Printable Back to School Checklist (Free PDF)
Supplies written for the age your child actually is, with uniform, lunch, the forms the school wants back and the week that starts it all.
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Six sections, 45 printed items. The first two change with the age you choose. Elementary lists pencils, crayons, safety scissors, wide-ruled notebooks, a book bag and a recorder. Middle school lists pens, highlighters, a protractor and compass, a scientific calculator, squared paper, a lab coat and a PE kit. High school lists a ring binder, index cards, a graphing calculator, set texts, a laptop and charger, and somewhere to back work up.
The other four sections stay the same, because a uniform, a lunch box and a permission slip do not change much between eleven and sixteen. Uniform and clothing covers tops, shoes, PE kit, a coat and name labels in everything. Lunch and after school covers the box, the bottle, the lunch account and the bus pass. Forms to return gathers the paperwork schools ask for in the first fortnight and lose patience with in the third.
The last section is the first week itself: walk the route once, test the morning with a real alarm, agree a bedtime and a screen cut-off, pack the bag the night before, put the timetable on the fridge and save the school office number. Two write-in boxes hold what is still to buy and the teacher, bus and club times. All of it is fillable. One page, US Letter or A4.
