Where to buy London Orotary uniform?

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Dear readers

Posting here for traffic

Already planning/ budgeting for secondary uniform

Where do you buy these? I see on website that a school shop is open 3 days a week after school for 1hr or so, but could not see a website for the provider or ability to purchase online

Also can the white shirts and grey trousers be brought from other retailers such as M&S/ Asda?

Please help a fellow mother out as I am getting nowhere fast!

@Dishwashersaurous

I just assumed that the op was feeling rather overwhelmed by the whole prospect and wanted a bit of moral as well as practical support

Yeah, you were nice, I was one of the dicks.

@SoupDragon

I see the dicks are out in force today.

Totally.

Amazing how people can spend time correcting spelling yet can't work out what type of school it is.

With the general cost of living rise right now and people knowing secondary uniform is expensive I don't think a parent worrying about it is all that odd!

@SoupDragon

I see the dicks are out in force today.

Aren’t they just. It must be exhausting tearing people down all day long!

Exactly, just trying to budget for the cost in advance

@Daffodils22

Unbelievable

I know. You can’t post in AIBU and expect to go away unscathed. It’s totally unreasonable

@Member786495

It’s the school the shadow cabinet try and get their kids into

Yes, so they can claim to be sending their children to a state school when in fact it’s so exclusive it may as well be private.

Don't worry about the school shop opening hours. You'll be given an appointment for a uniform fitting in plenty of time before September. Once you know the sizing you can then order online and either arrange for it to be delivered or for your child to pick it up from the shop at the end of the school day - the shop is in the school grounds. The women who run the shop are very experienced and efficient and also very helpful over the phone. Shirts, socks, shoes can all be from anywhere as long as they are the right colour, but go to the uniform appointment and they will give you all the information you need, including for house colours games kit etc.

It’s good you are the king ahead OP!

Blimey, £95 for a blazer, £29 for a jumper. Logo trousers £30, the prospectus says they have to use the official school bag.

It looks as if you might get away with Asda shirts, though!

Hopefully they will send you a detailed uniform policy and list with your Induction info.

@TheHoptimist you owe the OP an apology.

OP: AIBU is often full of knobish posters being snotty for the sake of it. There has often been lots of discussion about the London Oratory on the Secondary Education board, so you will probably find parents with Dc at the school there.

@TheHoptimist

I’m paying £27,000 for my ds to go to school Can I get his shirts from Asda ? Not unless you want him to be ostracised

Huh? I pay this for my kids' schools and they go in whatever shirts are on offer at M&S or similar.

I can only speak for the three private schools they've attended but it was a badge of honour amongst parents to buy uniform from the second hand uniform stall, rather than new. From memory, I've bought one new blazer between both boys (from nursery to sixth form.)

Yes, so they can claim to be sending their children to a state school when in fact it’s so exclusive it may as well be private

Bollocks. The second but anyway. It has ludicrous arcane admissions criteria, for sure, and has come in for past criticism and scrutiny for that.

But I saw local children from a very disadvantaged part of London, first generation immigrants etc, go to the school.

Personally I don’t support the state funding of schools where the primary stated aims and objectives of the school are faith orientated and based…but a state school it certainly is.

Ask Tony Blair for hand-me-downs

Peter Jones maybe?

Some nasty fuckers out today.

@doodleygirl

Some nasty fuckers out today.

What do you expect some of the threads posted are ridiculous lately. People seem to have lost their common sense

@Daffodils22 we expect you to have some common decency, politeness and respect.

[quote IveNameChangedAgain2020]@Daffodils22 we expect you to have some common decency, politeness and respect.[/quote]
Whose this “we”? I’m entitled to an opinion just as much as you are! I stick by my post there has been some ridiculous threads lately

[quote IveNameChangedAgain2020]@Daffodils22 we expect you to have some common decency, politeness and respect.[/quote]
Fuhgeddaboudit, this is AIBU.

@TheHoptimist

I’m paying £27,000 for my ds to go to school Can I get his shirts from Asda ? Not unless you want him to be ostracised

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[quote IveNameChangedAgain2020]@Daffodils22 we expect you to have some common decency, politeness and respect.[/quote]
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My dc go to private school, they have uniform from the second hand stalls, m&s and next.
They've done just fine.

There was more concern about 2nd hand when they went to a local state primary.

Aren’t the govt bringing in some legislation for school
Uniform and branding and where they can be bought?

@TheHoptimist

I’m paying £27,000 for my ds to go to school Can I get his shirts from Asda ? Not unless you want him to be ostracised

London Oratory is not a fee paying school so why are you being a dick?

@TheHoptimist

I’m paying £27,000 for my ds to go to school Can I get his shirts from Asda ? Not unless you want him to be ostracised

Thoughts and prayers, @TheHoptimist, thoughts and prayers.