Cafeteria/ Playground Expectations

1.       Classes should enter the cafeteria in single-file lines and proceed to their designated lunch line. Students bringing lunch from home should proceed directly to designated tables and begin eating.

2.       Stand quietly in line, keeping hands and feet to themselves.

3.       Respond politely to cafeteria personnel, answering questions and using good manners (please and thank you).

4.       There should be no talking among students in the serving area.

5.       Students should proceed to the designated table and sit in the order requested by the lunch duty teacher.

6.       Seats may not be saved.

7.       When requested, students should become silent and listen to announcements from the duty teacher.

8.       Stay seated at all times.  Request permission from the duty teacher or a lunch pal if you need something.

9.       While seated, students should face the table and not turn around in their seats.

10.    Lunch items should never be thrown, flipped, etc.  Dropped paper or plastic items should be picked up by the student who dropped them.

11.    When finished eating, students should collect trash and wait to be dismissed.  The duty teacher will dismiss each side of the table separately.  Stay seated until the duty teacher has indicated that you may be dismissed.

12.    When dismissed, students should place trash carefully in trash cans and line up along the north wall.  Do not lean against the wall. 

13.    When dismissed to go outside, students should place lunch pails in teacher containers and proceed outside.

14.    When dismissed for inside recess, the line should walk quietly back to the classroom.

15.    Parents are welcome to join students for lunch and may bring outside food in for their child only.  Pizza for small groups of students hurt the feelings of those left out. Team lunches, etc. should be held outside of school.

16.    Parents are expected to sit at the lunch table with the rest of their child’s class.  Unfortunately we cannot accommodate special seating.

* We ask that any parents visiting the cafeteria and/or playground respect the rules and support our enforcement of them. 

Outdoor play provides students with opportunities to develop large muscle skills, to learn to interact in socially appropriate ways with other children, and to express themselves freely.  Our playground has rules to ensure the safety of all children.  Each child must obey the rules in order to participate in playground activities.  In addition, students are encouraged to use good judgment in playing on all playground equipment.  The equipment is safe when used properly.

Playground Rules

1.       Stay within designated play areas.  Do not leave the school grounds.

2.       Limit throwing and kicking of objects to balls in games.  Rocks, dirt, sticks, twigs, and gravel should remain on the ground.

3.       Respect the rights of others to use their own space.  Avoid fighting, wrestling, shoving, and games that may cause injury to others.

4.       Each child should support him/herself.  Carrying another person, piggyback rides, human pyramids etc. are not allowed. 

5.       Remember that words can also hurt.  Name calling, teasing, and cursing are inappropriate behaviors at school and on the playground.

6.       Eat food and candy before leaving the cafeteria.  Gum chewing is not allowed at school.

7.       Go to the restroom before going outside.  Only return to the building in an emergency, with the permission of the duty teacher.

8.       Students may go into the grassland area or wetland area only when accompanied by a teacher. 

9.       Listen for special announcements regarding any safety hazards that may temporarily exist on the playground.

Equipment and Sports

1.       Big Toy – The grade level with the earliest lunch time may play on the big toy.  When the recess bell rings and the classes line up to go in, the next grade level may begin playing on the big toy.

2.       Bars – The bars are for hand-to-hand crossing.  Standing on top of the bars is not permitted.

3.       Slide – Be courteous; wait until the people in front on you have moved out of the way before starting down.  The only entry to the slide is from the top!  The tunnel and tubes are NOT for climbing.

4.       Swings – One person at a time is permitted in a swing.  Push safely.  No jumping from the swings.  Swings should stay at the level of the chain when in motion.

5.       Balls – Equipment (balls, jump ropes, etc.) is to be checked out from the playground monitors.  No toys or balls are to be brought from home.  Balls will not be used on rainy days.

6.       Basketball will be played only on the court.  Students who do not observe the rules and continue to be extremely rough in their play will be prohibited from playing the sport for a considerable amount of time, as determined by the recess monitor, teacher, and/or principal.

7.       Students may not play tag or any games of chase.

8.       Absolutely no wall ball!