Coat gone 'missing' from pre school

[lulubells]

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.

I 100% feel your pain, in the first term of last school year my son lost 4, I repeat FOUR named school jumpers. and not even the plain bargain supermarket ones, all of them were the more expensive embroidered with the logo ones.

To make it more confusing he is pretty much the smallest kid in the smallest year group, so nobody else would have been able to fit into his teeny jumpers!

There was also the time when he came home WEARING two pairs of trousers, and several occasions where he has come home either sockless or wearing only 1 sock. not to mention the number of vests we've lost.

he has a tendency to collect PE shorts though, I always return them whenever possible but sometimes they're not named!

Children and the whereabouts of their assorted belongings are a blooming nightmare!

My daughter had a very distinctive bright orange buggy when she was at nursery, with the top of the brake pedal missing. One day, when I went to get it from the shed at the nursery, in its place was an identical but almost brand new buggy. This one had its straps adjusted to about two feet too long for my daughter. I live about a mile from the nursery so HAD to use it - but did speak to the nursery staff first. Our buggy eventually turned up a few days later - but I do wonder how they didn't notice the missing part, and how long they must have spent struggling to do up the straps which must have been way too tight for their child. (Gosh, don't they grow fast on nursery meals...???) I was more perplexed than livid.

I once had the whole class turn out their PE bags when a sock went missing, but to no avail. The next day, the boy who'd lost the sock told me he'd found it up his trouser leg when he undressed to go to bed!

Generally we manage to return labelled items to their rightful owners but it always amazes me how many things are not labelled at all. Most of our children seem to prefer identifying their sweatshirts by sniffing them!

A friend's son came home in Reception wearing two right shoes (they were the same Clarks shoes but different sizes) - presumably another child was walking around in two left shoes.

My son also brought home someone else's pants, I only discovered when they had gone through our wash.

DD1, aged 9, lost her only official school cardigan within the first 2 weeks of term. Despite it being labelled and me and her searching everywhere for it, it didn't turn up so I assume someone has nicked it. One day when looking in the lost property yet again I found a cardigan the same size but with no name so took it home and put her name in it, on the basis that if you don't label school uniform you deserve for it to go missing. So that one is hers now. (I didn't tell her, I just said I found hers)

I saw a boy at senior school put his shoes on top of the car when he was being picked up.
The driver set off, obviously unaware of the situation and the shoes flew off the car.
Another student ran after the car waving the shoes in the air but both the driver and the student were blissfully unaware.

I sat and watched and thought they will never know what happened to his shoes.

I also had a conversation with another parent who was very posh.
She told me that if her d's brought home someone else's jumper she cut the tag off aNd kept it!!!

I embroider DS's name on the outside but on the hem or similar so that you can't spot it from a distance and attempt to kidnap him - or I just do his initials.

Not that ot makes any difference. No one could try and lure him away as they'd end calling him by the wrong name due to him having another child's jumper on, three sizes too small!

He once came home wearing two pairs of trousers at once. No idea how the other kid managed to get home in winter minus trousers. He also went through a phase of forgetting to take his old pants off before putting fresh ones on, so I'd discover he had three pairs in at once. Thankfully all his own though!

The school Head spotted me going through the lost property bin for the third time in a week and said, 'If one fits, just take it - that's what everyone else does!' which explained a lot. I didn't want to take an old bobbly jumper though, I wanted my son's brand new pristine one back!

My older son (9) has worked this one out for himself. He now refuses to take a coat on the basis that it won't get lost if he doesn't take it.

I label everything and my older son has managed to bring home unlabelled jumpers so no chance of returning them to their rightful owner.

Do you know what aggravates me? My 4yo ds came home in a manky old off white (more gray), out of shape Asda polo shirt instead of his own pristine new white polo shirt with the school logo on. It had his name label inside. I dutifully took the polo shirt back in as it wasn't ours - but of course the other parent didn't bother to return the favour. Boils my piss. Should have kept it for him to wear every pe day thinking of it now.

He's had a coat disappear too recently and came home without one, it's not on and basically stealing.

No joy yet. She goes to a small nurserys preschool so theres not loads of kids. We've searched and searched and it's not been found. They've put a notice up asking if it's been taken home by accident. The coat is a quite distinctive pattern so fingers crossed it turns up next week!

Penygirl - your post about children preferring to identify their sweatshirts by sniffing them has reminded me of a post by another teacher. She had a child in her class who could name the owner of any sweatshirt in their class by sniffing it - she used to sniff her way through the week's lost property, reuniting it with its owners!

My dd (age 7) lost her socks this week, she didn't even seem to be aware she had none on till i pointed it out to her - it's freezing!
Like the others have said it will happen regularly, don't buy expensive stuff.

My Dad loves to tell the tale of a rather irate parent knocking at the door saying his daughters coat was missing from the cloak room she had brought the only coat left home. He was demanding the right coat back having tracked it through the name and address label stitched inside. Would not believe my Dad till he actually showed him a photo of me. I was in my twenties and married!!!! I had worn that duffle coat at junior school. It had been sent to a local jumble sale years ago.

SDT I obviously need to encourage this skill in one of my pupils, it would save a lot of hassle! 😄

My DD brought the wrong school photos home once. She took them back but we never did get hers. I still wonder if someone, somewhere has a picture of my DD on their mantelpiece. Bizarre.