Secondary school uniform - advice required re shirts

[Topbird29]

My son is starting secondary school in September and needs to wear proper shirts. He is sensitive to seams etc (never wears jeans, only joggers or shorts), and primary school has been polo shirts so not too much of an issue.
Can anyone recommend school shirts that are not too stiff or "scratchy". Or are they all very similar? In which case, any tips? Just know will have same complaints every morning!!

M&S have softer fabric compared to Asda but even Asda is good.

My 2 kids always wore short sleeved shirts and then they had no annoying sleeves and buttons to deal with there. Means no dirty marks on the arms of shirts too. I found tesco had roomier arms than asda

https://sensorysmart.co.uk/products/autism-friendly-school-shirt-short-sleeve-shirt-spectra-sensory-clothing-from

Does he have additional needs/a diagnosis? If so, he may be excused from wearing those particular shirts.

Agreed - it’s a ‘reasonable adjustment’ to wear more comfortable waistbands or polo shirts if you have a medical need. I have known this in my job for children to have uniform - adjustments related to anxiety, eating disorders, hypothyroidism, nose-bleeds caused by the heat, eczema, autism and scars. As the mother of a child with sensory issues, I’m very careful about where I put the name tags, wash new shirts repeatedly before they’re worn and size up so that the neck isn’t tight.

I buy M&S skin kind 100% cotton shirts.

They don’t have labels, instead they are printed on the inside of the neck (yoke? placket?)

Main reason I get them is dc struggles with temperature regulation and gets eczema and heat rash with the non iron type shirts with polyester.

But dc2 who has them handed down and says they are much softer and more comfortable too than non iron ones.

@Ladyoftheknight - dont think it is serious enough a problem to get a diagnosis for reasonable adjustments.

Thanks others - will look at short sleeved shirts and also the m&s ones suggested. Will also wash a couple of times prior to start of school to see if that helps soften whatever we go for.

In my experience, school shirts soften with tumble drying-preferably with a spiky ball to bash them about a bit. I have sensory kids OP so I get it but as they’re both rule driven too the needing to follow the rules outweighs the uncomfortableness of shirts. But I do try and soften new ones up a bit before wearing.

DS used to have the M&S ones, I think the seams are french seams so sewn down