I think someone is stealing my sons PE kit in school

[welshbyrd]

DS is 7yo. Since September he has lost a jumper, few socks etc, nothing I would not call normal

That was until 2 months ago, his whole PE bag vanished. He went to lost property, changing rooms etc to look for it. Nothing. It was a Doctor Who backpack, with his name clearly written on inside of it, its contents were a man utd top [this seasons] and a pair of ordinary shorts. I thought a child with a similar bag had picked it up, and once his/her mum checked bag/washed PE kit, she would realize, and send it back in

This never happened, and seems bag has disappeared off the face of the earth

As DS has dyspraxia [forgetfulness, lack of organisational skills] and the bag had not been returned, I thought he had mislaid it

Until last Thrusday, DS has PE again, this time he came home with his bag [had bought him a new one]. Pulled it out to wash, had his shorts in, and missing was a Welsh rugby shit [this seasons again]
His auntie works at the school, so she helped DS look in the lost property, for the shirt, again nothing

I can not help thinking he stuff is being stolen
I have phoned the school, they were going to have a good look tonight, and send a letter home with DS tomorrow as to whether they found anything.

Im assuming after they do not find anything [I know they wont, because auntie has throughly checked], they are going to send me a note of no they can not find it. And that will be the end of it
Which if Im honest Im not happy about!!!!
Anyone else had any dealings of this sort?

The names on the back of the football shirts is a very good idea.

How many letters are there in this first name? If only 3 or 5 then you could embroider his entire first name on the left breast of any other PE polo plain shirts that he has.

I would be furious. Someone took my 5yo DS's coat this year and I am really pissed off about that. The class teacher has searched the classroom and lost property and everywhere it would have been and she is certain that it went home with someone else and they didn't return it.

At secondary school we had to embroider our initials onto our aertex tops and skirts as well as have name tags, never occurred to me potential theft was the reason, why anyone would want to steal a revolting blue aertex is beyond me though.

I used to get a lot of pencils, pens and rubbers going missing at primary school. Secondary school was less of a problem as it was in my bag all the time which was usually with me.

From my experience so far, boys are less competitive about clothes etc than girls

At my primary school (80s) the boys used to be far worse in the juniors in terms of having the right trainers, Farah trousers and a lacoste/le shark top to be in the popular gang.

I don't recall any particular fashion brands the girls were bothered about.

DD has left yet another cardigan on the field yesterday so hopefully that will turn up today or I'll have to go hunting through lost property again. We've lost 1 cardigan and 1 jumper which were both named and she's only in Year 1!

i would be inclined to go yourself and check every cloakroom and lost property box in the school.We have has so much stuff vanish off the face of the earth and turn up later
DS1 old primary school returned to us one of his trainers which had turned up behind something when he was in Y10!!! what good they thought it would be to him.....??

Maybe that's just our school then, the girls are vile to each other about everything from hairstyles to which socks they wear, whereas for the most part, the boys rub along OK together.

Perhaps its because the boys are really outnumbered by the girls in ds1's year (22 girls and 7 boys in ds1's class and simliar in the other class in his year) so there's not enough of them to split up into popular and unpopular gangs.