If your child wears a polo shirt and sweatshirt to school...

[FannyWincham]

...out of pure curiosity, how many of each do you have?

DD does five afternoons in the school nursery class. We bought three polos and two sweatshirts but I'm noticing that I'm having to wash one or both items most days as they get dirty. I don't mind but wonder if I wildly underestimated how many items she would need, or if I just have an unusually messy child...

3 polos, 3 sweatshirts has been my formula throughout primary and now secondary. They have clean ones everyday but I wash Tuesday night/dry Wednesday and that sees us through to the end of the week.

I have a lot. Ten polos and three or four jumpers.

Solution for the yoghurt mess. Make yoghurt jelly up instead. Use the old tommee tippee weaning pots (yoghurt sized) and make up a jelly - but only use about 1/10th with boiling water - and once jelly melted then add plain yoghurt to make up the rest of the liquid. Fruity, yoghurty flavour. Calcium. But if spilt it just bounces off the polo shirt/jumper.

10 polos. 5 jumper / cardigan. 3 skirts, 1 trousers, 5 pinafore dresses.
She only wears the trousers if it's really cold and likes to switch between dress and skirt. I like the dresses, they look smarter!

5 polo shirts and 3 sweatshirts. Can usually stretch the sweatshirts to two or three days depending on what ds has for lunch. New polo every day.

5 polo shirts (they're white & I only do 1 whites wash a week)
4 sweatshirts, had 3 & bought an extra last week

3 polos and 2 jumpers

Dd is year 6 and we still have 5 polos and 4 cardigans and 2 sweatshirts. She meinkybwears cardigans but if it's really cold wears a sweatshirt.

Polos one for each day as now at that age were they can smell a bit by the time she's home.

Up until the end of Y2, they needed to be washed every day. Y3 onwards, they can have 2 of everything until they get old enough to get stinky.

5 polo's, 2 cardi's and one jumper

Between two of them they have 11 polo shirts and seven sweatshirts. Two years apart but dd1 is very slim and dd2 is average size so they wear the same sizes. But each has their own skirts and dresses as dd1 needs a much longer length.

But the PTA does a second hand uniform sale every half term so not all those were bought new.

3 polos each, but actually all in size of larger child and we just label them with surname so either can wear them.
DS has 2 jumpers, DD has 3 but we haven't needed all of them, they mostly take them off and leave them in bags.
There's usually a mid-week wash. I'd estimate one child gets food on polo each day but not always the same child.

5 of everything, as I refuse to iron more than once a week.

10 polos isn't really an option when they have to be regulation crested polos and jumpers, at £7.50 and £12.99 each respectively. I'll get her another two polos and a jumper to bring us up to five polos and three jumpers.

Roll on the summer when she can wear a generic gingham dress!

Mistress I don't iron at all ...

6 polos. currently 3 jumpers/sweatshirts. 3 Trousers.

DS(4) has 2 polo shirts, 2 sweatshirts and 2 pairs of trousers! I've embraced minimalism 😁 but he has 7 pairs of socks as they're more difficult to spot in the laundry basket.

They go in the wash after every wear because of messy play, paint and canteen medals. They're all wrecked but it seems like every kid in his class has done the same to their clothes too.

What's this iron thing you mentioned?

Fanny when your dd goes in a pinafore you can just buy the plain polos from Asda as the logo would be covered anyway. Tip buy the boys polos as it won't have a scalloped edge and will look like the regulation polo top.

I should say my uniform is all supermarket stuff, no logo, so pretty cheap really

My child is generally pretty messy. However we reached half term without me washing his jumper even once!! (I have a second, unworn one.) Granted, this could well be because he doesn't wear it very often - he is never cold. I do wash shirts every day though, pretty much regardless of the condition, and as they come in packs of two, I have six. Same with shorts/trousers.

Five of each and we're considerably further up the school. In the last week alone we've had clothing covered in lunch, mud, pen, and bird poo. Some children just don't get any cleaner.

I bought three polo's and two sweatshirts, and it's not enough! Can I get away with non- logo polo's if they are worn under a sweatshirt?

I am very, very grateful that generic supermarket clothing is allowed.

Seven good tip but from reception onwards they wear white shirts and ties (on elastic) under pinafores. At least only the cardi is regulation then, though, and as others have pointed out cardis don't get quite as trashed as jumpers. I hadn't appreciated quite how unusual the uniform is for an infant school...