Are you going to wash uniform every day?

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I would usually wash dcs uniform on a Wednesday. They'd have two sets, fresh set on a Monday, and then they'd have a fresh set to wear to school on a Thursday, unless they'd spilt something on it or it was visibly dirty then of course it would be changed.

Are most people going to be changing theirs everyday due to Covid?

The guidance says normal washing schedules are fine.
If it's dirty, wash it. Change underwear daily and shirts especially for my honking DS

Let's not create more drama!

Oldest in Uni so fresh clothes every day and youngest is year 11.. she'll be in fresh uniform every day ( I have enough for 4 days uniform and 1 day sports kit all day) and her blazer will be sprayed with fabric disinfectant each evening. It may sound extreme but I live in a hot spot.

I will give DS a clean shirt every day purely on the basis hes a stinky teenager but i bought some fabulosa fabric disinfectant in aldi yesterday that i will use on his blazer and tie

No. Ds has a clean shirt, socks & pants daily, but the rest only if something is spilt on it.

Clean shirt and trousers every day, jumpers every 2 to 3 days if they are not dirty. I will not be washing and drying a blazer every day.

My delightful 5 year old seems to get hers filthy every day so has clean uniform daily anyway.

Son has always had a clean uniform on daily (he's always filthy either with food, craft or mud from the playground). Only need branded jumper, everything else is from Asda.

Before the holidays it was clean uniform everyday, come home, wash hands, change and put uniform in a washbag and then the whole lot was washed at the weekend. Same as my hospital uniform. But really, that's not that different from before!

Yes, will be washed as soon as they come in the door.

No I won’t be.

[quote inaspin12]To be honest it seems quite over the top for a virus you have a 44 in a million chance of catching.

There's a 1 in 2 million chance of dying from the virus in England

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Yeah, but that’s per day, and an average. So continuing the extrapolation, for an average person, assuming a vaccine in mid-2021, over that inerrant they have a 2% chance of catching COVID and a 0.2% chance of long term affects.

Mine wear clean clothes every day anyway so this is our normal.

That said, if you don't usually wash them and you are planning to, why? The same with the idea of making them shower as soon as they walk in the door - if you kid is bringing Covid home from school they are bringing it home internally. Do people really think washing a uniform a kid has worn all day will protect anyone from this? If covid is on the uniform your child has been touching all day then your kid is gonna have covid. Washing the uniform won't change any risk whatsoever.

We wash school clothes daily and jackets weekly or fortnightly. Always have as my two are grotty. I also know, having cleaned many, what lurks underneath school tables and across the tops of them and I know my two will be lying down on grotty table tops. 🤢 Enhanced cleaning in our school means our handles on doors are cleaned 3 x a day and i clean desks 3 x a day but schools are still grotty places.

Good god no. No tumble dryer here, and I’m not buying multiple blazers. The big one has a shirt for every day, but that because of his armpits, not COVID.

I have accumulated lots of mainly second hand uniform so I can wash daily/ account for misplacing.

I bought dettol antibacterial clothes spray and that’s what I will be using on skirts and jumpers on Monday-Tuesday and then wash Wednesday. Thursday- Friday dettol spray and the weekend wash.

Clean shirts on every day.

Mine have always worn a clean uniform every day!!

Just like I wear clean clothes daily!

I buy 3 branded school jumpers, 2 supermarket plain ones and 2 branded T-shirt's and 3 supermarket ones plus 5 Pairs of trousers.. wash and iron on a Sunday night for the week ahead!

Shocked others don't!

Nope, it’s not necessary per the guidance.

Nope, they'll just get the same germs or whatever on each day. I only clean my sons about twice a week. It gets something down it after being on for half an hour so I don't see the point!

No. I just don't think it's necessary.
Bit like wiping down shopping. Just no.

Ours are alternating uniform and sports kit.
So it will be clean every day, apart from the blazer which will get buggered washing that frequently.

I am amazed anyone's DC gets more than a days wear out of school uniform (covid aside)

We always have muddy knees and a dirty jumper !

I'm sure the new guidance that came out for schools said it wasn't necessary any more. To me if you have to wash uniform every day then that would include bags, shoes, outdoor coats etc not just the 'uniform'. When I went back to preschool I did wash my jeans every day but we had nice weather and I have a tumble dryer. We wear uniform tops of which I have 5 so no problem there. My DD went back to work in a shop which doesn't have a uniform so we rigged up a line that she could hang her stuff on in the car port (so it didn't matter if it rained) as she didn't want to have to wash it after one wear (she has a lot of jumpers that are hand wash only) and left it for a couple of days before bringing it in but as I said guidance has changed that it's not required any more.

Omg no unless they are obviously dirty! But I didn't quarantine post or food shopping either.

If your child's clothes have got enough covid on them to be a concern to anyone then your child will already have covid and probably be infectious to everyone around them so washing their clothes isn't likely to help anything... at least they will be clean though and sometimes it just helps to feel like you are doing something!

I'm a nurse, we are now wearing scrubs that have matching laundry bags to go in at end of day and these then come home inside a 2nd (plastic) bag for washing. I'm not sure how scrubs repel virus particles anymore than our usual uniforms but they are very comfy and lots of pretty materials so I'm not complaining.

What is the reasoning behind students being told to come in with PE kit on when they have PE? What is the risk from changing into PE kit at school? This is what my primary is doing.