To think school uniform does not just walk off

[Chattymummyhere]

One of my children is on half days as its their first week in reception class, they have a bag they use for spare clothes incase of accidents so they can change, this bag went in with the children on day one and has not left school since unless a child has had an accident, so to go in on day 3 and find my child's bag missing off their peg, checked the other pegs with the teacher to make sure it had not been knocked off then put on a random peg..

Means a parent has taken my child's spare clothes bag? The parents are not allowed in the cloakroom at pick up the children are brought out by their teacher and individually handed over to a parent with any extra info needed passed on, the teachers gather the children and their belongings...

So surely the bag could of only gone missing at a drop off as that's the only time you can go into a cloakroom which means an afternoon child's parent has stolen my child's spare clothes and his bag?

Providing this is not a complete accident made by a teacher
Who an earth would steal a 4year olds belongings??? Or if it was an accident why has a parent not rang the school to say they have the wrong bag???

My daughter (Year One) has managed to lose TWO logoed school sweatshirts since going back last Wednesday.

They are not in the cloakroom, the class Lost Property box or the main school Lost Property box. They are not under any benches or behind radiators in the cloakroom/toilets/classroom. I have checked all of these places myself.

They were new for the start of this term. They are permanent-marker named in three different places, not only on the labels which can easily be cut out. If they don't turn up in a week I will HAVE to buy TWO new ones (we have four in total as her twin attends the same school, one each to wear and one each to be in the wash at any given time).

Despite the cost to me I would NOT keep another child's sweatshirt (or ANYTHING!) just because mine was lost/taken. I DO check the names inside their uniform before I put it in the wash and the two occasions something that wasn't theirs came back (PE kit) I returned it, clean, the next day. Why does putting someone else in the bad position you are in, make it right?? It doesn't.

In Reception - and between the two of them - I think we only lost one sweatshirt and it was getting pretty scratty anyway so.... >.> Other things that were "lost" turned up after a few days. Hopefully this will happen with these sweatshirts... fingers crossed

disagree with the logo debate.
Our school sweatshirts (logo) are about £8
pretty much every child has one
pretty much all the rest of everyone's uniform is asda/tesco basics

It still gets stolen and still goes missing.

Worst I heard was a poster on here that said she knew a mum who regularly trawled the lost property, found clothes to fit her dc, took then and cut the names out. Saw the lost property as free clothing!!

I write their names in marker pen in their shoes too. So as soon as they are off you can see their name in huge letters.

Almost everything we have lost has turned up eventually, and DD's poor teacher last year spent half her life returning DD's possessions - she said in a class of 12,if she found something abandoned, there was a 90% chance it was DD's (she did thank me for naming everything so clearly though ) . Funnily enough, DC's school has no issue with safeguarding wrt names on the outside of clothes. All PE kit has to be named on the outside (with name tape, not embroidered, although I do know of schools which mandate that, making it impossible to hand things down) - I have special big name tapes for the purpose. Teachers say DC will "borrow" games kit, and this way they can spot culprits without having to check name tapes. Things still end up in random lockers though - generally when the boys have been told to tidy the locker room. Several of DS's things have been kindly laundered by other parents and have reappeared in his locker on a Monday morning.

If the spare clothes bag has been stolen OP it's a shame it wasn't full of peed on clothes! That would teach them not to steal

I no Mandy I keep thinking that would be funny!! Or poo'd on!!

Well the school day has finished and no one has handed in his bag, well school day finished at 3:15, I don't think it will be there tomorrow morning.

If I have to buy new I will be one of those annoying parents who demand the teacher also make sure that is brought out with my child as I'm not trusting them anymore

I think if the school had to replace all stolen"missing" uniform they would soon clamp down and be checking labels etc

wickedbitch - I agree about it being stealing and am shocked at some parents. But knowing the chaotic life some kids lead I can also believe that no-one actually notices because they just don't care at all.

Our PTA does a second hand uniform sale. At the end of every term the school makes a big effort to get rid of lost property, laying it all out for parents to see etc etc and then what is left is given to us for the sale. It is one form entry school, around 200 kids and we get a huge box. Some is coats, (how do you not notice if your child's winter coat is missing?) and most of it is school logo sweatshirts and cardis. We try very hard to find a name, but the vast majority are simply un-named.

I help out at school and in the new reception class this week, most of the jumoers/cardis I picked up to return to kids were un-named.

At the end of the year the cloakrooms were cleared and we had all the stuff. Either we took it for the sale or school put it in the bin. (so we took it to the charity shop)

There were 6 complete swimming kits, good backpack, swim trunks and towel, all left behind, last swimming lesson 2 weeks before the end of term. All went to charity shop.

My son lost two sweatshirts at the end of last term. We searched everywhere. Funnily enough, one turned up today, in the cloakroom, the sewn in label has been cut out but the sharpie in various other places still identifies it as his.

I am annoyed, as I had planned to pass his sweatshirts down to his brother and had to buy two new ones instead. Also lost brand new hat when it was sunny last year.

I agree with previous poster who said don't send anything nice, I go to ASDA for hats / scarves / gloves / coats for the winter.

I do not expect teachers to search the school for stuff. They have better things to do.

I write stolen from then the children's names ,so far so good.

Several times my DS has come home with wrong jumper but I might not notice until I'm putting it away after being laundered. Each time I've texted the relevant mum who is suitably vague, almost reluctant to swap back. Almost every time they say they didn't know who to return to and when we do the swap the item is unwashed, unironed and the label ripped out. Presumably they'd seen the label, thought they weren't going to return it and torn the label out.

I find that a bit odd.

We had coatgate at nursery. Dd and another girl had same coat except Id sewn her high vis vest to hers because she bikes. Name in huge letters in two places on coat. Got her home from school no vest and coat ripped and no name inside so the next day went in search of the other coat. Turns out the dad had liked our coat better and swore it was his even though he had had to cut the vest off it (which he denied).Spectacular row in playground ! He spent all year calling me a coat thief.

More often than not, when we have had to give a child a change of clothes ,for whatever reason, or have "loaned" a coat because they were inapppropriately dressed for a trip out or whatever, those items do not not find their way back to school!

If it was me, (and it has been ,when my DS2 was young) I would wash ,dry and return the next day. But unfortunately our stock of spare clothes has dwindled to next to nothing because things do not get returned. Sometimes it is very difficult when a child has an 'accident' to find items that fit. I've had to put boy's pants on a girl, which she absolutely hated, because all the girls pants had disappeared.

Let's put it this way. Do you ever lose things/do things ever go missing in your house? Multiply the amount of people by 6. Then add the 30ish parents too and you'll no longer wonder why things go missing.

I get blamed lots for missing things as a teacher, as if I should be personally responsible for each and every jumper. Nope I'm responsible for the children themselves.

I don't blame the teacher, I blame who ever has stolen it... It's not been returned no one has called the school to say they have it, and the teachers are good at giving the right bags to the right child... I fully believe a parent of the afternoon class has taken it, we shall see however but if its not back by Friday we shall be buying a whole new uniform and the spare clothes bag will come home every single day and I'm thinking of getting our surname stitched into the collar/waistband of the clothes, and its going to be stored inside his actual backpack too, so it does not look like we have money to waste replacing the items so hopefully his not targeted again if it is a thief

Don't bother stitching in the name, it will just get ripped out. Use an indelible pen, and write in BIG letters in several places. I also put initials on the outside of P.E kit etc. We have kept all our stuff for over a year now - amazing!

Even embroidered ? Like proper letter per letter stitched straight into the clothes? Hate thiefs!! Make every bugger else's life hard grrr

Anyone who took out embroidery would leave a hole in the garment, surely? (I realise some of you are dealing with a level of thievery that I have never encountered, but still...)

Sorry lamp but I will still be very hacked off if they have used his brand new spare clothes for another child, I have never given permission for my child's clothes to be handed out to who ever parent cannot be bothered... And I certainly would not want the underwear back used!! And considering I have to give consent for them to wipe my dc bum should my dc ask, fill out numerous forms to do with photos/possessions/twitter/Facebook/church/ice cream days/pet days/parent dinner days/tree climbing/messy play suits etc

The school also have said in every letter about uniform that there should be a spare set and that in the event that the spare is used already or just not there they will be placed in school spares (they changed the uniform last year so it would be the old design left overs) and I was told today should my dc have an accident today while his kit is "missing" the school have plenty of uniform to change my dc in too.

That's taking the piss! At least preschool had random jelly shoes? Crocs whatever that of the child wet/lost their pair and their spare they would send them home in these shoes..

Teacher should of just for the office to ring mum/dad saying x needs her trainers bringing in as her shoes have broken