Classroom Cleaning Checklist – End of Day, Week and Term

All 7 sheets

Every day 3

Art room clean-up checklist, Monday to Friday 10 jobs for the end of an art lesson, from Brushes washed, bristles up to Sink clear, with a box for each weekday.
Classroom cleaning checklist, end of day, Monday to Friday Room and Week of lines, then 12 jobs for the end of the day, each with a box to tick for every weekday.
Student clean-up checklist, my desk and my space For a pupil's desk: a Name line and 8 lines in a child's words, from My desk top is clear to My coat and bag are off the floor, with a box for each weekday.

Cleanliness walk-through 1

Classroom cleanliness checklist, area by area For a walk round the room: 12 areas, Floor to Door and entry, each with a Clean box, a Needs work box and room to write what to fix.

Once a week 1

Weekly classroom cleaning checklist, four weeks 10 once-a-week jobs, from Shelves and sills dusted to Lost and found emptied, with a box for each of four weeks.

End of term 1

End-of-term classroom cleaning checklist 16 jobs for the last days of a term or a school year, from Walls and boards cleared to Keys returned to the office, each with a Done box and a Who box.

Blank 1

Blank cleaning checklist, Monday to Friday, 12 lines Room and Week of lines and 12 empty lines for your own jobs, with a box for each weekday.

How it works

This classroom cleaning checklist is one room's week on one page, Letter or A4. Its 12 lines are a starting list: a room with no sink or no devices loses those lines, and a room with plants or a class pet gains one.

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One page for the week

Post the sheet by the door and tick each job as the class finishes it. A page lasts Monday to Friday, so an empty box on Thursday shows what was skipped. The pupil's sheet puts the jobs in a child's words for one desk, such as My chair is pushed in and My trash is in the can.

A classroom cleanliness checklist for a walk round the room

A cleaning checklist says what to do; a cleanliness checklist says how the room looks afterwards. The walk-through sheet is for whoever looks the room over, a teacher before a break or a pupil inspector, and what is written beside Needs work becomes the next day's jobs. Once-a-week jobs, such as dusting the shelves, have their own sheet.

Give each line to a pair of pupils and the cleaning classroom checklist doubles as a job list. The classroom jobs chart rotates the helpers.
Schools divide the work with their custodians differently. Remove any line that is not yours to do.

Questions and answers

What goes on a classroom cleaning checklist?

Jobs a class can finish in the last few minutes: wiping desks, clearing the floor, stacking chairs, erasing the board and putting supplies and books back. The teacher's own jobs come last, such as closing the windows and switching off lights and screens.

How do you keep a classroom clean?

Make the same few jobs a routine at the same time each day and let the pupils tick them off. A list names the jobs, so nobody waits to be told.

Is there an end of year classroom cleaning checklist?

Yes. The end-of-term sheet empties the room rather than tidying it: walls cleared, student work, plants and the lost and found sent home, devices stored and keys returned to the office. A Who box beside each of its 16 jobs shares them out.