P.E kits

[Peanutbutterjelly1]

Hi everyone just wanted to get people's opinions on this.

Today I was speaking with my best friend who has a 10 yr old dd and she mentioned that her dds p.e kit went missing on the Friday before half term her dd has autism but attends a mainstream school so she has a 1 to 1 with her at all times so me and my friend were baffled as to how this one kit could of gone missing.

We asked her dd about it and she then mentioned that sometimes other students from other classes borrow p.e kits from the other class so their teacher goes out to the pegs and hands out other children's p.e kit to those who dont have theirs. Aibu to think this is totally unacceptable she also mentioned the p.e kit it usually out back immediately after the class meaning that the child it belongs to will either have to wear a dirty p.e kit during their next p.e class or take it home to be washed when someone else has worn it.

The whole thing really didn't seem right to me. In some cases girls as young as 10 are beginning periods and their bodies are getting ready to change. If the school want communial p.e kits surely they should provide them and then they wash them. I really would not be happy with another child using my dds p.e kit without permission and i definately wouldn't be happy if it didn't come back. I get this a bit of a non issue just interested to know what others think.

Many thanks for reading.

This should not happen. At all. At my school the children take their p e kits in on the day they need it and carry it round with them all day, so no one else can use it....still go missing mind!!!

Thank you tabby I have to say I never recalled another child using my p.e kit not even friends from other classes I do however remember trying to skip p.e by doing the I forgot it trick and i was made to fish sometbing out of lost property (not envy) I never tried that trick again!

If that’s what’s actually happening that’s pretty bad. But I don’t think it’s so uncommon for schools to have ‘spare’ kits made up from lost property etc. Is your friend’s dd sure about what’s happening (and how would she know)? It may seem like a bit of a non issue, but as well as the ick and hygiene issues, that sort of policy is likely to result in a lot more lost kit, which is a cost on parents and could be financial hardship for some.

Yes very sure that's what is happening best friends dd is very aware and said her p.e kit was passed back to her a few weeks ago after another student used it. The school aren't sneaky about it apprently they let the children know the kits are being used bf dd didn't think it was an issue as her kit hadn't gone missing before.

I discovered two weeks ago that sharing kit out happens in our school, although it appears to be voluntary, it helps explain why I have such a random assortment of other DC's kit come home in the pe bags. Maybe the school doesn't have funds for spare kit?

I still think its pretty gross.

Maybe the school doesn't have funds for spare kit?

That’s not really the point. If they don’t have funds for school trip transport they don’t get to just take your car without asking.

I agree with you Peanut. If I were your friend I’d be raising this with the school and possibly the parent governors (as a more general issue of what sorts of things does the governing body consider when it approves policy, discusses budgeting difficulties, etc,).

I was a bit taken aback too but my DC do get a say in it and it is their friends in class.
Maybe there needs to be a fundraising drive for spare kits at school, that would be a more hygienic answer.

This could explain where my sons PE kit has went.

That school do seem ridiculis.. the other day the showed the minions dvd after school dressed it up as a school event and charged each child £5 to watch it wouldn't mind but it was quite an old minions film. That school is always asking for money.

Sorry for my typos i am on a new phone.

When my son was at nursery I picked him up and saw another boy in his spare trousers. (All the children kept a full set of spare clothes at school in case of accidents. I knew these were my son's because of a paint mark on them - I'd purposefully put them in his spare bag because he never needed them and the previous term had grown out of his "spares" without ever wearing them.)

I asked a nursery worker and they said they often borrowed clothes from other bags if a child didn't have a spare. Well my child didn't have a spare now! A couple of days later I looked in his bag and they were there but I don't think they had been washed.

I tied up the top of the (drawstring) spares bag really tightly so it would be a pain to open after that and DS's were never used again lol!

Mumpoints that's a good idea. It's just cheeky. To be fair all of this really is none of my business at all my dd is only 20 months old but its my best friends child and i feel invested I care about her. My dd is due to start pre school in Sept and i wont be happy to see another child wondering around in dds spare clothes nor will I be happy to see my dd come out in clothes that don't belong to her but when you buy this stuff to make your children comfortable you expect it to stay with your child.. I dont begrudge a child eating but if a child got sent to school without lunch would the teacher riffil through another dc pack lunch and make them up a lunch out of That? Its beyond cheeky. Of course I would have more sympathy in that situation and would never want to see a young child go hungry.

Cheeky and gross. I'd be fuming

My dd's school keep a supply of lost property. She didn't have her kit a few weeks ago and got given a t-shirt out of lost property to wear