School uniform... How many?

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My daughter is starting school after the summer holidays. We have been sent a form to order school uniform, and I'm just wondering how many of each item to order?

We can use generic trousers, skirts, pinafores and polo shirts, but the school logo needs to be on a sweatshirt or cardi. Would you have a full set per day? Or rely on keeping up with washing and drying in the week? The cardigans are £13 each!!

It's not enforced, it's 'strongly encouraged' and I'm a real sucker for the rules 🤣

They haven't mentioned 2nd hand but I'm a big 2nd hand fan normally so may email them about this as an option.

Up until year 4-5 I had a uniform for every day. Now they just have a new shirt each day and re wear the trousers/skirts/shorts unless dirty. Our shirts are white though so very easily visibly dirty. I always bought one school logo cardi and one from supermarket as back up. Over the years I’ve managed to collect hand downs from friends so have some more logo cardies now.
I work long shifts including nights so can’t always be bothered to wash mid week so needed a full 5 sets for the younger years.

That’s fair! I’d maybe wait and see what the vibe is- generally speaking most of the younger ones at my school will wear the jumper with the logo but cardigans just the school colour as the school logo cardigans are a strange material!

Since Covid, mine go in on PE days in their PE kit and stay in it all day, rather than getting changed for PE, so they only have 2 days a week in uniform, and 3 days a week in PE kit. So its better for me to have more PE kit than uniform. Can you check if they will be in uniform all 5 days?

My dcs get filthy sand play, mud kichen, lunch, paint, pens etc

Dd has 5 logo cardigan
2 pinafores
3 summer dresses
4 skirts
8 polos

Originally started with 4x2 packs of polos these were all wrecked by oct half term (the white board markers they use does not wash out)
So another 8 new ones oct, jan and easter!
Glad they're cheap.

She makes more mess than pre school dc.

And before anyone says about waste. Dh uses for rags which saves getting from the suppliers, he goes through loads so anything not fit to pass on is rag

A shirt/polo for every day. 3 cardigans and 3 of whatever else they where E.g 3 pinafores or 3 skirts etc. one to wear, one in the wash and one in waiting. The shirt/polo is purely so I don’t have to iron more uniform midweek 🙈

Logo encouraged here too but can see more and more kids turning up in supermarket red jumpers. They are so expensive and when they come out with black market all over their clothes you’ll wish you’d bought cheap ones!

Thank you I will check this!

Thanks everyone, lots of good advice. Can't believe my baby is going to school. I do not feel ready for this 🤣

We have five full sets so we don’t have to wash and iron it in the week, my son the has five baskets in his wardrobe, so every weekend we fill each one with a days worth of uniform, it stops the hunt for uniform in the morning and means he doesn’t forget anything/fart around pretending he can’t find a shirt etc.

As this is a Scottish primary uniform can't be enforced neither can a child that doesn't wear uniform be penalized in any way most folks do 1or 2 logoed for photos concert etc etc and rest generic. keep one unworn until school photo day . However due to sectarian problems in some areas football strips are definitely banned often on non uniform days too. Technically you could send them in jeans and hoodie I wouldn't advice it asi do think basic colour coded uniform is a good idea just simple grey trousers or skirt pale blue polo shirt royal blue sweatshirt type of thing is perfectly fine for primary

I always bought 10 sets so two weeks worth. I ended up with 5 sets by the end of the year.

I didn't have a tumble dryer when DD was small and her clothes got very mucky when she was little. I would do the same now as wouldn't want to use the tumble dryer or have the stress of getting everything washed and ready.
Shirts and trousers/skirts for every day
3 x jumpers in current size
2 x jumpers in next size up

That way you can have a jumper every day if you need to and just roll the sleeves up of the larger ones.

Jumpers/cardigans mine have two each. Other items of uniform they have loads that I've accumulated. It's handy because it means if I don't put a uniform wash on they have plenty there but it takes up a lot of space and in reality I probably only need two each of those. My twins only wear uniform 3 days a week anyway cause they have PE twice and go in their kit.

If it's not private school I'm sure they can't force you to buy from them..just get the colours they have and go to supermarket or m&s! Or even better Vinted! Tons of bargain uniform stuff on Vinted. I got 3 grey pinafores for £1

Judging by the last few weeks I'd barely bother getting one set; they seem to spend most of their time dressed as a book / union flag / endangered animal!

5 sets of everything but polo shirts. I'd get about 10 of those as they stain so easily

Reception needed change daily, year 1/2 cardigan and skirt last all week, buy they are in PE kits 1-2days a week too.