Non-uniform clothing essentials for school?

[BestZebbie]

What are the usual sorts of costumes, non-uniform clothing (etc) that your child reliably needs every year for primary school? I am trying to get organised now for as much of the year as possible to cut down on the number of 24-hr notice panics.
So far I have:

• a spotty top for children in Need
  
• jeans for jeans for genes day
  
• a xmas jumper for 'wear your xmas jumper' day
  

I presume there will also be some sort of fancy dress so I'm trying to make sure we can also cover recognisable costume for some kind of book character too.

[OneOfMyTurnsComingOn]

Our school does World Book Day - so a book character, this is very usual in primary schools. Some do Roald Dahl day, too.

There are occasional other days - wear a specific colour for charity.

[Cabawill]

I got caught out by Eco Day last year- wear something green. Who knew that neither of my DC had anything green in their wardrobe!

[Seeline]

The worst ones are the historical days - wear Egyptian/roman/tudor/ww2 type costumes. I always kept an old sheet handy and got to know my local charity shops.....

[whoareyou123]

In yr1 DS's school did the Children of the World Christmas play where he was asked to dress like someone from Malawi. For Yr2 he had to dress in a county and western style. The is no way that you could guess these in advance.

[Apple23]

Warm pyjamas for wear-your-pyjamas to school day

Sports kit in "house" (which may only be decided a few days beforehand) colours for sports day - red, blue yellow, green shorts, t-shirt and cardi. Just pray they're not in yellow house - virtually impossible to find at short notice and attracts thunder-flies like crazy.

Costume for whichever historical period they are studying
Brown or black t-shirt and tights/ leggings to wear under play costumes

Endless supply of £1 coins to pay for the privilege of these events
Set of "best" uniform for school photograph, prize-giving day etc.
Waterproofs, wellies, water-bottle and rucksack for day-trips.

[EvilDoctorBallerinaDuckKeidis]

What year are they in? Year 5 are doing World War II as a topic, and last year's year 5 had to go in as evacuees.

[RedSkyAtNight]

Plain large white T-shirts and a selection of coloured markers will provide the basis for lots of costumes.

If you have a girl an apron (I made one from an old pillow case) and a dark coloured dress can be modified to fit just about any historical period.

[noramum]

We have Comic Relief - red; Children in need - spotty, a couple of years ago it was pyjamas and Breast Cancer - pink.

World Book day is normally around end of February/beginning of March. Speak to your child early but in the last years we got a theme where they had to dress as a character in a mystery/historical/superhero book. That was obviously told 1 week before the big day. And I hate to sew and my sewing mad friend has two children herself and is busy.

Dress up in connection with term topics is also popular, some are easy to get/do, some are a nightmare. We got Anglo/Saxon with a one week notice, for Egyptian day/Rainforest we had 2 weeks. For the Egyptian one DD lost the letter and I didn't believe her until 3 days before when I cracked and fired a fb message to our year group. Amazon Prime thank you. If your child is telling you about a dress up than ask another parent or the school.

For anything simple I buy these T-shirts. They are great in all primary colours, even yellow which caused problems with a drama production:

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They are quite large, so most will do for 2 years.

Christmas plays can be easy or difficult. The main costumes are covered by the school but we get letters for supporting roles like last year grey leggings/trouser and T-shirt as DD was a donkey. Or like in Infant where every class has a role and you get a request for a Summer dress in December (representing Australia in a multi national Christmas production, don't ask).

[Unihorn]

We needed leotards with two days' notice for a school play last year, that was fun.