To not want my dd to stay in her PE kit all day?

[Dancergirl]

Dd is 8, Year 3. They have PE once a week on a Thursday. The arrangement is that the PE kit is kept at home, they wear it to school on Thursday and go home still wearing it. PE is the penultimate lesson of the day, then they have one more lesson then home (although dd stays for Art club after school so I don't collect her till 5pm).

Apparently there 'isn't enough time' for them to change. I don't really like the idea of them staying in the same clothes all day especially when the weather's warm. They get hot and sticky during the day and then have to wear the same clothes for PE and then keep them on for another couple of hours (in dd's case).

Is this the norm in primary schools these days? AIBU?

how "sweaty" do 8 yo's actually get, bearing in mind that normally she would be in the same uniform clothes "all day"

Sadly, my 8 year old dd has started to get whiffy under her arms after exercise, it's not uncommon these days.

Wrt good hygiene after exercise, kids in secondary school don't even have showers these days just a quick burst of Lynx , not like when we were forced to shower after games . Kids in primary school barely break a sweat .

So, you're saying when the kids have done PE they stay in their kit until collection at the end of the day? I don't see anything wrong with that :/

They're running about just as much at lunch and play as they are in PE and children don't sweat like adults.

My childrens school do this. I find it annoying because each of the kids have PE in a different day and then theres the weekly issue of missing PE t-shirt/shorts to find. Then i had to buy trainers because my kids found plimsols uncomfortable to wear all day.

I haven't heard of it before, but I don't think it's a bad idea - I wish school uniform was a unisex, multifunctional play suit affair anyway!

But to all the posters saying 8 year olds don't get smelly and sweaty, um, some do! Hormone surges kick in at different ages.

Seems extremely sensible to me.

Saves 1/2 hour messing about getting changed, having to have separate changing places for mixed groups, all the faffing about with lost clothes and so on. They're eight no one cares if they're a bit wiffy, they're not fashion plates anyway.

My 8 year old does PE in her uniform, they only change their shoes and take their sweatshirts off. I actually thought that was standard in primary school, I didn't realise other schools had a PE kit at that age.

Anyway, since I'm used to DD doing PE in her actual uniform and I've never given it a second thought it all feels like a non issue to me.

If she's getting whiffy(what sort of a word is that?) under the arms she needs anti perspirant.

YABU.

What a silly thing to fuss about.

Op you are looking for a problem where there isn't one....why? What's the real reason behind all this?

On the days there isn't PE they wear the same clothes all day .

Our school is very sensible. All children wear PE kits one day a week as they all go swimming. Polo top, joggers and sweatshirt are much easier than pinafores/kilts/dresses or shirts and ties to change in and out of for the little ones.

You'd have had a fit, OP, this week in our school. All pupils are wearing their kits all day every day as it is health and fitness week. I managed to wash dcs kit every night clean for the next day and he didn't melt. He doesn't smell yet and even if he did we have soap..

I haven't heard of that, but it sounds a great idea.

As a mum I wouldn't have the hassle of lost kit, and I'd see when dd needed new plimsolls without relying on her to remind me.

As a teacher, my whole lesson would be used for PE instead of half of it for changing, children wouldn't need reminding to take PE bags home, cloakrooms would be less cluttered, I wouldn't have to try and identify random bits of unnamed PE kit that were left scattered around the classroom.

As for the hygiene issue, children have been coming in from their lunchbreak pretty hot and sweaty this week - and they keep those clothes on for the rest of the day.

I can see plenty of pros and not a lot in the way of negatives.

We have a long PE lesson at our school. A very decent amount of exercise plus swimming.

Ours have PE on one day where they take their kit in and change, then games on another day, where they were their kit all day - including clubs. It's never been an issue here. I've got them scattered in different years and it's the same for them all since we first started at the school.

This is how my kids primary does it. I think it's great - they tried the changing for PE and after and it was a real faff. Took some of them 15 minutes each time to change, there isn't the room to facilitate boys and girls changing seperately without using the toilets. My dds are 7 and 10. They're cooler, comfier in their PE stuff which is just a polo shirt, shorts/joggers and I think their trainers are more comfortable than their school shoes tbh.

I've never seen children break into a sweat in a PE lesson! they get more sweaty running around the field at lunch time!

It is the norm at my dc's school. Eldest wears kit at least 3 days a week.

Interestingly, the school have said that they felt removing a lot of the changing times reduced bullying type behaviour as that was a prime time that happened.

If you wash the kit each time they wear it then I really don't think it is a problem.

Its perfectly normal here, all the schools do it. YABU

When we lived overseas in a v hot country, my kids wore their PE kit to school on PE days. Didn't think it was odd at all, in fact I wish the UK school they returned to had the same policy. Instead, in the UK, they have to bring their PE kit in at the start of term, and it stays there, unwashed, until the holidays. I think that's minging.

Tbh, it's a better system than the one the dses' schools used - where PE kit stayed at school all the time, only coming ho e at half term or the holidays, and they changed into this crumpled, sweaty mess each time they had PE. Urghhhh!

At least this way your dd's PE kit is getting washed regularly!

I've not come across it before - but it sounds like a very sensible plan to me.
Very rare for Primary age children to be doing enough physical exercise in PE to get sweaty, even if they are one of the few that has started puberty - too much PE is all about "skills" and not about exercise I'm afraid.
You say it's last thing for her, so she doesn't have to sit around in a sweaty top all day then ~ if she is in after school care of some kind, you could give her a clean T-shirt to put on there is it really were an issue.

I can't believe the things some people find to worry about. This really does sound unbelievable precious. Is your dd bothered or is it only you that's upset? What's the worst that could happen if she does happen to wear slightly sweaty clothes all day?

At my kids' school they introduced all day wearing of PE kit last year and the vast majority of parents were overjoyed. It just makes so much sense! And one of my children is in year 6, and in the throes of puberty.

About as much of a non-issue as I've come across in my whole life!