Parents of children in primary school...........Do you get given their books and work to keep?

[RTKangaMummy]

Parents of children in primary school

Do you get given their books and work to keep?

I realise that some of you would only throw the stuff from school away

BUT what about the ones who would want to keep some of it for the future to look back at and compare how your child has improved with stories or pictures etc.

Do any of you have the option to keep work from school?

If so, has it been given to you at the end of each year or at the end of primary?

Did you have to ask for it or was it just given to you {or your child}?

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'mildly'.

Our primary has always sent it home at the end of the year.

If I kept all the stuff belonging to my 3 there wouldn't be room in the house for us. I look through it all, keep the best bits and ditch the rest when they've forgotten about it.

yes, I think it's wrong to throw stuff away en masse - parents have the right to review what their children have done, and archive what they want IMO. We asked the parents to vote on it at my last school and they overwhelmingly asked for the lot to go home.

Just tell them to hand the stuff over!

DH is going to ask cos I don't want to end up in tears

Then DS and I can go in to the meeting.

Also I don't want DS to realise that all of his work has just been thrown away without any consideration

IMHO it is sort of showing a lack of respect for all their hard work

ALL I want is the chance to read his stories etc and choose what I want to keep.

I am clutching at straws in thinking that there may be books etc from his earlier years

DH asked before DS and I got there

He was met at the door by DS teacher and he asked and then the Head arrived

And was told that they KEEP ALL the books.

Appartently a school {in London} was threatened with legal action because the child was found to have dyslexia and the parents felt the school should have done something to help. And so this is why the school keep all the books

I do NOT get this at all

BUT at least they have not been thrown away

This school is deffo NOT DS school

Sometimes teachers like to keep the books to use for evidence for prof. development or use as evidence for inspections.

Also some schools have a policy of not sending books home. Normally books get sent home at the end of the year, sometimes teachers send books home at the end of each term.