Best School Bags for Dyspraxia with Multiple Compartments

[zeromark]

School bags….. after your advice please!
My son is transitioning to secondary school and due to dyspraxia has difficulties with organisation of his belongings.
Obviously he will have several lessons to move between at secondary and I was wondering if there are school bags with several compartments (say 4) so we can split out subjects (rather just a large compartment with pockets). I’ve considered separate folders for each lesson as well, but wonder if any of you have any tried/tested ideas/bag recommendations.
Thank you

 

[sog1985]

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[yuliia]

My kids leave their bags in their lockers and only take stationery to lessons!
What will he put in 4 compartments?

 

[christianinchrist]

Jenny Godwin different lesson items to help him stay organised. By being presorted it will help reduce anxiety and so stress/worry.

 

[yuliia]

@christianinchrist I just don't understand what you want to sort? They put pens in a blazer pocket and leave the bags in their locker. Only added kit is for PE, no other lessons need extra items.
It's not like when I was at school and I had to carry text books etc, they leave everything in class

 

[yakobu123]

@yuliia it’s not like that in every school.

 

[marc22039]

@christianinchrist Many schools require kids to look after their own excercise books. When I was at school, we had all of our books at home and just brought the books in we needed for that days lessons, which was 5 lessons per day (obviously no book for PE/DT/ICT/Food Tech) pencil case, log book (homework journal to write down what our homework was) and any extra things we needed for example revision guides, novels for English if we were studying one at the time etc so bags had to be quite big to fit it all

 

[mikael93]

Her son might not be able to grab and go, it can affect organising single step tasks. The anxiety is real when their bag doesn’t have what they expect to make their day a little bit easier.
Jayne Graham - I’m a TA and I have some students who have a clear folder for any loose sheets to sort when they get home.

 

[zeromark]

@yuliia do your kids need to go back and forward to their lockers for each lesson to get the stuff for each subject? This would be even worse for my son so I hope it’s not the case at his school , thanks for the heads up I’ll find out if that’s the case at his new school because he’d need alternatives put in place.

 

[zeromark]

@mikael93 yeah it’s a huge problem with the associated anxiety, I can nearly feel it myself for him just thinking about this . He has a tray at school now that he can’t even grab and go from, so they’ve set him up a box on his desk but that won’t work for secondary.

 

[alexander5106954665]

@yuliia clear wallets with a zip For work and one for extra stationery item that aren’t often used.

 

[navdeep]

My son is in year 7 and has the same needs, we ended up with a lap top back tuck sack style, plain black had lots of pockets and had really helped him. From the outside just looks like a plane back rucksack. I got it on Amazon.
Does he have an EHCP of so they should also help him with organisation - good luck xx
Just thought also after months of loosing stationery wr now have a pencil case where he can see what’s missing!

 

[zeromark]

@navdeep yes I’ve looked at the laptop ones from Amazon and it may well be the way we go, thank you . He doesn’t have an EHCP - presumably because it doesn’t affect him academically but the head of SEN is aware of his issues.
I haven’t even thought of pencil cases yet thanks for the link!

 

[navdeep]

@zeromark no prob - we had laminated list on a keychain inside bag etc, a list of what’s needed each day etc. he will find what e works for him xx

 

[bestrong413]

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[vafollower]

I got my childrens ones from Amazon my eldest is ASD and takes all his books every day so his bag is huge and my
Daughter has 4 popper folders for her work books each day and a pencil case with her name on for her stationary
Wishing your son best of luck come September (my other child is going to secondary as well)

 

[yakobu123]

Shantelle Button my son is exactly the same, his bag weighs a ton each day

 

[zeromark]

@vafollower crikey his bag must be heavy. My son is more likely to be the opposite and only want to take the very bare minimum as he’s aware he can’t cope with overwhelm. I feel like the wallets will be the way to go.

 

[dxfax]

My child’s school leave all books in class with teacher and only bring home once book is full, check with the school what they do first just in case.
This is as most homework is completed online rather than in books

 

[briantheophilus]

At my children's school they don't bring their books home, however we thought of homework organisation so we bought a folder with compartments. We labeled the compartments with the subjects and all handouts/homework goes in here. Our som has now left school but our daughter is super organised due to strategies like these x