to think that 2.5yo shouldn't wear school uniform?

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My friends DD goes to a nursery attached to a Prep School. They are required to wear school uniform from 2.5 when they join the Pre Prep Dept. She looks ridiculous in her uniform as everything is too big? Is this right?

Ah right, never known of preschool called pre prep. Always pre school or nursey here or sometimes foundation 1.

Doesn't bother me to see little ones in uniform, but then I prefer uniform for school anyway - both as a parent and from a teaching staff pov.

Cough lots better thanks. Inhaler helping a lot for tightness of chest etc too.

I don't think 2.5 year olds are made to wear uniforms. I think the average 2.5 year old doesn't really care and would happily go to school in a sack if they liked going to school. YABU to even be thinking about this, it's not even your child.

What no one has stated yet is that one of the main reasons for the introduction of uniform in Nursery is the policy of Safeguarding. DS's school did not require uniform when he was in Nursery last year but does as of this September, uniform being a tracksuit in the school colours and a polo shirt. Should a child ever, God forbid, go missing, a description of what they were wearing is easy. Before we went on a trip with the Nursery class last year, before uniform, the teachers had to note what each child was wearing so that a description could be given. Time consuming to say the least with a class of twenty six. Also, I can tell you as a teacher myself that when you are out anywhere with a class, it is much easier if you can look around and know instantly which ones are yours. If you would prefer to make it harder for us to identify your kid on, say, a trip to a woodland park, or to make it very hard for us to describe them should they go missing, then that's up to you!

Quite, DrSeuss. Which is why I don't understand my dc's schools: they encourage the children to come in non-uniform for day-trips.