shopping list TIPS please - taking dd into town for her uniform etc

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already have bought from the school:-

Tie
sweatshirt with logo
polo shirts with logo

on my list is
skirts (2)
shirts (how many?)
extra polo shirts (without logo) for emergencies
long socks
pencil case
stationary - pencils rule rubber sharpener
school bag

waht else do i need? pe kit?

daps is one of the most vile words in the English language. I'd never heard it until we moved to the south-west and my mother in law offered to make my eldest a 'dap bag' for when she started school. I would call them plimsolls or gym shoes or P.E. shoes. We also had sandshoes when I was at school, they were always white with laces.

Even now I can't bring myself to say daps, it's a concession for me to write it! I just hate the word. My children laugh at me when we go to buy new ones because I go out of my way to avoid saying it if I actually have to ask for them. Must be one of those north-south divides.

Aitken & Niven v expensive and primarily the private schools (where is she going?). Clan House fab - cheaper for same stuff. Def get art aprons in John Lewis. HTH