Middle School Student Planning System | ADHD & Executive Function Support
Help your middle schooler see what’s coming, decide what needs attention, and make a plan—without expecting them to manage everything on their own.
The Middle School Student Planning System is a printable 5-page planning system designed to help middle school students gradually build the executive functioning skills behind managing school, activities, responsibilities, and time.
Middle school asks students to keep track of more—more teachers, more assignments, more due dates, more activities, and more places where information lives. For students with ADHD or executive functioning challenges, simply telling them to “use a planner” may not be enough.
This system gives them a repeatable process:
CHECK • SEE • PLAN
CHECK — Start with My School Day Check-In to look at the places school information actually lives and identify what needs attention.
SEE — Use My Week at a Glance to put school, activities, responsibilities, and available time in one place.
PLAN — Decide what needs attention now, what can wait, what realistically fits, and where support might help.
The goal isn’t perfect planning or expecting a middle schooler to suddenly manage everything independently. It’s to make the invisible work of planning more visible, concrete, and repeatable—and gradually hand over more as the routine becomes familiar.
YOUR DOWNLOAD INCLUDES
5-page Middle School Student Planning System
My School Day Check-In — a simple routine for checking their planner, classes, school portal/LMS, upcoming work, and what needs to happen next
How to Use My Week at a Glance — guidance for building a realistic picture of the week before deciding what fits
My Week at a Glance — a two-page weekly view that brings together scheduled commitments, responsibilities, schoolwork, open space, and things they want time for
A5 version
US Letter version
START HERE Printing Guide
Reprint and reuse the planning pages as needed for your household.
This system can be used independently or paired with the Middle School Parent Check-In System when a student still benefits from more adult support.
Start together. Hand over more as the routine becomes familiar.
SIZE
Both sizes are included:
A5 — 148 × 210 mm / 5.83 × 8.27 inUS Letter — 8.5 × 11 in
Choose the format that works best for your student—or use both.
PRINTING
Print the US Letter version on standard 8.5 × 11 in paper or use the A5 version with A5 paper or an A5 planner/binder.
Printing instructions for both sizes are included with your download.
PLEASE NOTE
This is a digital download. No physical product will be shipped.
Designed by Lori Field, LCSW, ADHD-CCSP, with ADHD, executive functioning, real-life school demands, and growing independence in mind.
For educational and organizational purposes only. This resource is not a substitute for individualized mental health care, medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Personal household use only. Not for resale, redistribution, sharing, or commercial/professional use.
