AIBU to email the school!

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DD1 has again lost her PE kit. I think (she says) it has been left in a classroom at some point. DD2 has also lost her PE kit, same story, left somewhere on school property never to be seen again.

So I am cross with DD1 as this is the fourth !! PE kit we have had to replace in three years of school. And DD2 has done the same. So yes I am cross with the girls but AIBU to think the school is partly at fault? I am wondering how their lost property system works if we cannot ever get anything back again.

I told dd1 I am going to email the school. She is horrified because she knows she is at fault. I can't afford another full kit again.

DD2 is very laid back which is also fueling my fire!

This was a constant issue at primary school. They'd swear blind they'd looked for lost stuff but it wasn't there. When I went to look in lost property 9/10 times the items were there.

Roll on Year 7 at high school, they lost 3 school jumpers, 1 sports hoodie, 1 pair of trainers, 2 school shirts, 1pair school shorts, 1 pair of trousers. countless pairs of sports and football socks. Mobile phone (cheapo one) lost and retrieved various times, school bus pass lost and retrieved twice.

It's a constant, as others have said it's been surprising how quickly stuff has been found when threatened that replacement would come out of pocket/birthday money. But that doesn't always work. Mine nicked 2 school jumpers out of lost property with other kids' names on at one point and swore they were theirs! They were made to take them straight back!

Yesterday the mobile phone was lost, left on bus and member of the public handed it back today. Also just found out that ipod bought for christmas was smuggled into school today..Grrrrr!

Sometimes we have to resort to daily checking of school bags and weekly kit inspection. I really don't have time for that level of checking up. Ho hum...

My children's secondary school encourages parents to get their child's initials ironed on to their official PE uniform. It's a service run by the school uniform shop so they all match. It makes it easy to see whose kit is whose in the changing rooms and also discourages kids from helping themselves to someone else's kit. On the down side, it does make it difficult to pass on to anyone else when it's grown out of.

Serin that's genius! Actually at our primary school they did finally bring in a policy of kids attending school in PE kit the day PE was on and just wear that all day instead of uniform. That did improve things a lot.

I would get your daughters to do what someone else has obviously done with theirs, go to lost property and take some kit, any kit that will fit them. I think the school are partly to blame if your daughters kit is named then they should be called out of assembly (do they still have them!) and given her kit back.

Ok so firstly get her a fluorescent PE bag. Secondly get these and stick them on anything. Best labelling around

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Ditzyprint - yes they do. They receive a lunchtime detention for improper kit.

There is no way I would encourage her to steel someone else's kit

Or don't replace it and let her get detention after detention till Easter

I think the school are partly to blame if your daughters kit is named then they should be called out of assembly (do they still have them!) and given her kit back. - this is secondary school, possibly over 1000 pupils! How long would the assembly take if they had to call out the names of everyone who had lost property that day/week?! Not to mention the amount of time (office staff/teachers?) spent looking through the stuff for name labels? And the inevitable scenario of calling out Joe Bloggs name except he hasn't lost anything so refuses to collect because the item has now been passed on to his younger brother, James Bloggs, who doesn't hear his name called so doesn't stand up!

Not read the whole thread however at my school we quite often ping our whole staff emails asking if they've seen a particular lost item and they quite often turn up. They usually get left in a classroom and it stays where it is till someone asks for it. I sometimes email out saying something has been left in my room.

It's totally the kids' fault however. I remind my classes to check before they leave but I have enough on my plate without making sure the hundreds of kids I interact with have everything they need!

1 inch Cash's name tags sewn on the outside of games kit

Still unexpected,
not long once this has happened a few times if I know teenagers they will soon remember their stuff for fear of being called out in front of everyone.

Mine are in a large primary school and I find labelling everything with their class as well as name (in biro) means anything left outside/in the library/in the wrong lunchbox crate etc usually gets itself back to the right classroom, at which point it can be reunited with the dc and they get told off, so win:win.

Please don't email the school. My colleague was on the end of months of phone calls and emails about a pair of shoes that went missing during PE. The child told the mother that they had checked lost property and allegations of theft were made, it went on and on. In education we all have contact and responsibility for dozens of dc. In the end my exasperated colleague invited the mother in to check lost property herself and there the shoes were. The records said that they were handed in the day that dc had lost them!

She lost it, not the school. A lost property system works on the basis that you might get lucky and someone might hand it in. It's not the school's responsibility to make sure lost items are returned to owners.

My daughter has lost endless things since starting school! Luckily they are t rigid on logos so 2 pe kits and 2 full uniforms are about £25 from asda. She's only 4 and finding her feet so I've not told her off. Also I've checked lost property, I'm 100% sure ppl are taking them but what can you do? Definately not schools fault it's my ditsy daughter and the mystery uniform swiper!