Secondary school stationary?

[pollysproggle]

DS starts secondary school on Wednesday, I'm about to hit the shops to get him a pencil case and stationary.

There's so much in the shops and the school hasn't provided a list.

What does he really need to start the year?

I got ds a pencil case, pencils, rubber, sharpener, maths set and scientific calculator

Ours said: black pen; red pen; ruler; eraser (no jokes about rubbers allowed ); ruler; pencil; sharpener; coloured pencils.
Also a planner - basically a school year length diary.

Same here. We brought: writing pen and pencil; rubber and pencil sharpener; colouring pencils; scientific calculator and a maths set - compass, pertractor etc.

I would add a couple of highlighters and a glue stick.

Our school only allows pens with black ink.

Stationery to have at home- printer ink, scissors, glue, printer paper, coloring pencils, coloring pens, compass, protractor, 30cm ruler

Stationery to take to school- pens, sharpener, pencil, scientific calculator, ruler

Our school provides a Planner so didn't need one of them.

i am so sorry to be a git but....it' stationEry
The best way to remember is to think E for envelope

Our schools on provides planners too

Haha yes of course crunchtime! We'll blame my autocorrect for that

I was wondering about notepads and journals too, I'm not sure what the school provide.

Good point about what is also needed at home

I did get some plastic wallets for putting jotters/worksheets into. Saves them getting scrunched up in the bottom on the bag

Be prepared for them to lose everything too! I was constantly replacing bits and pieces, in the end I thought it was a good idea to keep a few things in a cupboard.

Ours is same as Shannaratiger but also glue stick, scissors, green pen, ruler

Black pens, a pencil, ruler, a scientific calculator (Casio if you can get one).

Also helpful but can manage without- scissors and glue, protractor and compass.

We were also warned to get double if pens etc. There are detentions for failing to have them although they can be bought at school if necessary and available.

I’ve found they all seem to want basic stationery rather than the fancy shiny stuff I wanted at school.

So nice biros, or the four colours in one pen, frixon pens, good quality pencils like the stabilo ones that don’t have broken led in.

Clear or plain pencil case. Scientific calculator. Check the Sccool doesn’t want them all to have a specific one. Maths set, the helix ones are usually in offer in the supermarkets.

I’d also buy plastic wallets so they can keep work separate, labels so they can label the folders, glue sticks and spare essential items like pens pencils, runners, sharpeners and rulers.

For some unkireason dd got through about 5/6 rulers last year!

unknown reason

Secondary teacher here.
2 black biros
2 blue biros
1 red biro
1 green biro
2 pencils
Ruler
Rubber
Packet of highlighters
Maths set

No need for glue, colouring pencils, and teachers hate tippex! Fountain pens are a pain too.

I would check with the school about calculators. At our school they all have to have the same one (they have lessons on how to use it). Our school also supplies their planners

Ours have also asked that students each have a whiteboard pen, foreign language dictionary and combination padlock for their locker (not strictly stationery, I know!).

I got DD A4+ sized coloured pouches, for her main subjects - to put the books, copies, loose sheets etc all together. I coordinated her timetable (copies for locker, school journal, and home) using the same colours, and managed to find some of the same colours for hardback copies (required for some subjects) and regular copies and folders for loose papers and study notes. Just to make it easier to be organized when moving from classroom to classroom, and taking so much home at night and back in again after study.

Otherwise, she still had pencil cases that were fine, and a maths set (but got a new one anyway as DH organized the booklist - I'm keeping one at home for study and the other will live in her locker).

New scientific calculator was needed (type was specified on booklist).

We have a stash of red, blue and black pens, pencils, erasers, parers etc - built up over the years of primary and also to have plenty in the study/office when any of us need them. And I tend to use other coloured pens at times (for marking up different versions of things and seeing that I'm looking at the right one!) so DD can grab some of those too.

We added highlighters to that this year, and post-it notes.

We got her a stapler and 2 hole punch for school, as she needs to have folders there. We already had some at home as well, and loads of poly-pockets to put loose sheets into.

I got her a normal refill pad (lined), and also a plain one (no lines at all) and a boxed one (for graphs etc). I'll make use of those over time, but I thought it was better to have them when she needed them urgently. They're at home for now - but in her desk.

Apparently she needs other pencils for art (some different levels of B ones - different softnesses of the lead to make different effects when drawing) but we don't know exactly what yet.

The journal was provided by school and apparently the maths and the science copy books are to be bought there too.

Her old water bottles are fine, and as they have hot dinners in house, no lunch box was needed but she does need a small snack so smaller pots for fruit are being commandeered from my cupboard!

I think most, if not all, secondary schools provide planners.

Generally you will need a pencil case, black ballpens, pencil, 12" ruler, rubber, sharpener, highlighters, gluestick, scientific calculator. DD also needed a red ballpen and a green one.

When he gets his timetable make a copy of it straight away. They always get lost. I kept a copy of DD's timetable on the fridge as well.

There aren't enough lockers at dd/ds school and in the 4 years dd has been there she's never had one. Dd also never been asked to bring different colour biro pens or to have a highlighter or whiteboard pen

Our school wants a specific calculator but claims to sell them cheaper so I will go for that. We have to supply the planner.
@pollysproggle , if your school didn't give a list before maybe they will in the first week.

Our school never gave a list either so just cobbled stuff together

And on the second "urgently needed stationary shopping trip" over the weekend, we also had to add

A permanent marker
2 whiteboard markers
Dividers (for folders)
More hardback copies

On the booklist is an English dictionary and an irish dictionary - but they borrow language dictionaries from school until they decide which 1 or 2 of the 3 languages on offer they will do (then I expect we will have to purchase).

School provide locks for lockers (combination types - they have a master key).

And I literally went through her old desk, and my own stash, over the weekend to check general supplies and gather together what is still useful (and throw out those that are spent or almost!) - so there's a full box of pens and pencils and highlighters available that I expect will be a lot emptier in a few months time.