How much have you spent on school uniform?

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Here’s mine, ~£300 for 1 in lower secondary school. Probably missed a few things off and will need to top up during the year.

Coat £30 (Vinted)
Shoes £35
1 x PE kit (top, shorts, fleece) £45 (branded)
2 x trousers £34
3 x polos £36 (branded)
2 x sweatshirts £34 (branded)
5 x socks £7

Rucksack £25
Stationery £20
Calculator £15 (specific one needed)
Water bottle £10

Couldn’t have got much of this cheaper unless second hand and even then it costs. Made me think of people with 2-3+ children. Must really add up in 1 go over the summer!

cheapish year for us - going into year 8
pack of shirts £6 in Asda
school shoes £65 (yes, I know, but she asked nicely for Kickers and I think her feet have stopped growing so I'm hoping she might get a couple of years out of them).
And two quid for a ruler.

I'll need to top up socks and tights at ridiculously frequent intervals though. DC1 has started college so nothing needed there.

We find that in terms of uniform, you hardly ever have to buy anything for the second child. It all gets handed down.
All we buy for the younger one are school shoes, and football boots (oldest was a size 13 in year 2 - youngest is just about an 11)

Mmm..

Coat - £75
Fleece - £25
3 polos - £25
Shoes - £100
2 shirts - £15
2 trousers - £24
PE shorts - £12
Shorts - £13
Tie - £5
Bag - £35
Lunch bag - £15
Stationery - £20
Fees - £15
Water bottle - £7

Fuck me. He's 8.

Also the shoes were £100 DMs but he's a size 4 now

Dd is y11, new blazer cause old one getting tatty and new pe top. Total £50.

DS, y10, growth spurt so need to get everything. I’m fuming about PE kit. £51 for pe t shirt. £27 for shorts, £55 for pe jumper. I’m not going to buy the £11 branded socks and he can live without pe tracksuit bottoms til October. It’s a state school. My son wears kit four days a week - we are going to get two sets of pe kit and then it’s a wash mid week.

Kickers are fab for secondary school my dd got 2 years wear out of hers

Eldest starting in reception and spent around £250 including shoes, pe trainers and a winter coat 😫

Daughter going in to reception and her new blazer costs £98 new!! I bought it second hand for £15 and dry cleaned it for £7.

That is an insane amount for any piece of uniform for a reception child. Surely they will be playing in the dirt and painting? Well done for finding a secondhand one but aren’t schools being compelled to make uniform more affordable?

£500 for 3 (2 in secondary, 1 in primary) and that's with a lot of it being second hand too. If new, it would've been more like £700-800.

Prob around £200 1x infant age.
Happy with that as will last ages as purchased extra polos for when they mark. The jumpers lasted the whole year last time. Shoes were £50 out of that though.

And hoping last year's coat will fit. Have a new rain one but winter coat i think will fit still. Was just a matalan one about £28 it was washed and tumbled weekly and still looks new. ( dc always gets filthy and a wipe down don't cut it)

DS going in to Y8

Trousers x 2 £16
School bag £32
A pen

He swears he doesn't need anything else, although he did only get new shoes and shirts at Whit.

Blazer and PE kit will last another year.

God. Mine is awful. Son about to start at a private senior school.

I think it's been around £850!!

1 in Y8, 1 in Y11. Just two pairs of trousers needed as everything else fits fine. Sadly they are from the adult range so were about £20-odd each, but hopefully she has stopped growing now (these were the same size as last year, just a longer length) so they should last a while. Thank goodness for teenage girls who stop growing early!

£1000 🙄

Nothing

DD going into year 1.

Most of what she has will still fit for a bit longer. Had quite a bit of second hand uniform stashed away and last year I made the mistake of buying a few bits only to get items handed to me at the school gate in the first week of term, so returned what I'd bought.

I will just buy from Next online as and when she grows out of it or wears it out (leggings).

Not too bad,

Pe trainers 48
Pe shorts 12
Polo shirts sold out everywhere - argh
Boxers - 24
Ludicrously specific rugby top for 6 weeks wear - 40

Everything else still fits for now, so can replace over the year, thankfully.

It’s extremely unlikely it’s a state school.

Same give or take.

@LittleBearPad our local catholic state school has blazers in that price category (summer dresses are £68….).
Our (private) school blazers are £45

£140 approx - new shoes, trainers, shirts for y8 DS. May need new coat but can get that when it gets actually cold. New PE shorts probably needed but he does have joggers he can wear.
Y11 DD doesn't need anything and hates looking too new anyway 🤷‍♀️

Going into year 11. DS is growing so fast I can almost see it. And the school is changing sports strip so quite a lot this term.

Blazer £100
uniform shorts £20
shoes £51
Sports top £20
Sports shorts £20
Sports socks £5
Sports hoody £25 =£241

Thankfully his shirts still fit, and I've rehemmed his trousers with seam binding so they might last until Christmas. 🙄

Feel for those spending hundreds if not £1k - that's painful

About £150 for dd starting secondary so needing all new. Plus £50 for shoes.

Nothing on y4 ds as everything still fits / we’ve had extra hand me downs from friends.