Lunchtime trouble

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I'd like to know what happens in good schools to ensure lunchtimes are fun and safe, and how issues are managed. My DS is over sensitive and I'm working on him developing a thicker skin but the reality is the lunchtime staff don't deal with issues properly and obviously the teachers really don't want to have to deal with things that happened at lunchtime every day...but the children are left feeling a sense of unresolved injustice and don't bother reporting behaviour that bothers them but they know it won't be dealt with.
Small school, committed head teacher but less emphasis on behaviour. I want to come up with solutions rather than just moaning. What equipment do you have out etc?

Gosh! Sounds like shouting adults on this thread. Where I am a Governor we do train our midday supervisors and half of them are TAs too. The school is well led and the Deputy and Head are available at lunchtime if need be. In my previous school the Head was out on the playground every day.

A good school does not tolerate supervisors chatting and insists on the same rules and sanctions that are in the Behaviour Policy, fairly interpreted. Playtime is observed from time to time and any poor supervision is dealt with by training and advice. Supervisors are creative and lots of play ideas are instigated. There is no need for poor supervision but SLT has to care, train and monitor!

I 100 percent agree I work as a midday and it’s hard work all the fist aiders are teachers and teaching assistants so we have to go to them if a child gets hurt. I was on my own watching yr one and 2 today 2 different playgrounds so it was back and forth also I am 6 and a hafe mouths pregnant not easy if a kid falls over I have to use one arm to pick them up. and when we do take kids in the fist aiders look at us like we ask them to lick dog poo off the floor. Also a teacher assistant was ask to come out with me today she said she could do 10 minutes but left after 10 seconds I know why one of the teacher assistant birthdays so someone brought in a cake that is more important then dealing and helping with the safe gardening the children and what’s worst that teacher was ment to come out but never did. I suffer with disprxia so struggle to open and close the yr 1 and 2 toilets I ask the teacher who was ment to come outside to close them for me and explained why I agree to watch her class while she did this she went and did it but then came back threw her class room door so I through she was back in class with her kids I heard the black gate makeing a sound and it’s ment to be closed so I went to close it and there she is locking the outside toilets she went out threw a different class door then was like who was watching my class if I get in trouble for this I will go mad after all I have been threw today I also had to take a mouth off all of September because I kept having falls at the start and was not feeling well today

If this had been the other way around and it was a midday assistant birthday and we were like wait a moment while I give someone cake we would all get in trouble. I feel as a midday we are looked down on I get paid not even 300 odd a mouth while teachers and teaching assistants get way more plus the fist aid thing is voluntary so I don’t get why they volunteer if they don’t want to do it