaks are shared and only the books differ, so each child gets their own year overview and their own line in the summary, while the weekly sheets carry every child on one page. A family with three children puts one page on the fridge each week rather than three.

What are catch-up weeks?

Weeks at the end that nothing is scheduled into. Illness and slow weeks happen, and a plan with no slack is a plan you abandon in February.

What about a week with a day off in it?

It still counts as a teaching week with fewer days, and the summary tells you how many of those there are, because the same load in fewer days is what makes a week feel impossible.

Is this free?

Yes. This validation version has no payment or account.

Is what I type stored?

No. The plan is worked out and drawn in this tab. Anonymous usage events and feedback are recorded.

Privacy

We record anonymous interaction events, a random browser session identifier, referral source, device category, and feedback. We do not intentionally collect names, email addresses, IP addresses, or the text entered into the tool.

Terms

This experimental tool is provided as-is. Check the plan against your own curriculum and any local requirements before relying on it.