When I was in school, we had large classes (at least 40) and several recesses per day. There was morning recess where we played organized games. Then there was lunch recess where we spent part of the time eating (or going home for lunch) and the remainder of the time playing games which we organized ourselves witha teacher watching so we didn’t kill each other. Then there was afternoon recess.
Nobody got out of line in, or out, of class. There was a little boy/girl teasing, but that was it.
Same here at elementary school. On rainy or snowy days recess was in the assembly room, otherwise it was coats and hats and outside you go. Oh, and we didn’t have school buses, we walked. Buses were for special field trips.