to think that not many 11 year old boys have "spotty" clothes??

[amck5700]

Children in Need day at school on Friday - Children are having a non-uniform day and pay a minimum of 50p to raise money for children in need - don't have any problem with that.

Then read further down and see that they have to wear something spotty - the spottier the better - that's probably not too bad to fulfil if you have a young girl - nightmare if you have a boy - especially an 11 year old!!

I am sure the children that are in need don't really care how the money is raised - so why make such a specific stipulation?? - I'm not buying him anything special so unless I ruin a piece of his existing clothes by drawing spots on it, then he wont get to participate.

[ladygoldenlion]

Ours have to wear yellow, much easier than spots for boys!

[EvilTwins]

I came on to shout "DON'T BLAME THE SCHOOL, BLAME THE BBC" but I see someone has already done that.

We're doing the same where I work but if kids turn up in mufti but no spots, we're hardly going to send them home. Get a grip.

[littlebrownmouse]

Mine went with spot stickers all over his face one year.

[sparkle12mar08]

Bugger that - I just send ds in ordinary mufti. They're not going to send them home again...

[seeker]

And soon there'll be a thread about how primary schools are all just SATs factories, and there's no joy in them any more and teachers never go the extra mile.............

[goldenlula]

Mine are drawing circles with coloured pens on t shirts (which I did buy but they were £2 for 2, so ds2 has one ready for next year and I gave the other one to ds1's friend). I could have used one of their polo shirts had I have thought of it as they have seen better days. I officially haven't received any notification of it being spotty day, I just happened to see a sign in the school office when I collected ds2 on Fri for a SALT app. Had I not had to do this I wouldn't know, but apparently a text was sent but neither dh or I have received it which is unusual.

[CaptainKirksNipples]

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Sorted. Don't have a problem with children in need or Red Nose Day as we get enough notice, but we had to wear purple for something and my 8yr old ds has nothing purple!

[fortifiedwithtea]

DD2 school gone down the wear your pj to school route for CIN.

Kid in DD2 class gone down with Chicken Pox so our school theme could have been grow your spots for CIN [grins].

[VivaLeBeaver]

I thought I'd escape this this year as dd now in yr7. No she's brought a letter home today. So 4 days notice and I'm at work all week. FFs.

I wouldn't mind if I had a bit more notice.

[amck5700]

That's a pretty good price too Captain - wont be big enough for me but useful for someone without an abnormally large primary child.

Evil - get a grip???? wtf that all about?

seeker - I don't think anyone here really has a problem with the concepts of a, doing something nice for the kids and b, raising cash for charity, it's the specific nature of the instruction and late notice that is annoying.

Just spoken to him and he says that he will just wear school uniform and donate his money as it would be a waste of a t-shirt - all I said was what do you want to do, shall we decorate a t-shirt? :(

[ioness]

Think yourself lucky. We have to provide ww2 evacuee clothes by next week. Yes, my 7 year old pink and purply leopard print loving 7 year old has loads of brown/grey skirts, cardigans and blouses

[Kbear]

school uniform will do for evacuee day, with odd socks falling down, plaits in hair, cut down an old pair of trousers for boys, cardboard box covered in brown paper with a string handle and a luggage label cut out of brown paper with their name on. easy :)

[picturesinthefirelight]

Def normal school uniform (shorts if poss for boys) with the obligatory shoebox has mask.

[ioness]

could you come round kbear and sort it all out? Mine hates skirts and ribbons in hair. These are two of the "must haves" on the list. i will be wrestling with her to get them on next week.

[Kbear]

on way!!

Seriously don't worry too much - scruffy school uniform with unbrushed hair (IDEAL for that harrassed parent in the mornings!! ) - don't worry about plaits, give her a gas mask box to carry and a teddy bear and she's all set. If she wants to wear trousers, let her, so what? Teachers won't care and she'll feel like she's joining in without being uncomfortable.

My ds hated dressing up but WW2 was the only day he didn't mind because it was almost what he wore usually!!

[Kbear]

why not go online with her and show her what girls looked like then, so she knows she won't be dressed up like a doll, but more or less what she looks like now!

[ioness]

Thanks kbear. I'm thinking of bringing out narnia and the box of delights and scrutinising what the dc are wearing.

[UniS]

DS wore a spotty bandana last year.

Other children wore home made spotty shirts or baseball caps , done with stickers or pens, need not be fabric pens.
Year 3 MADE spotty bandanas.

[confuugled]

Prime him to say that he is wearing invisible spots.

or white spots on his white shirt (or whatever colour he happens to be wearing).

or hang a bottle of clearasil around his neck.

or say that he is wearing microspots

or that the spots are on their side and therefore not visible in this dimension...