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...

This seems a lot worse than at our school, through the years. I only had to deal with lost property when someone had a need for an item of clothes in emergency, and there never seemed much in the cupboard. But unnamed.
It has suddenly brought back a memory from 70 years or more ago. Iwas sent to a small private infant school, with everything labelled with Cash's woven labels, icluding my paint apron, grey with a strawberry print. Very pretty. One day it had vanished from my peg, so I told a teacher and she told me to keep my eyes open and see if I saw it anywhere. So I did, and I saw another girl with one like it. So I told the teacher and she called the girl and examined it, and the girl said she didn't have her name in it. It didn't have a label. What it had was a neat label-sized rectangle of neat holes where hand stitching had been removed. Had to be by an adult. But the teacher did not notice and I didn't get it back.
I've got the last of the labels. I'm saving them for the care home, to keep my knickers personal. I've learned that everywhere has a thief.

Yes. Yes it is.

We used to have the same problem at DD's school, it took up so much time! I'd definitely suggest teaming up with a name label company and then encourage the parents to label everything!

So weird. There are 20,751 primary schools in the UK, according to Gemini. I'm pretty sure more than one has an office staff member who has a nephew. I'm also positive that no parent gives a shit if office staff say that not labeling uniform is lazy.

I wonder what happened with @IncaDove

Id forgotten all about this.

In case anyone is interested the two weeks box thing is going really well. Had a charity shop run at half term and will be doing one shortly for Easter.

The lost property has gone right down once people realised it would be gone for ever...!