YearMap Academic Calendar Made Simple
Completely free for schools

Your school year,
planned in minutes.

YearMap is a free online academic calendar builder for schools.

Set your term dates, add INSET and non-pupil days, and YearMap handles bank holidays and pupil-day calculations for you. In minutes you'll have a professional school calendar, ready to export as PDF or ICS.

See a sample calendar View example PDF outputs →

How it works

Create your school academic calendar

No manual to read, no training session to book. Set your dates, add your important days, and export a calendar ready to share.

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Set your school year

Enter the term and half-term dates.

2

Add important dates

Add INSET days, closures and other dates, and YearMap handles the calculations.

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Export or share your calendar

Generate a professional PDF and ICS calendar, ready to distribute.

See it for yourself

This is what
your calendar looks like.

No sign-up needed to take a look. Open a real example PDF, exactly what YearMap generates for your school.

Portrait

Portrait Layout

The classic A4 format, ideal for printing and pinning. Months stack cleanly down the page with full event detail and colour coding.

A4 Portrait Print-ready Full academic year Colour coded
Open Portrait Example Landscape

Landscape Layout

Wider format with more breathing room per month, great for screens, governor reports, and wall displays.

A4 Landscape Screen-friendly Full academic year Colour coded
Open Landscape Example

These are real outputs generated by YearMap. No design work, no tweaking, no exporting to Word. Just click and go.

What YearMap handles for you

Everything your academic calendar needs

A small set of things done properly, so you don't have to think about any of them again.

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Automatic pupil-day calculations

Statutory pupil days are counted automatically as you build your calendar.

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Bank holidays handled

England & Wales bank holidays are added for you, no manual lookups.

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INSET days & closures

Add INSET days, non-pupil days and school closures in a couple of clicks.

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Professional PDF output

A print-ready PDF for noticeboards, governors and letters home.

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ICS calendar export

Publish a live ICS feed that parents and staff can subscribe to.

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Easy to update and reuse

Roll your calendar over next year, instead of rebuilding a spreadsheet.

Related tools: School calendar generator Academic calendar generator Pupil days calculator

Beyond the calendar

Turn your academic calendar
into a live school diary.

Building your official calendar doesn't have to be the end. Clone it into an Internal Calendar, share it with colleagues, and it becomes your school's collaborative diary for the whole year: parents' evenings, trips, staff meetings, training, performances and more.

Create academic calendar

Your official published calendar

Clone as internal calendar

A private working copy

Collaborate & add events

Colleagues add the year's events

Staff subscribe once

Google, Outlook, Apple & more

Stays updated

PDF & ICS refresh automatically

Staff subscribe once, in whatever calendar app they already use. When the calendar changes, the live ICS feed updates itself, and YearMap keeps the PDF current too, so it never quietly goes stale.

Live ICS feed Multiple editors Works with any calendar app

Free & secure

Sign in safely. Nothing to install.

Schools think carefully about which tools they allow. Here's the short version of how YearMap handles access and data.

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No passwords, ever

Sign in with your existing Google or Microsoft school account. We never see or store a password.

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Minimal data only

We store your school name, email, calendar events and settings. Nothing more.

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Your school stays in control

Your IT administrator can revoke access at any time through your school's own account settings.

Build your school calendar
in minutes.

Free for schools. Sign in with Google or Microsoft to get started.

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