to think school would look after uniforms....

[iliketosleep]

As anyone knows, uniform for 3dc isnt cheap! but over £100 later they are all kitted out for school....

4 weeks later dd1 comes home with a big hole in cardigan from name badge, dd2s cardigan was taken by another child despite it having her name in and also whiteboard marker all over her shirt which wont come off (i've tried!!) and ds who has what i can only think is glue but looks like big grease marks on his jumper that wont come out


they look like scruffs

[iliketosleep]

no worries no its a big hole that cant even be sewn up looks like i gotta go shopping again in the half term...

[shimmy]

oh sorry - sounded like you meant a pin hole. A 5p piece is a different matter.

[iliketosleep]

The school have fleece jackets with the logo (£20) but very good quality, the rest is rubbish

[iliketosleep]

im sounding unreasonable because my daughter has a hole the size of a 5 pence piece in a 4 week old cardigan from a badge that she doesnt needas everyone knows everyones name, there are only 12 to a class.......


didnt realise sorry, ill stop

[bobsmum]

iliketosleep - our school had this problem with naff quality uniform - bobbling/shrinkage and just generally crap and polyestery.

Last year a group of parents researched the possibilities of changing suppliers and after a bit of consultation, the uniform has changed subtly and is fantastic quality but still reasonably priced.

We're phasing in the new uniform over the next year and everybody - parents and teachers - are really pleased with the new range.

As for the whiteboard marker - no solutions there I'm afraid.

[shimmy]

oh fgs, holes from name badges?! You really are sounding a little unreasonable now.

[OrmIrian]

Name badges are odd . DS#1 sometimes has a paper label with his name if they have a new TA in the class but otherwise not. His teacher knew all their names within a week in a class of 30. At least the school does something right

[iliketosleep]

ohi fully agree if it was mud and the pen really isnt an issue, the holes in jumpers from bloody pin badges with their names on that they have to wear makes me and yes lol the head does naff all!!

[iliketosleep]

dd is just gone 6 and was given a whiteboard pen........I dont even allow felt tips into the house as they get everywhere......wonder if dd drew on the walls or floor "by accident" they would complain or dd would get punished

[OrmIrian]

Your head does naff all! Wow! She must be super efficient then

[OrmIrian]

And just to add I don't hold the teachers responsible for keeping the kids clothes clean and in one piece. Hell, I didn't even hold my CM responsible for keeping them clean. A clean child is a child who probably hasn't had a good time IMO.

[iliketosleep]

i never said the teachers, i said the school maybe the head! I know she sits in her office all day doing naff all thinking up schemes of getting parents to pay out yet again..........

[OrmIrian]

Iliketosleep - our school has badged clothing for sale too. Not cheap! First time round I religiously bought the whole set to find that the colour faded on the red sweatshirts and the white polo shirts shrunk. So second time round I bought none of the badged stuff. DS#2 has one badged sweatshirt inherited from DS#1 as a spare but it's so battered now. Asda and Woollies are cheap enough that it doesn't matter so much when they damaged/lost. Annoying but not too painful.

I'm sure if you look at the older classes you will find that most of them do not have badged clothing. They won't be that different.

[TellusMater]

I think of my dc's school uniform as boiler suits really. If they get mucky, they get mucky. Can't see my children ever not looking like scruff though, however new and shiny their uniform

[shimmy]

sorry but I think yabu

teachers have a hundred million things to do every day - keeping your dcs' uniforms pristine are not one of them.

Most uniforms are pretty tough and withstand a great number of washes. Schools make sure that the children wear overalls for art and put discarded clothes in to a lost property box which it is your child's (and your) responsibility to check.

I would not want my children to go to a school where they didn't do messy activities or got told off for getting dirty. I also do not want my children's teachers spending a good 10 minutes at the beginning of every lesson reuniting lost clothes with careless owners.

Taking responsibility for yourself and your property is a good thing for children to learn.

[emj23]

DS has lost two lots of PE kit in the last five weeks. It's not in lost property and the school don't seem to give a toss that I have to keep going out and replacing it. I think that they should check that the class (five/six year olds) are putting everything back into their PE bags and hanging it back on their pegs, which clearly isn't being done. It also makes me cross because the chances are that another child has taken labelled items home and their parents haven't bothered ro return it. I'm not surprised you're fed up.

[Pixel]

Dd has worn plain sweatshirts or cardigans for the last couple of years of primary because I got fed up with the poor quality of the school logo ones and refused to buy any more. What's the point of having a uniform if by the end of one term all the children look like scruffs with their sweatshirts in various shades of blue from all the fading? I don't mind paying for sweatshirts for ds as his school has good quality ones that actually look good until they are more or less outgrown.
This year dd changed schools and I'd heard other people complaining about the sweatshirts. I went to an embroidery shop and got some good quality shirts done with the school logo. They are identical, no-one would suspect I hadn't bought them from the school but they actually worked out cheaper!

[puppydavies]

lol @artex shirts

[bookwormmum]

Airtex even

[bookwormmum]

I was miffed when the new head stipulated that the school trousers had to be grey (after I'd just purchased new black ones) and she was introducing a school PE shirt which had to be bought from the school. It should save the artex shirts a bit more though.

[Hulababy]

Fortunately we have had no problems with DD's uniform and it is all in really good nick - all the too small stuff is suitable for selling.

But the school do help with this. Part of the unoifrom includes:

1. an art apron - long sleeved type one - which is used for all messy craft type work
   
   
2. lunch apron/tabard - which protects mess from food
   
   
   I was a bit when I first saw uniform list but believe me they have saved us a lot of time (washing) and money!

[bookwormmum]

My dd came out minus her school cardigan on Weds and even I couldn't find it after searching the hall, corridors, lost property box and classroom. Someone's taken it home....

A few of the parents at the school exchange uniforms amongst themselves for younger siblings which seems to work pretty well. btw my dd's uniform probably costs me about £100 to kit her out totally (summer and winter plus PE kit, shoes, plimsolls, art and cookery aprons) which I think is pretty cheap for clothes she's going to wear for 40 weeks of the year, 5 days a week .

[iliketosleep]

they also use non washable paints which will come out after an hour in bleach but......grrrrr

[3littlebats]

andiem that is AWFUL - stealing in fact.