Ensuring What Goes To School Comes Home
Children are notorious for losing things at school, no matter what their age.
Many a stray lunchbox or pencil case has turned up in the wrong backpack, or in some cases not at all.
Help your child keep a better track of their personal items using the following suggestions - and see more things make their way back home again! It's All in the List Keep a list in the hallway of what things your child needs to pack each morning or for each day's activities, and ensure they check if off every day before they leave for school.
When they return home, they can use the same list to confirm whether everything has come back, and make a note to follow up if items are missing.
Get to Know Lost Property It can be useful for children and their families to get familiar with the school systems for dealing with lost items.
Ensure that if the worst happens, your child knows where to look and which teacher to talk to.
The school will appreciate it too! Label Everything Labels as many items of clothing, lunchboxes, drink bottles and stationery items as you can, so that if something goes missing or is the same make or brand as another child's, they can still be easily identified.
Use colourful tags and materials, or even your child's favourite colour or character, so that objects are easy to spot.
Learn Search Skills Losing things is unfortunately a common life experience, and teaching children how to find lost items can be a valuable skill in itself.
Help them think about what something might look like if it was hidden, or how to retrace their steps to consider places where it might have been left.
Create Reward Systems One method that can be helpful for particularly forgetful children is to reward them when they've remembered to bring something home for a few days in a row.
Record their actions on a chart with stickers, praise their efforts, and consider what type of reward might be appropriate in marking their success.
Losing things is a part of everyday life, but with the right organisational systems in place at home and at school, you'll have created a safety net for your child to find items again.
With a motivated attitude and search skills at hand, they'll eventually be able to search for lost property on their own, ensuring more of their items are regularly 'found' and put back where they belong.
You'll find that this will also save you money by reducing the number of items needing to be replaced throughout the year!
Many a stray lunchbox or pencil case has turned up in the wrong backpack, or in some cases not at all.
Help your child keep a better track of their personal items using the following suggestions - and see more things make their way back home again! It's All in the List Keep a list in the hallway of what things your child needs to pack each morning or for each day's activities, and ensure they check if off every day before they leave for school.
When they return home, they can use the same list to confirm whether everything has come back, and make a note to follow up if items are missing.
Get to Know Lost Property It can be useful for children and their families to get familiar with the school systems for dealing with lost items.
Ensure that if the worst happens, your child knows where to look and which teacher to talk to.
The school will appreciate it too! Label Everything Labels as many items of clothing, lunchboxes, drink bottles and stationery items as you can, so that if something goes missing or is the same make or brand as another child's, they can still be easily identified.
Use colourful tags and materials, or even your child's favourite colour or character, so that objects are easy to spot.
Learn Search Skills Losing things is unfortunately a common life experience, and teaching children how to find lost items can be a valuable skill in itself.
Help them think about what something might look like if it was hidden, or how to retrace their steps to consider places where it might have been left.
Create Reward Systems One method that can be helpful for particularly forgetful children is to reward them when they've remembered to bring something home for a few days in a row.
Record their actions on a chart with stickers, praise their efforts, and consider what type of reward might be appropriate in marking their success.
Losing things is a part of everyday life, but with the right organisational systems in place at home and at school, you'll have created a safety net for your child to find items again.
With a motivated attitude and search skills at hand, they'll eventually be able to search for lost property on their own, ensuring more of their items are regularly 'found' and put back where they belong.
You'll find that this will also save you money by reducing the number of items needing to be replaced throughout the year!
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