Get to Know My Child
The form families fill in so a teacher knows who they are teaching.
Free. No account, no email, nothing to install.Families and teachers · First weeks of term
No email address, no account. Print as many as you need, including for a whole class.
For schools and PTOs
Put your school's name on it
Type a school name and it appears on the sheet. Print a class set or a school set — there is nothing to buy and nothing to attribute.
The name you type stays in this browser. It is not sent to us, not saved, and not recorded anywhere — closing the tab is enough to remove it. In the print dialog, choose Save as PDF to keep a copy.
What the sheet asks
- What should I know about your child that won’t be in their file?
- What are they proud of?
- What comes easily to them?
- What’s hard for them right now?
- How do they respond when something is difficult?
- What helps them settle?
- Anything happening at home I should know about? Only what you’re comfortable sharing.
- Anything else?
How to use it
- Print one per child and send them home in the first week.
- Families fill it in by hand — it takes about ten minutes.
- Keep them with your class records and read them before you need them.
Send it home in the first week of term, before you have formed a view of the child and while a family still has things they are waiting to be asked. It takes a family about ten minutes. Keep the returned sheets with your class records and read them again in week three, when the names have attached themselves to faces.
Questions people ask
- Can I print a class set?
- Yes. Print as many as you need, for a class, a year group or a whole school. There is no licence to buy and nothing to attribute.
- Does it need colour?
- No. It is designed for a black and white school printer on US Letter, and it is meant to be written on with a pen.
- Can a family fill it in without a teacher asking?
- Yes, and some do. Fill it in and hand it to the teacher in the first week — most teachers are glad to have it and few will have thought to ask.
- What if a family would rather not answer something?
- They should leave it blank. The home question says so on the sheet, on purpose. A form that feels compulsory gets short answers or no answers.
The thinking behind it
Get to Know My Child: The Form Worth Sending Home in Week One
A teacher meets twenty-five names and a stack of files. The family already knows what helps, what is hard, and what the child is proud of — this asks for it in week one.