secondary school with no locker facilities

Pretty much except you didn't bring a coat. I had one of those mac in sac type coats but just had to suck it up in winter. I think the music teachers used to let people store instruments in the music department.

Wow I had no idea this was a thing. What on earth do the kids do if they have an instrument, PE kit, wet coat etc. Drag it around with them all day?

We had lockers but you would often be assigned one at the other end of the school from your form room which was a bit useless. We also had that stupid rule about coats having to be stored in bags making it impossible to takes winter coat to school

If DS has SEN, have you asked if there is a specific additional provision he can access? I know my friend's child (who has ASD) is able to use a special room to store his coat/belongings rather than have to join in the hustle around lockers.

Ds’s school has lockers. I paid for one last year but haven’t bothered this year as he just lugs everything around with him anyway as he can’t be bothered to walk from one end of the school to another building to get to his locker

No lockers? How bloody archaic. I’m glad my dd goes to a sensible well prepared school that has somewhere she can store her PE kit etc all week without having to lug it around all day. Not good for growing bones either.

This is the first time I have E ER heard if senior schools without lockers. I am quite surprised by it.

We have a very small supply of lockers at my school. The vast majority of kids carry their stuff around with them and leave their bags in form rooms at lunchtime.

A few kids, generally those with organisational issues or physical issues with carrying big bags, have lockers based in the learning support department. They're based down there so the support staff can make sure the kids who need help get that help, whether it is in deciding which books they need for the rest of the day or help carrying their PE kit to the changing rooms. We have approx 30 lockers in a school of about 1500 pupils. There just isn't space for any more.

No lockers at my kids' secondary. As others have said it seems to work fine (kids don't have many books anyway ) and there isn't time between classes to go to lockers anyway.

No lockers in DD’s secondary. It works fine. Kids only bring what they need and they get used to lugging around PE kits. There no time in the schedule to use lockers between class anyway.

There are no lockers at ds1's school. Ds1 thinks this is dreadful.

There were lockers when I was at secondary but tbh they were impractical to use. There was no time to go to them between lessons. Depending on where your previous lesson/ locker/ next lesson was, there was very rarely time to go to the during break. And at dinner time we were not allowed in the areas where the lockers were. Basically you could access them in the 10 minutes before registration and for about 10 minutes after the final bell at the end of the day, which was of use to no one.

Presumably this explains why one local school has them in blazers and no coats ..!

I’ve only ever been to one school with lockers and no one ever used them. £5 deposit for a lock but they just don’t need them. Kids can leave pe kits in form rooms or just take them with. I didn’t have them and I certainly don’t remember it being a problem, even when I was on the school sports teams and did GCSE art. The school always provided text books and they stayed in class. Sometimes you needed exercise books for homework and I would forget to bring them back so avoided taking them.
I only remember a brief moment when I played the trumpet, did my sports and had art and I would leave my trumpet in the music dept or drop everything with my tutor until needed. This was about 10 years ago.
But I really had to think about remembering this, it really wasn’t a big deal.

Dds school have just introduced lockers. Bloody nightmare. Half of them randomly lock. The kids shove their sandwiches etc in their blazer pockets because they can't be bothered to go back to their lockers to get them at break. They have been given flimsy crappy book bag style bags to use for their school books during the school day that keep splitting. Oh and the school want us to pay £20 a year for them. It has not been a success.

My dd (Y7) has one but plenty of others locally don't have them.

Our secondary doesn’t have lockers but instruments can be left in the instrument store and cookery stuff in the cookery room at the start of the day.

We certainly weren't allowed to take coats around the school!!

When I was at secondary (02-07) we didn't have lockers, we used back packs/ruck sacks for our text books, then if we wanted we could take our pe kit in a separate bag and leave it in our form room until needed. But apart from that it was pretty hassle free, alot us used the football boot bags - could fit a few books in, planner, pencil case, 20 tabs, bits and pieces. Never had a need for a locker.

The secondary I taught at they weren't allowed to take rucksacks around with them - bulky in the corridor/could knock other students and by messy I meant in the way in the classroom - it was a school rule they had to be in cloackrooms/lockers hence my question!

Text books- a mix of supplied books and books they've bought.

I'm gonna do the old "Back in my day ..." No lockers when I was at secondary school, no computers or tablets either. We needed to have our coats with us, we had to walk round the school campus between lessons and it was quite spread out. And we carried all folders and textbooks with us from lesson to lesson. Then there was also the PE kit once a week .... And we survived

We had to buy text books. State school.
Even more annoying when they got stolen.

Yes rucksack, not messy no (why?). Heavy but not impossible. In a big school your locker might be 10 mins walk away anyway.

Dd doesn't have a locker, tbh it's not been an issue. She rarely takes a coat and when she played an instrument it could be put in the music room first thing. She's a bit laden on PE day but copes just fine

Hahahaha at GCSE text books!!! I had enough for one between two and needed them for several classes. What school supplies text books today?