Page 20 - Handbook for House Staff

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Daily Routine
• Registration – this must be done at breakfast/8.10am, lunch, 7.10pm, during Homework and at bedtime. These are legal requirements. If a pupil is missing, please follow the missing pupil policy guidelines (in the Staff Handbook, Pastoral Section). At breakfast registration, day pupils’ parents should be rung by 8.30am to see why they are absent. If you use pupils to do a register, you must check it yourself too. Staff are legally responsible for registration.
• Please check pupils’ appearance at morning and lunchtime registration. Registration is a good time to give out notices. Daily House should be read out after lunch. You can get your HOH to do this BUT please make sure that important notices are brought to individual pupils’ attention.
• Lunch – HouseMs or Deputies need to be there for arriving guests, where teaching commitments allow, or pre-warn the Assistant. You will have guests for coffee after lunch but be aware that straight after lunch is a prime time for inappropriate behaviour. Please try to nip up to key corridors to be a presence in the House. Assistants will probably need to be in the duty room to give out medication etc. Tutor meetings are held on Thursdays after lunch and House Assistants should also attend these when on duty. You must have formal house staff meetings at least every fortnight. Minutes must go onto Teams. On Saturdays, check the commitments of individual pupils for that afternoon. They can’t go uptown before 3.30pm on Saturdays unless they have a chit with your special permission. After 3.30pm on Saturdays, pupils don’t need a chit.
• Supper – the tutor should do the register. If you do it on paper, it then needs to be entered on iSAMs under the HouseM’s name.
• Homework – during Homework the tutor will go round and check everyone is working quietly. They register as they go round. Some pupils will have commitments outside the House (such as music practice, rehearsals and will have signed out). FY begin the year in supervised Homework (often in the dining room supervised by a sixth former) and earn the right to work in their rooms as the House sees fit. Put anyone abusing Homework time into supervised study.
• On Saturdays and Sundays there is no Homework – Saturday night do the roll call at 9.30pm for FY and Remove and 9.45pm for Hundred. Look out for signs of drinking. Make sure you patrol the corridors regularly on a Saturday evening. Sunday evening (7.15 to 8.45pm) is occupat, quiet time, and everyone should be in the House, so register them as you go round. Some Houses ask the HOH and Deputy to go round the rooms to see if there are problems with any rooms and to check that they are tidy. See notices about Lower School after supper and Homework time rules.
• Lock up – once you have registered all pupils in House, put the intruder alarm on. Check that all outer doors are locked, windows secure, lights are out etc. Most Housems/Deputies say goodnight to the boarders. This is a key time – many boarders choose this time to talk.