Name labels in Secondary school uniform?

[ConfessorKahlan]

My eldest dd starts Yr7 soon. Am I supposed to put name labels in all of her uniform as I have done all through primary? I don't want her to be a source of amusement or a target if she is the only one with her name in her clothes.

There is so much to worry about, such as what bag should she take etc. It's hard enough to transition without me making it worse for her.

I hope that this is not a silly question!

Calculators need labels but not the rest of the stationery. Nail varnish or tipp ex is good for labelling the calculator, or scratching it in using a compass.

I would name things like pens/pencils, then if they do get lost/borrowed it can save the teacher time! I hate it hwen children say so and so borrowed/stole my pen, if it's named you can identify who it belonged to in the first place! Print name on some paper and then wrap around the top and secure with some sellotape.

my dd lost all pe kit as there was no labels on them - i had to fork out 100 quid for another

I have had ssssssssooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo many PE kits and bits of PE kit, and the odd jumper and other items returned due to the fact I always ew names in everything. I'm amazed at the number of parents who can afford to lose these items - the lost property in ds's school is a massive room full of stuff, year after year.
I also had the most wonderful TA in the world come and knock on our door about 1/4 to 6 one Friday evening when ds was in Yr7. She'd found his coat in school during her weekly sweep of the school for lost property, back in the last few days he ever wore a coat saw his name in it and 'clicked' he was off on a residential on the Monday, very early, so had gone to the office and looked up his address, then driven round to our house to deliver it to us!
So YES to sewing name tapes in from me

Buy a sharpie pen and write names on anything that can be written on!

Just got the on-sale sharpies from Smiths today for that very purpose stleger! I don't get the point of sewing in labels when you can just write on the labels already on the garment, which definitely aren't going to come off (and presumably less likely to get nicked)

I label everything!
The PE department at my D/S's secondary school lend forgotten PE kit (shirts, shorts) to other kids who do not have theirs on the day despite the fact that the lent kit is clearly named. My D/S accidentally left his named shorts in the changing room one day, and they were never seen again.
PE department gave him another pair to wear on the next PE day clearly named belonging to another child. The school policy is to return named lost items immediately. Of course he didn't keep them, he handed them back at the end of the lesson, not that he was asked to! This is how the kit disappears! This PE department gives me the pip! I've a good mind to name and shame them.

You should label all uniform.

I sew in labels onto all uniform, use giant name tapes on the outside of PE kit, science and art overalls and aprons. I use just iron on on socks.

Thank you - I've just bought the "superglue" labels from labelplanet after reading these posts. I'm going to label EVERYTHING
PS they arrived very quickly - within 2 days of ordering.

I use a soldering iron to brand DS's name on things like his calculator and £10 mobile! V.v. easy to do and makes stuff less likely to be nicked.

Wildcat,

From (bitter) experience as a teacher - writing on a label is not sufficient if there is an 'intent to nick' a piece of clothing, rather than simply a chance of the thing going walkabout.

How to determine whether the school sweatshirt with the original label cut out with scissors but now labelled with an iron-on name label belongs to the person who says that theirs had the name written on the label, or the one who says they always cut the label out because it's itchy and it's their name on the iron-on?? Parents have come to blows in the plaground over that one......

Also, writing on a label is fine for things with labels in the centre back of the neck. If it's in an obscure side seam, in my experience it tends to be put into the lost property as 'un-named', as when dealing with the umpteenth lost item of the day, the temptation is to take a quick look at whether there is an obvious label and then sling it into lost property before getting on with the umpteen other things that need doing....

I saw in labels, and write on every label.

I have also been known to tell him to go to lost property, find a tie with no name on it, and take it. (I only told him this after I realised lost property has 200 non named ties).

The only thing I haven't named was shoes. And yes, he lost one trainer (only one, we still have the other )

I will probably even name his clothes when he doesn't wear uniform when he's in 6th form. - Hell, who am I kiddding, I'll even sew labels into his jeans when he goes to uni. It makes me feel like a good mummy.

OOI, a mate I knew went to a (private) school in Australia where winter uniform involved an Akubra hat like this, with the school colours in a ribbon around it.

They cost about £100 in the UK! They were a compulsory part of the uniform and Aussie schools tend to enforce the 'no hat/no play' rule. So many of these hats went 'walkabout' from pegs etc that the school had begun to investigate microchipping them!

That is so funny Tansie. Winner of the competition for most ridiculous school uniform item...

Oooh, Teacherwith, I know that feeling. But fear it makes me a hypocrite as ds1 has sensory issues and name labels have to go on side seam of some things. Sigh.

Just bought my lables from LablePlanet- was considering just putting surname, as have twins, but decided that at high school, our surname, though not that common, may still be the same as a few other kids, so went for the first names as well, just in case.
Also had to ask kids whether they wanted their "proper" name, or the abreviated ones they both now go by (much against my wishes). Abreviated all the way