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Coat gone 'missing' from pre school

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lulubells · 26/11/2015 08:42

My daughters coat has mysteriously dissappeared from her nursery. The nursery say a parent or someone by have taken it home by accident. I'm totally WTF! I've written her name in it so fingers crossed it come back. Anyone else have any experience of this. I'm livid.

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JimmyGreavesMoustache · 26/11/2015 11:06

dd2 (then three) swapped shoes with another kid at preschool
she was collected by MIL that day and proudly showed MIl her "new glittery shoes" as they walked home. poor MIL was none the wiser.

I got a call to my mobile at 5.45 from the nursery saying that they were frantically looking for this kid's shoes, and might dd2 have taken them by accident...I found them on the rack in the hall, and dd2 was very cross at being made to swap them back.

UnderTheGreenwoodTree · 26/11/2015 11:06

Yes it happens often. DS's school fleece spent a whole term in a class-mates hall cupboard, apparently. The mum only found it when she had a sort out.

I was a bit miffed, but hid it for the sake of good relations.

A spare coat is essential IMO. Naming things doesn't seem to make any difference.

TheVeryThing · 26/11/2015 11:07

Yes, that's what they do here - children wear school tracksuits and trainers on PE days.
I can't imagine how much stuff my disorganised, daydreaming seven year old would have lost by now if he had to get changed at school.

Yokohamajojo · 26/11/2015 11:10

My DS2 lost his cool hat last winter, just put it down as one of those things, but yesterday a boy in his class had the same hat! I would love to check it to see if it is ours, it was labelled but it may not be!

ceebie · 26/11/2015 11:10

lists that's hilarious!!!

DD is 6 and her glasses case has been missing for weeks. So have the glasses cases of the handful of other children with glasses in her class. It evenutally came home yesterday; apparently the mum of one of the little girls discovered a stash of glasses cases at home! No idea why.

DD only has two school jumpers, one of which went missing for weeks at the end of last school year. A note went out to parents asking everyone to check labels before the school holidays to make sure everyone had their own stuff - and right enough, it came back to us. A girl in year 3 had it. It takes other parents AGES to work out that they have the wrong belongings.

A coat going missing in winter is very annoying indeed though.

reni2 · 26/11/2015 11:11

TBF at nursery the teachers often dress the kids. Picked up mine once: "Why are you wearing a yellow coat?" "Sarah (teacher) made me". This might be how your dd's coat went missing, if it was at all similar to the one the other child had, parents might just have gone home with it. My DH would not notice a swap unless it was neon orange or something.

ceebie · 26/11/2015 11:13

Also a friend's Mum said she'd found a pair of DD's pants in her house and would return them. How did she leave her pants behind??? I don't remember her coming home without pants at any stage...

TreadSoftlyOnMyDreams · 26/11/2015 11:20

School tracksuits and trainers every day at primary sounds like a blinding idea to me.

I am deeply impressed at lists. How could the staff not have checked when they have one shivering child though admittedly while they have probably seen it all before, that a child could be that absent minded wouldn't occur to me.

DD does regularly forget to put knickers on in the morning if she dresses herself though. Despite their position ON TOP of her clothes laid out in the order they need to go on in.

I've just labelled everything at least twice as a deterrent to light fingered parents who would have to remove several name tags. I am considering just labeling the outside of everything in some fashion. Gloves are already labelled almost on the knuckles

HearTheThunderRoar · 26/11/2015 11:24

These are very funny stories

Unfortunately I have nothing to add as DD went to a mufti primary school where they don't get changed for PE other than DD once came home with 2 pairs of togs once after school swimming.

jelliebelly · 26/11/2015 11:28

YABU to be livid op but YANBU to be annoyed! My ds is 10 and sporty - he is forever coming home missing clothes or sports kit or shoes - he also regularly comes home with other boys stuff - as long as it's named it finds its way back eventually!

moosemama · 26/11/2015 11:49

Ds1's coat went missing when he was in Reception ... he got it back just before he left Y6. Strangely enough, it didn't fit him anymore!

Apparently it was found down behind the unit that holds all the FS reading books. It was a massive, built-in unit with only a tiny gap at one corner and the teacher that returned it said the only way it could have found it's way to where it was jammed, was if someone deliberately 'helped it'.

I remember being disproportionately upset when it went missing, as he was my first dc to start school and he looked lovely in that coat.

Katedotness1963 · 26/11/2015 11:57

Check the schools lost property. I was always amazed at the amount of stuff that was there, some of it never claimed.

LittleLionMansMummy · 26/11/2015 12:03

My nephew went on a school trip and came home with someone else's pillow (but lost his own), an odd sock and another child's tooth. Ds hasn't yet lost anything in reception but I think it's all par for the course when you have children.

honkinghaddock · 26/11/2015 12:03

Ds goes to special school where everyone in his class has 1:1. He still manages to come home with the wrong jumper.

SaucyJack · 26/11/2015 12:14

Another child's tooth?! Is he Ed Gein? That wins the thread.

I'm very pleased to say none of mine have ever come home from anywhere with another child's stolen body part.

MerryMarigold · 26/11/2015 12:20

Ds1 had lovely Next coat nicked (with name in). I bought it big to last and he has a younger brother who would inherit it. As it happened, it lasted a few months . It was definitely nicked as other stuff has disappeared for a bit and come back again. Sometimes kids take it by accident and then bring it in, or it gets left somewhere where no one sees it for a bit. But I looked for this coat over a period of 2 terms and it never turned up.

Get school stuff on ebay.

G1veMeStrength · 26/11/2015 12:25

Weeping at the limping child. Priceless!!!

Yes it is normal OP. Best get a spare charity shop coat, also handy for when they've rolled in mud!

reader108 · 26/11/2015 12:26

Ds at 6 getting changed after school club lost his school shoes clarkes £40 had them 2 weeks! One arrived on the doorstep 2 days later! Other one never made it home both named, wore trainers for 2 weeks till headteacher complained!
Also misplaced 2 named school polo shirts,1 named Pe shirt and 2 sweatshirts! All never found all sewed name tags in about £50 worth all in.

tbtc20 · 26/11/2015 12:30

I have 10 years between my two boys.

DS1 left Primary school and we had a three year gap before DS2 started.

DS2 had been in Reception for quite a while when he came out with a sweatshirt with DS1's name in it! It must have been in the lost property bin for over 3 years!

NAME LABELS WORK

I chucked the manky old thing in the bin BTW.

MerryMarigold · 26/11/2015 12:32

Reader, you've reminded me. Ds1 came home in YR with 2 left shoes! (Clarks, obv not the only one with them). I didn't realise till the next day when I saw shoes looked wrong and made him swap feet. They still looked wrong. Then realised. One of them was a size bigger! Luckily ds1 knew the child who had same shoes as him so was quickly rectified at school before going in.

WoodleyPixie · 26/11/2015 12:58

dd last year so yr4, came home without school shoes. They had had to take them off for an assembly and when they went to put shoes back on again hers weren't there. Not even another pair similar to hers were found. school sent a text as dd's had those clarks labels in so were named. about 4 weeks alter dd's shoes turn up. a lot more worn than hers (they were about a week old when they went missing) and with no name label. I suspect that the shoes returned are not dd's but the other girl had the same size feet and same shoe and the parent decided to keep the nicer newer pair.

ds2 is 13 and yr9, he is also 6'2" and a size 11 feet. He came home from school with dity pe kit, I washed it and when hanging it out noticed that the shorts looked tiny. They weren't his, they were something like a 22inch waist and went noway near him. still haven't had his shorts returned and I keep asking him to check whos wearing shorts several sizes too big and got changed next to him. They were labelled, two name tags sewn in and then sharpie surname on the waistband.

WeAllHaveWings · 26/11/2015 13:01

Yep, nursery and primary are a constant round of lost jackets, clothes, shoes, sometimes you get them back, most of the time not. As you get used to it you will get less livid.

Have very obvious name labels, and only send very cheap stuff into nursery/primary school. Keep the good stuff at home.

WoodleyPixie · 26/11/2015 13:03

oh and in junior school yr 5 or 6, ds2 was playing football, kicked the ball and one of his shoes came flying off and landed on the roof!! Due to health and safety the school said that they were not allowed to retrieve it! That did make me cross. (not the kicking off of the shoe but that no one was allowed to climb a ladder and retrieve it from the gutter) I even offered to climb the ladder and sign a waiver myself.

Shirkingfromhome · 26/11/2015 13:09

It happened to my DS at nursery, and the same coat turned up with a name tag ironed on where I had written my ds's name. Bought a new jacket and after much harrumphing I forgot about it. Two months later it turned up in lost property.

Check everywhere OP, it could be a silly mistake. Agree with PP's too; save the nice stuff for home, you'll care less!

WeAllHaveWings · 26/11/2015 13:14

ds and his pals use their coats for goalposts at school and leave then in the playground/rain at least once a term.

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