School work remainly at school at the end of year.

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I just found out that at the end of the academic year my daughter who is in Yr 1 won't be allowed to bring her exercise books and school work home for us to keep and cherish. And that she won't even get them at the end of her time at primary school..that they will be archived? Apparently it's some stupid safeguarding thing? But what about parental rights and my daughter's rights? Surely the work belongs to her and we should take ownership of it? My mum to this day cherishes work that I brought home from school. It's made me both sad and angry that the best that I'll get is a quick peek in them on the odd parent's evening and then it will just all collect dust in some archive box somewhere. Anyone else had this at their child's school?

No, you don't have "ownership of her work", it's not copyrighted research.
But safeguarding? Is that what they said!

We get a bag of books at the end of each year! Some, I cherish. Some, the recycling cherishes 😃No idea where I’m meant to store potentially 12 years of books x two children

My heart always sinks a little at the end of the year when another bag of books comes home…. I have about 15 now!!

Could the safeguarding thing be because there’s photos of other children in the books? For example, if children work in groups and their photo is taken it’s stuck in all of the children’s books.

Everyone has had it. It's completely normal. You might get it all back after an OFSTED.

Even then they will keep a selection of books from every class. So some people will get all their books and some people won't get any at all.

They definitely don't belong to you.

Things have changed since you were at schools but you can make precious memories in other ways I'm sure.

I can't imagine wanting to 'cherish' old jotters.

The school is going to run out of archive space very quickly.

When I worked in a primary school, nobody took exercise books home and at the end of Year 6 they were destroyed - maybe a sample of books was kept for inspection purposes, but certainly they didn't archive whole year groups of work.

There's no way a school could store all those books. I can barely store the maths and English books my small class have already filled this year. I'd press to find out more. As a teacher I sort of feel the other way sometimes - I hate to think of all that hard work going into books (both the kids' and mine) just for them to be binned at home!

God - I wish my dc school didn't send all the bloody books home for me to feel guilty about chucking away... they do enough stuff that I have to cherish at home, without having all their school output as well.
I'm probably an unnatural parent

I would love school to keep the books, then I wouldn't agonise over whether it's OK to put them into recycling.

We bundle them up and send them home after a year so families can keep or recycle them as they desire; saves on bin space at school!

this is hilarious. Honestly, in a few years you’ll be begging them to archive those books. My heart sinks when the plastic bags full of half finished worksheets come home.

I mean the school surely can't refuse to let my child keep her OWN work? Yep, they threw the 'safeguarding' tagline at me. I have no idea what they meant, not sure the teacher did either to be fair. I think it's ridiculous. I can see why they might want to keep her work so they can see her progress through her education but not even to let us have it when she leaves in Yr 6? I really want to know if this policy is a national thing so just something weird that my child's school is doing?

Safeguarding isn't a tagline, OP.

I’d have been delighted not to get the pile of books. Haven’t kept any

I’d imagine it’s because photos of children working are stuck in the to book, or there are comments regarding “I did this work with (insert friends name)” and that information can’t be shared due to some children being at risk.

I remember being confused that my mum kept a few of my school books, so I hadn’t planned on keeping DCs if they’re sent home from school. There is so much else they do that we have photos of or pictures they’ve drawn I can’t get worked up about school books.

I mean the school surely can't refuse to let my child keep her OWN work? They can. It's work she has done for her school and for her education not for making treasure or memories.

I'd like the opotion to bin it, after I've had a decent look at it though. But I'm sure I would want to keep the odd thing!

God - I wish my dc school didn't send all the bloody books home for me to feel guilty about chucking away... they do enough stuff that I have to cherish at home, without having all their school output as well.
I'm probably an unnatural parent

My exact reaction too! My R aged child already brings a lot of stuff home - I'm running out of space!

My school keeps it for a year for the next teacher to check progress then it goes home in the summer term the following year. I wish they went home sooner as my cupboard is currently full of all of the books from last year along with 90% of the current year! Different authorities might have different rules though.

I mean the school surely can't refuse to let my child keep her OWN work?
Oh, come on, op. Her work is a few wonky sentences written in a scruffy workbook.
It's not groundbreaking scientific research.
You could have photographed a selection for posterity anytime you liked.

Yes but when they no longer need it? Why should it collect dust in an archive box? And yes the odd piece of work would be nice to keep...

Oh in a year or two you'll be glad!! The sight of all of the years work coming out the school gate is a sinker.

Nope, it doesn't come home at any time for me to photograph. Walking into her classroom to take photos would definitely be a safeguarding issue!