to expect school to check for a name before adding a garment to the lost property mountain?

[lisbey]

I am a stickler for rules and I have never ever sent anything of my DSs' to school without a name in it. All their uniform is properly labeled with embroidered name tapes and anything they announce last minute they need to take in will have a name hastily added in permanent marker.

Whenever something is missing, I will politely enquire at the office and am pointed towards a huge pile of dirty clothes to rummage through.

So why do a need to put the name tapes in, if no-one has a look to see if the item is named before adding it to the mountain?

[Lonnie]

So you can find it when you go through the as you said yourself MOUNTAIN of clothes

YABU to expect the school to deliver back every piece of lost school property

[Tiredmumno1]

Dont be daft lonnie, it would take seconds to check.

op maybe you need to bring it up with the school. it would take more time to walk to the lost property box and put it in, than it would to have a quick look

[OhYesIShipThat]

Lost property = lost stuff, not lost unnamed stuff, at least at our school.

Here there are usually dozens of jumpers and cardis left outside after a typical early summer lunchbreak - if someone had to go round hand returning them all to the right classrooms it would take ages. So they all get dumped in lost property and the sensible parents who put name tapes in reap the benefits when they're wading through 30 nearly identical smelly green sweatshirts trying to find the right one. That's what the name tapes are for, for the owner to read, not the valet office staff.

[hocuspontas]

After lunch there isn't enough hours in the day to find out each child's class and return them. Lunchtime staff get paid until the end of lunch. By returning 'unknown' named items to Lost Property means they are centralised and not taken to wrong classrooms or just left on fences!

[GypsyMoth]

Which part of 'the school' do you think should be doing this task then ??

[roomonthebroom]

YABU - teach your child to look after their own property rather than expect someone else to sort it out for them. Yes, sewing name tags on is a pain, but surely the point is that your child is able to identify their own stuff when changing for PE etc and if they are careless enough to lose stuff, so that you can find it in lost property.

It's not the job of the staff to run around the school after your kids. They have way too much to do as it is.

[primarymum]

Sorry, but the only person with a responsibility to sort out property is the owner, if they can't be bothered/aren't capable of looking after it in the first place, then they need to go find it, not have it personally delivered to them, how will they ever learn to take responsibility for their own things? ( although I might perhaps give Reception children a helping hand for the first couple of terms

[lisbey]

It is a small school. The office staff know which class the children are in. Surely items could go in the teacher's pigeon hole, to be returned to the classroom next time someone's going/a child appears with an errand...

[SoupDragon]

Lost Property is mainly collected in bulk from the school field/Playground or picked up by the cleaning staff so they can hooker the floor. Exactly who should have the responsibility of identifying the correct child from the name and returning each and every item to the correct peg?

Your child lost the item, you or he should search for it in the mountain.

having said that, DSs new secondary has an efficient lost property system Whereby items are delivered to the lost property room, a slip is sent to the boy's form tutor who fives it to the boy so he can go and claim it from the lost property room. Rather nice but then again it is a private school.

[roomonthebroom]

Possibly lisbey, but it's not teaching your child the responsibility of looking after their own things, if someone always picks up the pieces for them. As a teacher, dropping it in the lost property box at the end of the day is much easier, and less time consuming, than hunting a child down or putting it in another teacher's pigeon hole.

[SoupDragon]

Wheeee is the incentive to take responsibility for your possessions if someone just delivers it back to you??

"oh, I won't bother going back to pick up my jumper from the climbing frame, someone will bring it back to me."

I mean, really, who'd bother picking up after themselves??

[scottishmummy]

you lost it you got to look through the stink bundle.thats the way it is.at nursery lost items are bundled in a big ole box.you lost something you got to rummage

school collect items,store/bundle them.parental responsibility to root through for lost items

hardly best use of staff time to faff about with lost property

[lucykate]

i would hope that the teacher and ta were too busy teaching to spend time sorting lost property. as a parent, i have no problem nipping in to the lost property box if something has gone astray.

[SE13Mummy]

If, as a teacher, I come across an obviously labelled item of clothing that has been discarded by its owner I will usually pick it up and send a child to take it to the owner's class. However, I do not search for labels nor try to decipher initials and so most things go straight into lost property.

Children need to learn to look after things. If they have to search through the lost propery stash at lunchtime maybe it'll help them remember to look after things instead.

The idea that lost items could be put into our pigeon hole is very, very funny; I can almost fit a stapler and a whistle in mine.

[OrmRenewed]

My DC are as vague as they come but they have never lost anything long enough to get into lost prop.

[SE13Mummy]

Meant to say, at my last school my Y6s would return labelled items from the lost property rack to their owners. Unlabelled things were hung up (by the Y6s) on a proper clothing display rail ready to be claimed. Any uniform items that were unlabelled and unclaimed at the end of the year were sold (by Y6) to raise funds towards the school journey.

[clam]

My class are desperate to set off on a tour of the school after lunch play, delivering various items of clothing they've found. In my lesson time. I'm afraid I say no.

[Runoutofideas]

I'm worried about SoupDragon's cleaners being so busy "hooker"ing the floor!

[clam]

Yeah, but the stuff isn't technically lost until the end of lunch. And the whole appeal of the job is to try to get your teacher to let you go in lesson time. But I'm mean, me.

[ProfessorLaytonIsMyLoveSlave]

I agree that it's part of teaching the children to take responsibility for their own stuff, which you don't get if your carelessly discarded item is returned to your desk neatly folded.

Mind you, DS's jumper didn't even make it to the lost property mountain. I did suggest that we could just change his name to Daisy Mayhew and then help ourselves to one of the many jumpers that was there, but he wasn't having any of it...

[Goblinchild]

'I meant in their lunchbreaks Clam - not in lesson time '

We have rules about unsupervised children yomping around school at lunch and break times.
They should be outside, getting in that vitamin D.
Label it so it can be found again by the lazy so and so who lost it.
Amazes me to see parents rushing around locating property, lunch boxes and such whilst their Y6 boys play football.
I never did.

[Goblinchild]

'However, it can be someone's routine job every Thursday lunch or whatever, to rummage through the lost property and see what can be reunited with the owner.'

I'll put it to the PTA, we can have a parent rota. Give those SAHMs something to do...