Do you have to pay for a locker at your secondary school?

[roisin]

At my secondary they have to pay a returnable deposit - about £3 I think for the lock/keys for their locker. Then they have to pay £1 'rent' per year. ie yr7s pay £8 to have a locker for 5 years, and get £3 deposit back at the end.

At ds1's school they have to pay £5 per year!

I am a Year 7 form tutor, and I have interviewed chatted to each of my new form, both from our own prep school and from outside. When I ask what they are looking forward to most about Year 7, they almost all say getting a locker.

On our induction day, we could easily spend half an hour getting acquainted with the lockers, and they do endless resorting and tidying in the first half-term. They put up photographs of their family and pets. It is really cute.

I do locker inspections once a week where I nag encourage them to stay organised.

At the end of the school year, I check that everything is emptied, and give them a disinfectant wipe for that final cleanup.

They are not allowed food in their lockers (just like my own kids aren't allowed to eat in the living room ).

I remember graduating from a desk to a locker in senior school; I also remember peeking into desks in each class to see who they belonged to (something that you can't do with lockers).

At the boys' primary they all have lockers from yr4 (free), though they don't have locks on! It's just a place to keep their stuff and makes the cloakrooms tidier. So they are well-used to managing them.

I see ds1's secondary's locker charges seem to be in line with other schools.