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Combining schools

by JM

Apr 6, 2009

I am looking for some help. We are consolidating schools. We are adding 8 classes to our building. We have always had cafeteria duty with our class and then someone takes the children out for recess. We have a 30min. duty free lunch.

So my questions are

*How does your school handle the teacher lunch time? Who covers the class or recess?

*If you have inside recess on rainy or cold days who does the coverage if that is the teacher's lunch time.

*How many classes eat in your cafeteria at one time. Right now we have 4-5 classes with 4 lunch blocks. If we stay with 4 blocks, there will be 7 classes in the cafeteria. Will be tight by doable seating wise....just don't know if 20 minutes is enough time to get their lunch and eat.

Thanks for any help you can give....

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Debbie On 4/06/09, Kimberly wrote: > On 4/06/09, JM wrote: >> I am looking for some help. We are consolidating schools. >> We are adding 8 classes to our building. We have always had >> cafeteria duty with our class and then someone takes the >> children out for recess. We have a 30min. duty free lunch. >> >> So my q...See MoreOn 4/06/09, Kimberly wrote: > On 4/06/09, JM wrote: >> I am looking for some help. We are consolidating schools. >> We are adding 8 classes to our building. We have always had >> cafeteria duty with our class and then someone takes the >> children out for recess. We have a 30min. duty free lunch. >> >> So my questions are >> >> *How does your school handle the teacher lunch time? Who >> covers the class or recess? >> >> *If you have inside recess on rainy or cold days who does >> the coverage if that is the teacher's lunch time. >> >> *How many classes eat in your cafeteria at one time. Right >> now we have 4-5 classes with 4 lunch blocks. If we stay >> with 4 blocks, there will be 7 classes in the cafeteria. >> Will be tight by doable seating wise....just don't know if >> 20 minutes is enough time to get their lunch and eat. >> >> Thanks for any help you can give.... > > 20 minutes is enough time to eat unless students are standing > in line to purchase lunch for any length of time. In our > building one teacher or adult is responsibile for 2 classes > if the classes are inside the cafeteria or outside on the > playground. If it's indoor recess, 1 adult per class because > we use our own classrooms. We do use parent volunteers. > With volunteers there still must be one employee in the > cafeteria or one employee on the outdoor playground. For > indoor recess one teacher has to be in one of the two rooms > the are next to each other and a parent or parents can be in > the other. > > At my other school we rotated in and out of the cafeteria - > 11:30 - 11:50 1st, 2nd, 3rd in cafeteria outdoors 11:50 to > 12:15 > ll:50 - 12:10 Kindergarten in cafeteria - outside until 12:35 > 12:00 - 12:15 (or until finished eating) grades 5-8 Outdoors > until 12:35 > 8 classes cleared the cafeteria within the space of an hour! You must be in a small school. We have approximately 950 students and lunch is from 10:30-12:30 with 5-10 minutes between classes coming in. 20 minutes is plenty; mine have 25 minutes and many finish in 10-15 so that leaves 10 minutes to get into mischief! OUr contract requires that teachers get 25 minutes lunch with out student contact. Teachers started doing lunch duty this year and it's a big waste of classroom time. I guess I'm not much help!

Apr 6, 2009

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Lunch periods We have 3 lunch periods, with approx 250 kids at each. Our contract requires 30 minutes of duty free lunch for teachers, so the kids' lunch is basically 35 minutes long. Then we have 2.5 minutes on either side to take/pick up the kids. They are supervised in the cafeteria by aides who are paid min. wage to do it. They also take the kids out for rec...See More

Apr 6, 2009

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Sam We have aides who stay with the children in the cafeteria for 25 minutes and then either take them outside or to the classroom for free time depending on the weather. The teachers then have their 50 minute lunch period.

Apr 9, 2009

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Janette For recess the three teachers rotate supervision-- two go out on the playground, the other gets extra planning time. If it rains, the classroom with the non-supervising teacher is split up among the other rooms for games and so forth.

Lunch supervision is handled by a rotation of aides, student teachers, parents, office staff, even the cus...See More

Apr 11, 2009

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Teach Boy, I feel very fortunate. We have paid aides that cover our lunch periods of 45 minutes. If it rains, students eat in our rooms and aides cover our classes. Our lunch time is shortened to 30 minutes. We have 3 lunches with 650 kids. Our lunches start at 11:30 and go to 12:45.

When I first started teaching years, years, and years ago we h...See More

Apr 11, 2009

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