To implement a new rule for lost property at primary?

[HamandCheeseSandwich]

In that, if it's uniform with no name on - goes to the PTA second hand uniform sale.

Bottles/bags/coats/anything else - all taken to charity shop every Friday.

If it has your name in, we will if course hold on to it...but only until half term. Then it's fair game.

I am in the office and have had enough of "have you seen Johnny's jumper?" And when asked if labelled it's 99% "no". Yes, love I've seen his jumper, it's so very different to the 450 others...

Good lord get a life.

They always do conveniently ignore that part just like the staff and volunteers ignore the labels and just shove everything outdoors on a table and say help yourselves it's why ds goes to school unbranded and in charity shop coats I picked a couple up for about £2 each the other day next size up should last him awhile and I label them (makes zero difference) but it cuts the cost down when the inevitably take legs

Think it depends on the school and the volume of stuff and the time staff actually have.

Once a week is a bit quick, if your kids are at after school club you might not be able to get in to look.

One of my kids' primary schools was bloody awful for stuff being nicked. Occasionally it would turn up again months or years later with the main name label cut out but writing still on e.g. the back of the badge. Once Dd's entire uniform plus her shoes and a pair of pumps were swiped during PE (they used to come home in PE kits). Head just used to shrug.

Well they can't be sold if they get lost, can they? It's easy enough to take the labels out if you want to sell on the item of clothing anyway.

DS has always had second hand uniform, some with names in. Makes no difference. Put a sticker over the top!

@HamandCheeseSandwich Have you been sacked yet? 😏

I coach a football team for 9 year olds and we got them all sponsored hoodies. We have 20 kids and after 1 hour of training it's like a bloody bazaar trying to figure out whose hoodie is whose. Just write your kids name on the fucking label!!!!

I couldn't work in a school

... not yet...

I wonder if her actual colleague is being spoken to right now...

@IncaDove - seen the HT yet?

Just to reply to all the “kids can’t be expected to look after their stuff” posters.
Once the 2-week grace period (and then off to second hand sale/bin) system was established, the amount of lost stuff goes down to about a Kallax box a week in a 2 form entry primary….

Amazing.

Maybe they need the incentive of lose it, or it gets chucked.

Thats a weak excuse, as if much uniform survives that long and of course if it gets lost there will be no reselling it at all...

But if thats the case, sew in a label that can be removed!

@HamandCheeseSandwich
part of it is also because suddenly people can use nice, big, readable name tags. So whoever picks up e.g. a jumper named H. Cheese has a good chance of knowing who that is - and it never makes its way to lost property , but it goes directly back to the owner

I labelled everything laborously. Very few items ever found their way back to my children.
There were the odd very good TAs who, if they came across named items of lost property, returned them to the child.
As a secondary school teacher, teaching hundreds of children a week, I always managed to pass named clothes back to the respective form tutor but that seemed an impossibility at my children's Primary school.

How does that work with the taxi kids? The ones who are not collected but parents or childminder?

How hard is it to get a biro and write the child's name on the label? As a teacher I was astounded by how often parents didn't seem to feel the loss of uniform jumpers and even coats and shoes that were left in Lost Property indefinitely. I don't know how often I had this conversation:
Parent: he's lost his jumper
Me: is his name in it?
Parent: no but it's blue Age 4
Me: like every other bloody jumper in my classroom then (I didn't actually say that).

Our school has a closet with lost items. If something is missing either the student or a parent can come search the closet. Twice a year it is emptied and donated to charity.

they don’t search items for names unless it’s a special item like a computer or an inhaler. Even with a name tag on a jumper, people have to retrieve their own items from the closet.

I like that parents are allowed to come in and search because some SN students aren’t able to complete the task themselves and are especially prone to missing items. I also appreciate that it takes the burden off staff. They never failed to help return a medical or accommodation device to my dd, but the countless water bottles and jackets she left around the school were my problem.

As she got older I was able to put AirTags on her critical items and she had a phone that would
alert her she was leaving them behind. That, plus maturity, actually helped her learn to keep track of things.

Btw... I haven't been fired yet or been summoned to the HT office.

I do wonder how Inca's day went though.

Has anyone been giving you the side eye?

No, because I wasn't even at the school today, because I don't work there on a Friday 😂😂😂

But PP was absolutely convinced she was right, based on exactly nothing... So weird..

I am wondering how it went down, I wish she'd come back and tell us!

You don't work there on Fridays? My kids TA doesn't work Fridays, is that you?

@Gogogo12345 in our case, if its clearly labelled, it will be returned to the child.
If not, parents will either have to go to school, or its gone.
Weirdly enough, since the policy has been implemented pretty much everything is suddenly clearly labelled….

There's a big lost property box with a lid, one of those garden plastic things, in the school yard. All lost property goes in to that for parents to look through themselves.
At the end of the term, the pta take it to sort and sell. The pta are good though, they will take photos of bits and share it through the WhatsApp groups with a final shout out to collect. If it's not collected, it goes.

I label stuff with a stamper and then donate to the school when outgrown. The problem is when the child who has now received the donated item, doesn't relabel it, loses it then my child comes back home with the sodding thing and refuses to take it back as embarrassed.