School Duty Procedures

Definition:

‘School Duty’ is the monitoring of pupils at non-teaching times. It occurs between 8.30 am and 3.30 pm and is carried out by teachers.
 

Guidelines:

Duty Times

There will be a duty roster in place for all teaching staff.

The duty roster covers the following times:

• Before school: 8.30 – 9.05 am - all teachers will be available to assist non-bus children requiring help and to monitor play areas and classrooms.

• Playtime: 10.35 – 11.00 am

• Lunchtime: 12.30 – 1.00, 1.00- 1.25pm

• After school
  a) Bus – duties as listed below
  b) Playground – all teachers will be available to assist children requiring help and to monitor play areas and classrooms.

• Wet day lunchtimes - all teachers will remain with their own class until 12.45 at which time the duty teacher will take over. The teacher on second half lunch duty will be released at 12.30 to eat their lunch. A duty monitor from Room 5 will be sent to their classroom until the duty teacher takes over.

• Wet day playtimes – children sit at their desk while eating morning tea. Room 5 children will monitor the Room 1, 2 and 3 classrooms – teachers should remain in class until the monitors arrive.

Duty at West Eyreton School Comprises:

Playground duty:

• supervision of the entire playground, including out of bounds areas

• supervision of classrooms, library, toilet areas, and in and around sheds

• monitoring of behaviour and performing any necessary follow-up, including reporting of serious misdemeanour to other staff . There is a system in place for doing this at staff meetings and such incidents will be noted in the Behaviour Book.

• noting and promoting particularly good behaviour, including incidents of kindness. There are tokens that may be given to children for good behaviour and names can be put forward for our school ‘Kindness Awards’. Both of these are promoted at school assemblies.

• noting any excessive rubbish, health and safety risks, and maintenance issues and reporting back via the appropriate channels. There is a maintenance book to record such items in. This is monitored by the BOT.

• supervision of children whilst they eat their lunch. This includes ensuring that children remain seated until 12.45 at which time the duty teacher will check lunch boxes and dismiss children.

• ensuring that children remain in their own classrooms or in the library during wet day playtimes, and checking that children are engaged in quiet activities. (Some older children may be given permission to assist in junior classrooms on wet days.)

• ringing the school bell at the end of each break.

• dealing with injuries and accidents. This includes enlisting help from other staff if the incident is likely to remove the duty teacher from the playground for any length of time.

• recording injuries, other than minor scrapes and bruises ( eg sticking plasters) in the school accident register.

• ensuring that the duties are covered if called away to other matters. (eg telephone, visitors, sports trips, etc)

• in the event of an earthquake occurring during duty, activate the correct Earthquake response i.e inside or outside building response

Bus duty:

• ensuring that phone and written messages about bus passengers are checked and forwarded to the appropriate children

• ensuring that children are checked off as they enter the bus in the afternoon and that any queries are followed up before the bus departs.

• noting any issues regarding the bus to the Bus Controller.