please can any advise me on how to help ds14 organise his homework - school starting back here next week

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he is very reluctant to study and has, for the past 2 years, thrown all his work into one drawer, any attempt to get organised failed. I bought him an ikea desk for his room, but what else can I don to help him organise his homework so its not thrown into a single drawer? He is naturally forgetful/sloppy and needs to pull his socks up and get a bit more organised before school gets back and he gets deluged with homework

any suggestions would be appreciated(at least by me )

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Folders with dividers so a section for work from the subject and a section for set homework and a section for complete homework, or one of those wallets that sort of concertina out into various sections.

DD1 and DS both use wall planners/calendar for big projects where they put the deadline and also the date they would like to be finished by.

Both also have a wall chart type thing they made which lists the subject, the homework, the deadline and if its complete, so 4 columns. They print one out each week and write homework on it. You can also set reminders on phones/laptops which I know they do with some subjects.

This is their own doing as they seem to be naturally organised/studious without me so i guess its what works for them, I don't know if it will work for your son. He would need to make sure he filled it out and kept on top of it.

I think the wall chart rubyfakenails suggests is a great idea.

I had 3 velcro strips on the freezer (one for each dc) I made square laminated tokens/tickets (like a PECS symbol) about 1 square inch in size which had the names of all their subjects. These were kept in a bowl on top of the freezer. When a homework was set the appropriate subject symbol was stuck to the appropriate dc's strip. Once the homework was done the token went back in the bowl. it was an easy visual reminder of what was outstanding.

It looked a bit like [[http://209.197.91.184/visualsupport/makingpecs.html
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Does he have a home school diary? If not could you get him one? Funky stationery helps with girls ...

eatyourveg, thanks but to be honest thats a bit complicated for me, I dont think I could make that

he has a diary but hardly opens it, I want something in his room that is there in front of him and he cant miss it

rubys idea sounds good, does anyone know where I could buy a wall planner?

small whiteboard?Rymans do them quite cheaply.

Is he starting year 10, i.e. starting GCSE coursework?
They generally start to grow up a bit and realise it "really" counts, together with dropping some of the sujects they don't like. The volume of work, especially mounting up at the end of the year can hurt, though.
If you have a good school who communicate with you make sure you're on parentmail so you know what's going on and when the modular exams/field trips/deadlines are if he's the kind to lose letters. If the school isn't good at that have a moan to them.
Staples do academic-year wall planners. A folder for each subject can work well, too. some schools will hand out timelines for each suject and what's expected when to keep at the front and tick things off.
Good luck

thanks to be honest I feel they arent gppd at comminicating, its a very big school

we are in Scotland, he's going into S3 here, starting int 2 coursework, probably the same as yr 10 by the sounds of it

I want him to do well, but dont we all

actually, maybe this is something I should ask the school for advice on

I think the velcro strip on the freezer sounds great .

And actually would be quite simple to do .

You can buy velcro dots with sticky backs .

will try to see if I could make that, just sounds a bit tricky to me