The start of the week, in about two minutes
Students take two slow box breaths with their own circle, then tap what is coming up this week. At the end of the week they come back and tap what they did.
A tutor time logbook built from your own pastoral programme
Students check in each week and the logbook names the strengths they show, so a tutor can see how the whole group is doing. It works for mixed age tutor groups from 11 to 16.
- Name
- Chloe Bennett
- Tutor group
- Rowan F
- Programme
- Tutor time
Chloe and her house are invented, but the logbook is the real one.
Try the logbook itself
This is the tutor time logbook as students and tutors use it, with made up students in an invented house called Rowan. Use the bar along its top to switch between a student's view and the tutor's. Nothing you do leaves your browser.
What a week looks like
Two short check ins fit inside morning tutor time.
A map that grows all year
The logbook names the strength behind what a student did and adds a ring to their map. Sixteen strengths sit in four groups, so over a year the map becomes a picture they can read. Each term they set one goal and it asks every week whether they kept it.
Take a minute
Box breathing and a few quiet activities, such as a pattern to colour, are there whenever a student needs them. Nothing in this part is saved or seen by anyone.
What the tutor sees
One page for the group, without opening eighteen logbooks.
The group's week on one page
It shows who has checked in and whose goal has been stuck for weeks, with each student's latest line beside their name. When one student spots a strength in another, the tutor approves it before it appears.
If a student writes something that matches a word on your safeguarding list, it is put at the top for the tutor to read and your school's own procedure takes over from there.
The board, for the classroom screen
The whole group's map sits beside a ten minute timer for the morning. Breathe together settles the room before anyone opens a laptop.
Built from your own programme
The sample shows one way to do it. Yours starts from what your pastoral team already does.
- Your strength words
- The sample uses sixteen, from Noticing to Perseverance. Yours can be your school's own values or character framework, in your own wording.
- Your houses
- House names, colours and emblems are yours. Rowan and its emblem are invented for this sample.
- Your year
- Each term has a theme. The sample's first term is “Who I am” and your themes follow your own programme.
- Your safeguarding list
- You decide which words are flagged for a tutor to read and who is told.
- Who sees what
- A tutor sees their own group and a head of house sees their house. Nobody sees what a student does in Take a minute.
- Where it lives
- It runs inside your school's own Google Workspace and no student writing is sent to an AI service. The strengths are named by rules, from what a student taps.
It is a record of what students do and notice about themselves. It is not a counselling tool and conversations about how a student is feeling stay with their tutor.
Send me your programme
Tell me how your tutor time runs and what your school wants students to notice about themselves. I'll reply by email and say what a logbook for it would look like and what it would cost.
I'm Amy Garside, an IB head of department. I built this logbook myself and I build every school's version myself. A whole school programme is priced from what yours involves and the prices for a single course are on the front page.