Shifting Lunch and Recess Schedules

We are excited to make some changes (starting Monday, 3/31) to our lunch/recess schedule!

The kindergarten and first grade lunch/recess times were able to remain, for the most part, unaltered. Second through fifth grades had to rearrange some of the things that they teach so that everything still fit into their day. We believe that these changes will have a positive impact on our students. As a result, some of the highlights are:

• Providing increased adult supervision during transitions (to and from lunch and recess)
• Providing increased consistency and supervision at recess
• Four adults instead of three adults on the playground
• No longer taking away staff to bring-in classes while other students remain at recess
• Benefit of recess before lunch for the upper grades
• A longer gap between lunch recess and afternoon recess for the upper grades
• No longer a need for lunch helpers from the upper grades to be pulled away from the classroom during instructional time
• It will reduce the amount of student traffic flow in and out of our locked front entry way over the lunch hour

We are going to try this for the last two months of the school year. We are open to making adjustments as we go.