to think £200.00 on a school uniform is shocking

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DC1 starts school in September he has just turned 4.
the only uniform that can be purchased from the non school uniform shop is shirt and trousers. He even has to wear a tie.

The rest even pe kit is branded with their logo. Its all come in at nearly £200.00. I only ordered 1 pe kit fingers crossed he doesn't lose them :)
Im guessing its only going to get more expensive. as next year he needs to wear a blazer. I think I will be wrestling him to get him dressed every morning :)

*got

You have my sympathy OP. We've just paid out similar for DS starting reception, and I doubt it'll last the year. We have sized up, but the logo's polo shirt at £9.99 each are white, and DS is a proper mud magnet. On top of the usual garb, his scgool even asks for a set of full waterproof to be kept in school, so we effectively need two coats!

This is my DC (13 yo)
Shoes £135
Jumper £35
PE trainers £100
Jacket £65
PE joggers £20
PE tshirt £13
Trousers x7 £50
Shirts x5 £50

Also non private school

I wonder what would happen if parents had a national anti logo strike and just said 'our children are not being branded any longer'

It would save us all a fortune!!!

Honestly £200 is actually reasonable.

My daughter is in 3rd year at private all girls high school and 200 quid is a drop in the ocean. My 2 sons at state school uniforms are about the 200 mark each though.

I've given up hoping to Clarks for expensive school shoes

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Sorry - typo - going to clarks...

I measure my kids using a home measure I bought from Amazon and buy online. M&S this year do half sizes and wide/narrow fittings

It's been said before but you can't be sent home from a state primary for this. I know that lots are fussy, a relative's Catholic state school child looked like she went to a private school. Personally I resent paying £14 for our school jumper (the rest for wherever) and we usually get by with one! But then I went to an v good primary where we didn't wear uniform so can't see the point.

£200? . DS is starting reception and the only thing that needs a logo is jumper which is £7. The school even gave each child starting a pack of white polo tshirts.

Could mumsnet potentially get behind us on petitioning against this? It gets brought up every year. Just shelled out £40 for a blazer for an 8 year old in a shit local school.

"Just move schools" isn't an option unless I want to drive over 30 miles to a school which allows supermarket jumpers.

Yes, good idea for a Mumsnet campaign,
Ther are two issues (at least) IMO
*the cost- obviously
*exclusion- some families will choose different schools because they can't afford it or, more insidiously, because they feel that the school is not for the likes of them.
Blatant selection IMO, particularly as it's practically impossible to get second hand

I'd agree to non uniform!

Only logo is the blazer!

Juniors insisted on logo jumper logo tshirts logo PE tshirt logo book bag
Logo water bottles!!

It's the junior schools where uniform should not be compulsory- it should be practical

Local school here wanted to change the tshirts colour, put it to the vote (rainbow assortment came back)
So they said 'any color' polo shirt (cheap practical) you don't particularly notice

That is crazy!

I haven't even spent that much on ds's secondary uniform, including blazer.

I approcate it's decent value if you work it out at price per wear, but if you've got three or more kids in school how the fuck do you manage it in one hit?

We had to shell out similar for state school iniform. They do have a second hand option too. All jumpers, sports kit etc has logo even the school shirts they wear underneath. Just the trousers and navy joggers Plus shoes I can get elsewhere ... and then he grows and we need more!! A friend who has her son private had To shell out literally thousands.

I only get logos on the jumpers, which tesco do. Asda for the rest. Shoes are probably dearest things I buy-Clarks outlet.

£200 for a year assuming no replacements required (ha ha ha!) is slightly over £1 per day. Even if they're wearing three or four things at a time the "price per wear" actually isn't that great.

Glad I have three the same sex ... though there's been a minor change since my 6yo started school so some things we've saved from DC1 and/or DC2 won't be usable for DC3 and are therefore obsolete. Logo sewn on so can't even go to charity shop.

Out of interest, what would happen if you couldn't afford it?

Fair point Miaow. I've been bullied into spending £400 on a substandard but exclusive school uniform for a state school in the past. I was on maternity leave and effectively had no income. I don't know what happens if all the schools around you have uniforms and you conscientiously object. Presumably they would keep sending your child home (who would feel mortified) and you would end up asking the local authority to find a school place somewhere without a uniform. As there are only about two schools left in Britain without uniforms I don't know what happens next if you don't happen to be near one.

I think the whole thing is ridiculous, out of. hand and needs legislating against. There is zero academic evidence uniform improves education apart from a tiny study looking at US charter schools and black girls from chaotic homes. Most of Europe manages just fine without them. We are blinded by rhetoric.

We went from paying about £50 for junior school uniform to over £400 for DS's secondary school uniform. I could barely breathe as I paid.

I had to buy PE pumps for dd in reception, she didn't wear them once, she even wore her shoes on sports day. My friends dd had to have a tracksuit she didn't wear. Really bloody annoying

It's true, there is no real evidence it improves performance.