what school bag does your y7/8 girl have? worrying 11 year old seeking style advice

DD going into Y8 had a Roxy backpack last year and we have just bought a Gola messenger bag for this year.
She says she will still use her rucksack for sports kits as she could never fit all her stuff into one bag last year and frequently took stuff in other random bags!

She was going to go halves on a Cath Kidston saddle bag, but then decided it was much too expensive!

Jane Norman bags and pencil cases (usually a make-up case given another use) are the norm around here. However, they wear at the corners and eventually wear right through, and are not quite wide enough to comfotably fit books in.

Having always been happy with a rucksack (which I had hoped might continue as I think it is easier to carry and less damaging), I am afraid fashion won over common sense. But I refused to buy it ;O)

My 15 year old year 11 has just looked at your link and said "ooh I like it" [SMILE] so I'm sure it will be fine. She says she has seen people at her school with bags like that.

That's good to know - thanks jellybeans

250 pounds on a school bag seems bonkers to me; I wouldn't spend that much on a bag for myself so deffo wouldn't for dds.

Currently dd1 has a choice of - big purple Clarks bag or old fashioned satchel type and dd2 has a Gola one.

Now - I have promised them both new pencil cases this summer but they have to keep the bags for a while more! They usually have Paperchase or Emma Bridgewater pencil cases.

plonker, they are very fashionable, have seen lots of the tado ones at DD's school, they do last quite well aswell.

In fashion at DD's school

Gola bags, 'pop' bags, stereo bags, wheres wally etc and that messenger style kind of bag
'big handbag' style bags
paul's boutique bags

The sort OP posted would be fine. I can only speak for girls though. Rucksacks are a no-no for anything past the first bit of year 7.

treas - I love the red leather satchel! I want one myself!

Dd is starting Y7 and has picked out this one.

I have no idea how it fashionable or stylish it is, but dd likes it ...and it is rather cute

seeker, my DD would soon set her straight, you see I am from time to time the meanest mum in the world...

ALL the other girls in her year have an iphone, and ALL the other girls in her year are allowed to roam the streets until 5am, and EVERYONE wears eyeliner to school except her, and NOONE else's mum makes them do SO much around the house, and its just SO LAME that I ask what homework she has because she would like TOTALLY do it anyway you see.

DD has a Nike bag, but other than that she likes Animal. She is going to Secondary school this September as well.

My dd3 14 has just bought herself an ond style satchel for next term,they seem to be the new trend round here.
dd2 12 has a Fred Perry messenger bag.

Not sure tha makes it any better - part of her Christmas present???????? I'm not letting my dd see this, she'll be on your doorstep claiming she's your dd' long lost twin!

That should read anything for a quiet life

Haha you are right! Maybe I should name change to CompletelyAndUtterlyInsane! In my defence, it was part of her Christmas present, not just a school bag, so I gave in. Hides in the corner - anything for a quiet life

pointy dog

Well, the £250 bag was bought by GraduallygoingInsane.

I am at some of the bags being used here - esp the £249 Jack Wills bag - seriously? For a 15 year old?
I am so relieved my DSs were both happy with common or garden rucksacks, but I think I had better start saving for when DD starts next year

Big shoulder handbags here too with a smattering of Cath Kidston satchels at the posher schools. Over the last year (yr7) DD has gone through 3 bags. The most successful was a Primark number.

Big shoulder handbag style is the thing to have for my dds.

It changes quite a lot from school to school though.

seeker

Here it's those foul paula boutique bags that seem to be all the rage. £60ish for a vile bag that falls to bits in no time

Coccyx-do you have older children?

. how can a lunchbox be wrong. Why get drawn into this nonsense

I tore an article out of a newspaper magazine on this subject for my DD (8th Grade - think that is Year 9) as she loves to see what everyone in England is wearing. The article showed groups of girls from three schools in the same town - the first Paul's Boutique was the standard, the second was Cath Kidston and the third was Longchamp .

This is what my own DD hopes to be carrying next school year - you have to scroll down a little to see it.

My unworldly 11yo is about to start secondary and has a backpack that I approve of and that's perfectly fine at primary, but I am suggesting we go shopping a week into the new term once she's cased out what the others have in terms of bag, also shoes, also lunchbox. So we won't buy anything really before term starts in case it's all wrong for secondary school.

dd actually doesn't care at all about any sort of fashion or trend but I worry a bit for her.