How much school uniform?

[BonjourMinou]

Hello

Now we have had confirmation on which secondary school DD will be going to next year, I have been looking at school uniform and mentally adding up.

For primary school I bought enough tops and skirts for every day of the week (they wear PE kit to school on PE days so say 3 skirts, 2 leggings, 3 tops, 2 PE t shirts.

Secondary school want branded blazer, skirt, PE kit. The skirts are £20 each!

Do I still buy 5? Or do most people make do with 2-3? Do you all wash after every wear or re-use?

I think I would struggle to keep up with washing if I only had 2 skirts we kept washing!

What do other people do please?

Clean shirt/blouse every day, skirts/trousers, jumpers/sweatshirts change when dirty or mid week for sweatshirts. The hope is that a 12 year old is less likely to drop yoghurt down their sweatshirt or snot up their sleeves than a 5 year old. Obviously depends on the child though. Also see if there is a second hand shop, useful for a second PE kit etc.

How fast can everything dry is the main question I would be asking. My sons didn't have blazers and their jumper could be washed after school, hung up and dry by morning.

Mine had 6 pairs of trousers but they were unbranded so a 2 pack was £12. Clean pair every day. They had 5 white shirts and 3 of their branded jumpers. They rewore a jumper so Monday clean on, rewear it Tuesday and into the wash, Friday's jumper would be worn once and then washed with the rest. PE kit was washed after each wear as very dirty from rugby etc and also sweaty socks.

As I said this does come down to how fast things dry. If they had sports on Tuesday then PE Wednesday that is a tight turn around. If the school uniform is easily available you can always add another item in later on. Ours was an online supplier so fully stocked as no physical shop to stock.

Definitely not likely to drop yoghurt down herself (although with my son in the year below, it is almost inevitable...) would you say 2 skirts will be enough then?

I don't know how often she will have PE! Do you find out timetables as part of year 6 transition? Maybe I'm worrying about this too early...

We did 1 skirt and 1 pair of trousers. Wash at weekends, if needs be swap to non preferred item mid week.
Preference to skirt v trousers seems trend/friend dependent.

My dc had 5 shirts, 3 jumpers, 3 bottoms & 2 blazers plus 1 PE kits & trainers.

I bought the 2nd blazer & 3rd jumper & 3rd bottoms from the school pre worn shop.

Edited to say PE once a week unless they do additional after school sports.

You need 5 blouses,2 skirts, 1 jumper and 1 blazer.

Thanks all, this is really helpful