Should I just put my money directly in the bin?

[ThedaBara]

My daughter has mild SEN, goes to a mainstream school and is doing well.
Over the years she has managed to lose nearly every item of clothing i have provided her with for school - she came home wearing someone else's socks once and couldn't explain where hers had gone!

She's in year 6 now and her school are doing leavers hoodies. She's had hers a week and it's gone. I do have to buy her another one, everyone else in class wears theirs daily and she's very distressed at being the only one without one. She's offered for it to come out of her savings, which i won't do, but it shows that she understands that all these things cost money.

What can i do to improve this situation? She'll be going to secondary next year and I can't buy her a new blazer for every day of the year!

Grateful for any tips from parents with SEN, or butter fingered children!

Ha. I sympathise. My Year One mild SEN chews through an item of uniform a week.

The school I work in, the Y6 kids get their leavers jumpers in September (ordered end of Y5 and personalised with initials embroidered on the front) and wear them all year. It happens that way at most schools round here so they actually get plenty of use out of them, rather than just having them right at the end.

No advice but I feel your pain. DS is autistic and gets school transport, so theres not even the chance to send him back for anything. By half term he had lost 5 new jumpers plus 3 last year jumpers I'd had to squeeze him into after he lost the 5. Eventually his ta found a stack of them and sent home two massive carrier bags of jumpers.

Good idea! My son got his in June, and as a consequence it was never worn. The first time he would have needed a hoodie was in september (so year 7), and by them a primary school hoodie was deeply uncool

Label everything twice at least. Inside the neck - on the label minimum. Check when you get her - have you got jumper, coat etc and talk to the teacher - our target at home is not to lose clothes etc and we have the school and teacher support with this. Regularly ask if you can check through lost property etc

It is a disability and not a moral failing is the most important part of this excellent post.

Crutches can allow a physically disabled person to transfer from wheelchair to seat without anxiety, and staying calm with them if they get stuck gives them the impetus to keep trying.

ADHD support techniques like named belongings, lanyards on keys, distinctive stickers on water bottles, lists to check etc help children with adhd manage their belongings without anxiety. Calm, rational, supportive behaviour when they do lose things gives them the impetus to keep trying.