Carrying A4 books around secondary school

[Griddy]

Hi all,
I just wondered if there is anyone who can suggest ideas on how to carry around a class-sized pile of books up and down stairs easily?
I’ve toyed with the idea of putting them in a washing up bowl/wham box to try and free up my hands/arms a bit. Has anyone got any amazing suggestions that works well for them? Any advice greatly appreciated!
Thanks :)

Why do you have to carry them around? Are these exercise books that the students should have in their bags??
If they are textbooks, why are you lugging them around anyway?

The students don’t have to carry them around. They don’t take them home as we have a longer school day therefore meaning a no-homework policy. It is their exercise books not textbooks. I end up carrying different piles of them to various classrooms as I have no set room with being a DT teacher.

One of those shopping trolleys on wheels?

Yes, that’s a good idea! I’ll have a look into that. Thank you :)

I have a wheely trolley. Robust enough to bump up and down stairs and it goes to festivals with me in the Summer!

Trolley on wheels is definitely the way forward - but only carry what you need to - store the rest in the department or faculty office.

Negotiate space to keep them in the rooms you use. If that's a lot of different rooms, try to get hold of a copy of the "free rooms" timetable (it's bound to exist - it's what they use when they have to relocate lessons because a space is being used for exams), and suggest some room swaps to give yourself greater consistency.

Alternatively, appoint a monitor in each class to collect them on the way to the lesson from a central point.

Some of us are all over the place. Never in the same room twice and the free room timetable isn't helpful as there are no free rooms until study leave. Nobody in our school has a classroom base and it is one of our biggest wellbeing issues tbh.

Thank you all I really appreciate all of the suggestions and have been trying some out already.
I can totally resonate with it being a well-being issue at your school Grammar teacher. It’s really hard not having your own little space/area/desk.
Anyway, I’m having a look into a wheely trolley next, we’ll see how that goes! :)

A colleague who is all over the place gets 2 students at pack up time to take the books to the next classroom they'll be in and has just arranged with that teacher to have an area where they can store them. The only time he has to carry books around then is if they are being marked.