Where does your secondary school DC keep the books/equipment that are not in their bag

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So the exercise books that haven't been turned in but that they don't need for that day... Dc1 is quite organised but keeps his stuff the lounge where his school bag is meant to live:
Dc2 is about to start, much less organised, and I can already foresee frenzied searches for subject books next
Term and want to find a system that works

Am thinking of like a Really Useful box for their stuff and then they pack their school
Bag from it.

A repurposed IKEA toy storage cabinet - toys out, folders, books, paper, rulers, etc in! The drawers are all A4 size.

On a book shelf.

All over the house, mainly on the floor and in the way! And they still can’t find the ones they want!!

Sorry, they do have a box and a shelf, they just don’t know how to use it!!

My mum made me a cardboard box covered in wallpaper for mine. For my DC it was pointless, they were spread over the bedroom floor...

One of mine uses the drawers underneath her bed and the other uses part of an IKEA Kallax unit. We bought doors for the front of the unit.

With their clothes on the floordrobe...

Big Ikea box. Plastic wallets which hold the textbook and notebook if they need both.

Box in hall with laminated copy of timetable stuck on it. Identical box in bedroom.

On the floor usually. Not even always their own bedroom floor. Drives me mental but if lose it they deal with it (and the irate teacher)

Ours each had a two drawer strong plastic cabinet, one drawer for books one for PE stuff and empty bag. These lived in the hall area near the back door where they came in/out. No school books lived upstairs til 6th form to avoid last minute scrabbling.

Shelves in bedrooms was what my mum did and I will do
There's no way I want bags and boxes in my lounge!!!!
We all had cork pinboards with timetables on and it was our
Responsibility to pack out bags at night -
I don't recall anything getting lost as it was all kept "on the shelf"
As it were

As for floordrobes- my mother would never have tolerated that and neither would I, if their things are in a muddle, this will reflect their work also being in a muddle too

He has some organisers that he can keep on his shelves but they mostly live on the floor in his office 🙄.

Ikea trofast drawers in their bedrooms. School bags are taken into their bedroom everyday for homework/repacking. No school books anywhere else in the house.

Bookshelves in her room in theory.

In reality - a pile on the floor in front of her bookshelves.

Y10 now and so far only 1 detention since Y7 for bringing in the wrong book (two teachers for the same subject and each had a different book), simple mistake to make regardless where the book would have been.

DD brings her bag upstairs as soon as she is home and had something to eat. Same principle since Y3 when she started having proper bags instead of Infant bookbags.

Their desk. Or the windowsill next to it.

Dcs senior school dont send them home with any. All homework is done on an app or online and submitted.
The girls take a small handbag style bag. Ds only takes a bag if pe days. Much better than lugging books about

I have 4 dc so bought an ikea 4 drawer rack. It's got deep drawers and it's invaluable for getting rid of the school clutter. Anything school related goes in each of the dcs individual drawers and I get them to go through it and chuck out expired stuff in the holidays.

In theory, on her bookshelf.

In practice, on her bedroom floor.

In a plastic box under their desk. If they can't find a book I refer them to their box.

Scattered across the sofa, on the stairs, on the bedroom floor.......

Both my DSs keep/kept theirs in their bags all the time and took them all to school every day.
Madness imo but it worked for them!
Mind you they "lived" between 2 houses so it was easier and meant things never got left in the wrong house and then they just got used to it.

DD's school banned handbags, backpacks for all years.

What do they do with. material given. out in class? Dictionaries? How do they revise? Homework is a mix of workbooks and online submission, it very. much depends on the teacher.

Since Y10 DD also has text books for all subjects, they have to go back and forth and if bought by the parents they are heavily written in for GCSE revisions.

I don't have a secondary aged child yet but these answers are blowing my mind - do these things not all live at school in a desk/locker? That's what always happened when I was a kid.

On her bedroom floor. There are no lockers at our school and each class is in a different room so no personal desk space @MolliciousIntent . To be fair it was the same went I was at school.