week 3 no locker will I be 'that' parent if I phone to see if they will get one?

Be that parent. Ours don't have coathangers or lockers at all, have five floors to race up and down, and end up lugging 6 or 7 kilos of stuff around all day, including the tinies. In winter this load includes a wet coat. It's ridiculous.

Back in my day I had cookery, PE and violin lesson on same day, and I walked to school. It will be fine.

Don't they have anywhere to keep things?
My Dc's school has a cloakroom where PE bags are left, musical instruments are stored under the stage and cooking ingredients are stored in a larder

Our school won't let them have their lockers until everyone can have access to the lockers - some students loose keys, don't leave them unlocked so they have to sort this out. Nothing has been mentioned yet, it takes around 5-6 weeks! My daughter doesn't both, but they are allowed to leave their pe kits in their Head of Year's room, so if she can't cope ask if anything can be arranged.

Unfortunately, it can be a struggle with so much to carry - my daughter had her heavy bag, pe kit, cookery stuff and violin one day. Luckily another friend only had two things and she helped her in the morning.

I have to say our school admin are great.

Lockers are sorted out my the finance office, as is all trip monies. Stupid questions of all types are answered patiently by reception.

Just as well as DDs old tutor was utterly usless.

Mine never ever used the lockers. Nor were they permitted to hang coats on the backs of chairs . One more reason for not taking a coat to school.
Around Year8 of DC2 I gave up worrying about it .

I would also say at this time of year the Year 7's appear to bring in the largest bag of every piece of PE kit they have. By December they have got the idea of what they need and when and the bags do shrink! We are a Sports College and see this happen every year. Some of our year 7's also panic about which books to have so bring all subjects books everyday just in case! Never have a calculator on them though grrrr.

Speak to the Head of Year about lockers.

Our PE department do collect in valuables and lock them away every lesson from students like phones, watches etc so they are not left in changing rooms unsupervised.

Ds1 was given his locker 2nd day of term.

They are very close to his form room (deliberately allocated in this way)

He dumps his PE kit and any valuables in it, so twice a week for PE he dumps his phone (allowed at school but not to be used in the day) and his watch in his locker first thing before registration. Plus it is where they stash coats as they are not to be worn in school, nor taken into classrooms.

He has PE after break so collects his PE kit at break.

I can't understand how other schools don't get their arses in gear for this. Do they collect in valuables when they are doing PE or just take a chance that no-one will nick anything?

It seems to take weeks to sort out lockers!

DS has a big proper rucksack so that he isn't carrying it all lopsided on one shoulder. And it all fits in the rucksack.

Milk surely food science ingredients go into storage in the Food Tech room? Students shouldn't be carrying ingredients around all day so get DS to check. Fruit salad ingredients are probably not so important but I wouldn't like to be trying to use cream and butter which had been trailed around school for several hours!

I think we wore coats too, again in the 80s. Mainly to hide our uniform, possibly so as to enable us to buy fags and stuff.

I blame licensing laws. Or global warming

DS has such a thick blazer he is required to wear all day that I will be surprised if he needs a coat, perhaps if it gets sub zero. He says he is extremely hot in the blazer and hates it. He has identical PE kit to the OP and has to lump it around all day twice a week. It is very heavy. Tomorrow he has PE kit and a heavy plastic box containing ingredients to make a fruit salad, and a massive heavy science text book, plus exercise books, pencil case etc. It is a lot for a slight 11 yr old. His locker should be allocated "soon". Luckily he has school lunches, a packed lunch on top of that lot would just make it worse.

When did secondary school kids stop wearing coats? 90s? 2000s? We wore them at my school in the 80s.

My ds started school 1.5 weeks ago. He has to carry all his kit around too. But there are no lockers at his school.

He is coping fine. He's got a good sturdy backpack.

Y7 DD's school were rubbish at lockers and other 'admin' things and I strongly suspect they'd have significantly more time for big stuff if they had sorted out the little stuff common to 200+ children. $deity knows how many e-mails and parents at school-office they had, but I suspect it was quite a lot.

Yes ring up to ask. My son always uses his locker.

But to answer the original question! Yes ring up, and don't worry about being that parent. Teachers/admin staff need reminding too sometimes! Mostly our days are full of real issues for the kids so something small like a locker can slip through the cracks while we are making sure the big stuff doesn't.

I never know the answers to the admin type questions in school. Sometimes I think no-one knows!
I don't think pegs for coats is a good idea though. Those coats wouldn't last a day, nicked or knocked off the peg and walked over. Teenagers generally lack empathy. They can't help it, their brains can't think of others while so wrapped up in themselves and their hormones!

Poor communication between staff is hardly the childs fault Brian and I don't think it's unreasonable to expect lockers to be allocated early in the term if they are provided. As for hanging coats on the back of chairs, they're still being carried around all day from class to class along with everything else. Is it too much to ask for some hooks to be provided?

Oh they do at ours. My sons do too. Very stylish ones. Ponced

Secondary school pupils don't wear coats - I thought everybody knew that

Why do they need somewhere to store coats? They go on the backs of their chairs. We looked into lockers but we would have to build a whole building just to store them in as we have so many pupils. And why should any random teacher know when locker assignments will be made? I'm amazed at what people expect teachers to know off the tops of their heads. A classroom teacher/form tutor is at the bottom of the pile in terms of knowing information about what goes on in a school. When we're accused of fobbing people off or not giving a straight answer it's because nobody's told us and we don't get straight answers either!

I stopped worrying about being 'that' parent a long time. Teachers never seem to give the children a straight answer when they ask themselves and they don't like to keep asking. They should have access to a locker so I'd ask yourself on their behalf but as other posters have said, don't be surprised if they don't use it. We had a letter from the head of DS school saying that the children should all be wearing coats (in the winter). I had to point out to her that there aren't actually any facilities to hang or otherwise store a coat in the whole school - something else to carry round all day!