What rucksack do your yr 4,5,6 dds us for school?

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DD is so indecisive. Please help inspire us.

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Hello, this thread is a little old now and some of the links are out of date. Take a look at this handy page for a round up of the best backpacks, chosen by Mumsnetters.

Smiggle ones are a fave in our house!

Superdry

Hype here for DDs 9 and 10

School book bag like this.

One likes school rucksacks for all the pockets. The other, anything Smiggle. We covered the cost of a normal rucksack and she saved up to cover the extra.

Anything Minecraft-related. I wish my DD was into Smiggle, their bags are fab

We bought a Herschel rucksack (not one of the massive things, just a standard sized backpack) a year ago and it's had a good battering. Looks pretty much new. Bought a Lego key ring for the zip, and DS was happy to have it for another year! I may add/change keyring next year if I can get away with it again...

Skip Hop Zoo ones are really cute, the unicorn is our favourite

Eastpaks. Fairly indestructible, machine washable, and they come with a guarantee. Padded straps a bonus as they have Ehlers Danlos syndrome, and dislocate easily

Looking for inspiration for 7yo DD too. She likes one from Paperchase but it's an eye watering £32 or something like that.

DS had one like this for year 5

Year 5 daughter has chosen this one, www.sportsdirect.com/hot-tuna-tuna-galaxy-b-pack00-715177?colcode=71517793

Two of ours are are at a school with a bag that's part of the uniform.

Toddler DD takes a Fjallraven Kanken Mini to daycare though. And I have the regular one. They're fab.

Ds1 chose a plain red one off Amazon. No brand. He doesn't carry enough yet (yr2), to warrant a big expensive one.

My dc use a bog standard bookbag with a strap, as pictured upthread, for their reading and homework books.

For their pe kits (and as a general purpose rucksack when out & about) they use these funky and colourful bags from Amazon

Gosh, ignore me. I read your op wrong and thought it said 4, 5 & 6 y old dc

Sorry, I read it as age 4, 5 & 6 too

Ds2 (Y5) has a Hype one, chosen more for the colour/size than the brand (I think/ hope).

DD quite likes this one

And this one

DS3, age 5, needs to use school branded rucksack, means everyone's the same and bonus at £8 from school. Book bag is £6. Bargain.
But if it helps the flowery adidas ones are v popular with older girls this year or Cath Kidston ( our kids already back to school in Scotland and going by what they're all wearing at the school gate).

One from Accessorize that she chose herself. My ds has one from Smiggle.

This will probably be really outing, but lots of kids where I work have cabin baggage, the pull along suitcase type things. They're a pain in the classroom as you can't hang them on a peg or the back of a chair like a ruck sack, but they don't have to lug heavy books around on their back/shoulder they just wheel their stuff around.

The older kids usually resort to bags for life as they have so many lever arch files in the run up to CE! The games kit back gets strung around their neck/shoulders and at least one bag for life with books/folders!

Hype here. Blue one that looks like water.

There are soooooo many colours.

Oh those Adidas floral ones look really nice, (I might get one for me )wildbhoy