💬 End of Year Cleaning Responsibilities
All Woodland's Team Members need to complete the following list of cleaning duties before 1:00pm on the last day of this year. This year by 1:00pm, Friday 24th December.
These duties consist of cleaning in your own room and in shared areas (staff room, laundry, storerooms, outdoors and adult bathrooms.)
🧼 Room Cleaning
- All furniture in the room including tables, chairs, dramatic play furniture, soft large blocks needs to be scrubbed clean.
- All equipment in the rooms needs to be disinfected, sorted/complete into correct containers or groups and stored on shelves.
- All carpets vacuumed
- All sinks scrubbed clean
- Cupboards under the sink cleaned and organised
- Lockers cleaned and labels removed in readiness for a new group of children
- Tops of lockers cleared completely
- Collage trolleys cleaned and organised in preparation for next year
- Paint and glue pots and brushes washed thoroughly in hot water and stored in the laundry in preparation for next year in a labelled tray
- All dough is thrown out
- Window ledges and behind lockers cleaned
- Items from walls removed unless it is a birthday display, aboriginal display or programming display
- Wall cleaned of any marks
- Easels cleaned completely of all paint
- Windows cleaned inside and outside in the hallways
📦 Storage Rooms Between Classrooms
- Storage rooms between rooms cleaned completely
- Sheets are stored neatly in bags. (name tags will need to be removed from the bags in preparation for a new group) Create new tags
- Any excess sheets are folded neatly and stored
- Label the selves in the storerooms with the names of what is to be stored in that spot eg. Sheets, puzzles, manipulative etc
- Mattresses stacked neatly (not standing on end but lying one on top of the other please)
- All benches cleaned and cleared of all items
🚽 Children’s Bathrooms/Toilets
- Toilets cleaned with toilet cleaner and disinfected
- Changing mats disinfected
- Cupboards and shelves disinfected and ordered with labels on shelves for various items
- Sinks scrubbed clean
- Walls disinfected
- Doors disinfected
- Restocked for next year
- Disinfectant bottles refilled for next year
👩🏫👨🏫 Staffroom
- Clean all furniture
- Empty and defrost fridges
- Ensure all lockers are emptied and wipe clean
- Check and organise all cupboards
- Clean walls
- Clean windows
- Clean Microwave
- Clean coffee maker
- Clean sinks
- Restock everything ready for next year – disinfectant, paper towel , hand sanitizer hand wash, detergent, and empty bins
🗑 Laundry
- Clean sinks including the mop sink
- Tidy cupboards
- Restock flour, salt, cornflour, washing powder
- Wipeout with disinfectant the washing machine and dryer and switch off at the wall
- Wash floors
- Nappy storeroom and adult toilets
- Clean, organise, disinfect, restock and tidy hallways
- All work (except the Indigenous and multicultural wall facing the kitchen) and the map of Australia with all the photos in it, can be removed from the hallway walls
- All walls in the passageway cleaned
- All window ledges cleaned
- The children’s tables and benches in the piazza to be disinfected.
- The face washers and containers for the face washers to be sorted, folded and prepared for next year.
- Passageway mopped
🏡 Outdoor Areas
- All verandahs swept and hosed and plants watered
- All equipment sorted into baskets
- Water play equipment in water play troughs
- Sandpits covered
- Tanbark raked and stepping stones swept
- Any chalk on cubby or walls removed every one to remember
- All bins emptied – cardboard and boxes in cardboard bin and all other rubbish in other bins
- Hats and shoe lockers to be wiped out and old labels removed in preparation for next year’s new children