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.

How did you do your homework? I brought my books home 30 years ago.

My child has a locker, but books come home.

If they don't, they can't look anything up until next in school.

on their desk in their room or in their locker at school.

they don't have their own desk at school.
they don't even have classesat dc school.
their teachers have their fixed rooms and pupils move around to attend lessons.

I only had one or two subjects homework each day and I just bought those books home with me. We had 9 40min lessons a day, if we'd had to carry everything for each class to and from every day we'd have been crippled.

Both boys use 2 leather ottomans on the lounge.

The school has lockers, but I don't know how well they’re used. After forking out for several years for keys for all 3 dc at various points, then twigging that all their stuff was still at home, it transpired that it was more convenient to them to have their school stuff on/in/around(!) their desks at home and just take in what was needed every day, so that’s what they, and most of their friends seem to do.

I have a vague recollection of the lockers not being available anyway during the Covid years, to cut down on unnecessary to-ing and fro-ing/gathering in the school and to accommodate a one-way system.

My kids have a storage box in their bedrooms for this.
It was suggested by DS1 's Occupational Therapist when he was in y6. I think it's a really good idea.

My dd has this sort of thing in her bedroom
www.amazon.co.uk/Organiser-KXF-Sections-Magazine-Dividers/dp/B07RRWQKWJ/ref=sr_1_7?keywords=Plastic%2BFile%2BHolder&qid=1653291461&sr=8-7&th=1

Shelving unit by the front door. Bags get chucked onto their own shelves when they walk through the door, requires no effort from them so works for us

Plastic box on a shelf in his bedroom, with the timetable stuck to the top.
In reality, apart from PE kit, he has decided its easier to lug everything on the bus twice a day and never unpack the bag.....

@MolliciousIntent my DC have 4 double lessons a day. Some schools use fortnightly timetables so longer lessons, less frequently.

We just have different IKEA things. KS3 DS has an IKEA Kallax with cupboard insert. Y10 DD has the bottom shelf of her Trofast. It's deep enough for her lever arch files. Before these we had an old Billy bookcase with IKEA cardboard boxes that fitted.

Our homework system is super simple for autistic DS. He has one plastic zippy folder for homework to do, and another for homework completed. Mostly it's just these that come home except for French. We occasionally go through and stick in completed homework when a book comes home. Since covid books have stayed in school a lot more.

We have a box file/ document holder type thing with an open top that stands up and a matching lidded box - I think we got them from WHSmith- and bag gets packed from there. They live on a cabinet in the kitchen. If DH or I find any stay papers or books lying around, they go straight into the boxes.

Dc have a desk in their bedrooms, but both prefer their box to be downstairs - they keep their schoolbags downstairs too.

It works well for us - dc1 is untidy, and struggles to get organised, so copes much better with a definite system.

I also put washed PE kit straight back into the PE bag on the back of the door, rather than get it mixed up in the general pile of clothes for putting away - far too many mornings scrabbling around looking for a single black football sock otherwise!

Plastic box here too, all books/handouts/revision guides go into it and she packs her bag from it each night for the following morning. She does carry a LOT of her books around with her all the time, all three Science books for example - her backpack weighs a ton!

She doesn't have a locker at school any more, said she didn't use it - I wish she'd kept it as it would have been handy to leave some things in, having said that her form tutor has mentioned to me before that she considers DD to be well organised and always has the right stuff with her. A combination of everything kept in one place (the box) and reminders from us! Her school are very strict on having the right books/equipment with you when you should, so there is also the motivation of avoiding a pile of behaviour points leading to a detention.

I have no idea 😳
sometimes they’re on the dining table in a neat pile and I presume the rest of the time they’re in their bedrooms.
I honestly expect them to keep track of their own stuff now and have never had any involvement - If they had a problem they’d ask and I’d help them come up with a solution though.

I always had a desk with drawers in my bedroom (I had one of those high sleeper beds with a desk and chair underneath) and put my books in the drawers.

On the floor. Or any available surface. All over the hallway / sitting room / kitchen/ bedrooms. Then they screech that someone has moved / lost their stuff that they left lying around. Drives me absolutely potty, especially as they have specified places in the hallway (first dumping ground when they come in) & their bedrooms to put their belongings to avoid things becoming "lost". Maddening.

Although to answer the question they have boxes in the hallway where I put the things they leave on the floor.

My kids had a desk in their rooms where school books etc live.

One book for each subject and they are all in his school bag. Weighs a ton!

My teens have drawers in their bed bases so one is allocated for school books and stuff.
Pre COVID boys had lockers so the only books they'd bring home is the ones they had homework for.
Post COVID lockers have not been re-instated so everything back in bed drawers

Desk in her bedroom with a set of ikea cubby bookshelves right next to it. A bunch still ends up on the bedroom floor, but there is a place for it, including the backpack.

This is what happened to my dc. Hence all the stuff strewn at home

Usually his bedroom floor tbh.