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Yard duty roster template

A blank weekly duty grid plus a term fairness tally. Print it, or use your browser's “Save as PDF”. Rename the zones and breaks to match your school, and keep the tally up to date, because fairness that is not counted is luck. How to use it well is covered in the yard duty roster guide.

Weekly duty roster

Week beginning: ______________________

Break / ZoneMondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFriday
Before schoolZone A
Zone B
Zone C
RecessZone A
Zone B
Zone C
Lunch · eatingZone A
Zone B
Zone C
Lunch · playZone A
Zone B
Zone C
After schoolZone A
Zone B
Zone C

Term fairness tally

One row per staff member. Each week, write the number of duties actually done, including swaps and absence cover, which is where rosters quietly drift from reality. Part-time staff carry a pro-rata share on the days they attend.

Staff memberW1W2W3W4W5W6W7W8W9W10Total

Before you fill it in

  • Rename zones to your real areas (oval, sandpit, bus gate, courts) and add rows if you supervise more than three zones per break.
  • Write down fixed recurring duties and exemptions. An unwritten rule is not a roster rule.
  • Map each outdoor zone to an indoor wet-day post now, not at 12:40 when the rain starts.
  • When someone is absent, reassign their duty deliberately and count it in the tally.

When the template stops being enough

Bell Path keeps this tally for you, all term, automatically.

A paper tally solves week one. Bell Path generates the roster from your real bell times and zones, keeps a year-to-date fairness count per person, converts to a wet-day plan in one step, and reassigns an absent teacher's duties on the daily cover screen.

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