
Making a Meal of It
Roger Hurn and Jay Mathews
Supporting lunchtime supervisors
An enormous amount of valuable teaching time can be taken up with resolving disputes that have boiled over during the midday break. This practical step-by-step guide, based on tried and tested ideas and methods, is designed to put an end to this. It provides everything you need to transform lunchtime from a potential disaster area to a well-structured and enjoyable experience for all staff and children. It will help you to build on existing good practice and develop new ideas for enhancing the quality of provision for everyone. The material is supported by handouts and checklists.
Contents
Introduction
1 The lunchtime team
2 A whole school approach to managing lunchtimes
- Step 1: Planning change
- Step 2: Analysing strengths and weaknesses
- Step 3: Identifying and developing success criteria
- Step 4: Outlining areas for development
- Step 5: Devising an action plan
- Step 6: Setting targets
- Step 7: Problem-solving
- Step 8: Reviewing progress
3 INSET
- INSET 1 I’m OK!
- INSET 2 Preparing
- INSET 3 Affirmations
- INSET 4 Relating to our own childhood
- INSET 5 Active listening
- INSET 6 Positive communication
- INSET 7 Communicating with children
- INSET 8 Positive use of language
- INSET 9 Communication activities
- INSET 10 Guidelines for good relationships
- INSET 11 Lunchtime survival techniques
- INSET 12 Behaviour and discipline
- INSET 13 Establishing positive lunchtime discipline
- INSET 14 Rewards and sanctions
- INSET 15 Pre-emptive strategies
- INSET 16 Setting up routines
- INSET 17 Sanctions, rewards and incentives
- INSET 18 Resolving conflict
- INSET 19 Children who can’t
- INSET 20 Playground games
- INSET 21 Successful games sessions
- INSET 22 Wet lunchtime management
- INSET 23 Proposals for action
4 Games to play
- Circle games
- Ball games
- Skipping, clapping and chanting games
- Parachute games
- Games requiring equipment
- No equipment games
- Games Granny played
Appendix: Health and Safety
Index to forms
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