School Cleaning

End of term is within reach. When GCSEs and A levels are over it’ll calm down again, and you’ll be charged with cleaning the book cupboard or sorting out the past papers – again. It’s all behind the scenes cleaning, though, isn’t it?

Why not take a leaf out of the room makeover TV series’ book and inject your classroom with some inspiring, motivating life with a big clean and a change of style?

Involve your year 9s or your tutor group in working out the best seating order; ask them what would motivate them to work, or make their lessons in your classroom more enjoyable. Make it a pre-GCSE, cross-curricular project that uses a range of skills (English: writing to persuade/inform, art: craft and design, new technologies; maths: geometry, measure and number).

Give the class ownership of cleaning and updating their learning environment, and they’ll take the responsibility seriously. Give them a week of lessons to make the plans and presentations, then, if you’re brave enough, use the next week to get them involved in the classroom clean-up and transformation.

That said, ultimately you’ll be the one in your classroom day-in, day-out, so you need to be happy with it. Either take their ideas and merge them with your own, or include a selection of ideas they need to incorporate into their design brief/ plan of action.

Things you mind consider:

Wall-mounted book shelves instead of standing shelves that collect dust.

Have more than one litter bin, so that students and teacher can work together to keep the room clean and tidy each lesson.

Bring plants into the classroom to provide oxygen and a more natural environment.

Create a chalkboard/whiteboard rota for your tutor group, so each morning/afternoon they clean the board, which gives you a clean surface and gets rid of those awful streaks and smudges that make a room feel so mucky.

Get your books sorted out! Arrange them in order of topic, or year group, or colour (if you really want). If yours is a reading-based subject, make a reading corner which inspires students to just sit back and enjoy a book. Get some of the older students to write book reviews for the younger ones. You might consider painting or accessorising the reading area with green, which is a calming colour. Have a ‘reading corner’ team that will go in at the end of the day and clean the books up and make sure it’s ready for the next day.

Clean the walls! Students drag their bags, pens and pencils over the walls, and over time the walls start to look a right mess. Clean the walls with warm water and sponges, then have another team in charge of cleaning the wall marks when they appear.

Getting your students involved in keeping their learning environment clean will give them cleaning skills to use for life, and will encourage them to be responsible – which will mean the cleaners won’t have so much drudgery to do, leaving them to be able to other cleaning, which will mean your school a cleaner, more enjoyable place to work.

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