Playground expectations before 8.50am and after 3.15pm

Please help the galley Hill Community to have a positive, happy & safe experience on the Schools playgrounds. Our playgrounds are very busy with adults, children and young children. We need to ensure everyone’s safety. These expectations are to ensure no one is hit or hurt while waiting on the playground. We will be talking about these in assembly and the school council will be completing a review of the expectations.

• Bikes and scooters must be walked onto the school playground. No riding bikes or scooters on the school grounds.
• Balls can hit and hurt others. No footballs or balls to be used on the school playgrounds before or after school.
• Please do not sit or stand on the table tennis tables. They are not made to hold the wait of people.
• The benches and petal shelters are to be sat on. Do not stand or climb on them.
• The play trails are not monitored by staff before or after school. Please do not use them before or after school.
• Please show others respect. Always speak politely to others and let others through gates, doorways and down steps. 

We ask that children arrive on time. Being punctual is important for both your child and for the rest of the class. Children line up in their playgrounds to be led into class by their teachers. As they hang up their coats and sort out their bags, children settle in to a familiar routine and become ready to participate in learning. A late arrival disturbs this routine and can unsettle both your child and the class as a whole.

At the end of the school day, the children in the Foundation Area and Key Stage 1 stay in their classrooms with their teacher until a parent or carer is seen to be waiting outside to collect them. No child in Foundation or Key Stage 1 will be allowed to leave the classroom until someone is there to collect them. The school must be informed if the regular person is not collecting the child.

In Key Stage 2, the children may meet their parent or carer on the playground.