How much uniform do you provide?

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New to all this as DS starts school this year.

It occurred to me I might not have purchased enough uniform - but it's not really the sort of thing you ask everyone else on the first day at the school gate!

I haven't bought a huge lot as I was kind of naively hoping that 2 thick jumpers would be ok, 4 shirts and 4 trousers, one PE kit.

I seem to do a wash most days so thought uniforms would just be included.

How about everyone else?

PE kit only comes home during holiday.

Depends also if you only wash once a week. My Ds has 4 polo tops, 2 sweatshirts, pr trousers. I do have weeks when to 2 sweatshirts is a struggle but other than that we are fine.

My DS's both play football at break times on playground and as weather gets wetter/muddier they tend to need clean trousers every day. DS 2 does lots of drawing/painting type stuff and the white polos never ever last more than a day before washing. Plus polos are so cheap in tesco etc it makes sense to have lots and save washing and ironing stress. Sweatshirts/fleeces can last a couple of days depending on if they fell over in mud, spill lunch eat and these also tend to get lost with depressing frequency. PE kits one shorts and track suit but couple of shirts and sock as the have pe plus after school sports clubs. Hope that helps! Good luck to your DS!

DS has:

6 pairs trousers
8 polo shirts
5 jumpers
2 lots of pe kit

He can only have clean clothes on for about 30 minutes and he is dirty. Mud, paint, food - it goes every where. He usually goes through about 20 white polo shirts each school year. Good job they are so cheap at Asda and Tesco.

There is only the 2 of us, so I never have enough washing to use the machine every day.

well I have one in Yr2 and one in Yr1. In the past we have managed fine with 2 short sleeve blouses, 2 long sleeve, one skirt and one pinafore each. HOWEVER they have always had packed lunches made by me so I have avoided yoghurts to save on washing issues! so here we are having had 3 days of school lunches, we have had gravy on blouse, yoghurt on tie... I can see this year I may be washing more or buying more (mind I did keep last year's blouses as spares even though they are getting a bit small so I might get away with it)

Ds hates gunk, so got through Reception with three pairs of trousers, three polo shirts, two sweatshirts, and only needed washing once a week. He finally got more into paint and felt tips so more washes needed in the summer (and sweatshirts dumped on the ground). Lost one sweatshirt so have bought two more for Y1.

DD is year 1, she has 2 pinafores, 2 jumpers, 3 blouses, 2 summer dresses, 1 blazer, 1 coat, 1 PE kit, 1 ballet kit, 3 pairs of tights, 3 pairs of winter socks and 7 pairs of summer socks