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Satchel for Year 7 DD

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muttonjeffmum · 30/07/2013 17:13

Can anyone please recommend a satchel for my daughter who starts Year 7 in September. We have been looking on Amazon but can't decide what ones would be big enough.

I know she should have a rucksack for practical reasons - but she's 11 and fashion conscious.

Thank you.

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BellaVita · 30/07/2013 17:27

Are satchels in?

I work in a school (secondary) and the girls have handbags, Cath Kidston type bags, messenger bags, Aztec type girly rucksacks.

flakjacket · 30/07/2013 17:34

Try to find something really cheap - she'll want something different after a month or two. My Y7 went through two before Christmas before finally settling on the ideal Hmm.

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muttonjeffmum · 30/07/2013 17:34

They seem to be around here Bella. Her 18 year old cousin uses one.

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flakjacket · 30/07/2013 17:40

To be fair, her 18 year old cousin probably only studies 3 or 4 subjects. She may well have to carry around several large textbooks and numerous exercise books as well as her pencil case etc. DD settled on a large Cath Kidston carry-all because her satchel was proving too small.

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muttonjeffmum · 30/07/2013 19:51

I didn't think about the fact that her cousin carries less books. Thank you for that. I think we will have to keep looking.

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BackforGood · 30/07/2013 23:41

I've not seen a school pupil with a satchel since about 1978.
Is she sure that's what she wants?

Here, some older girls seem to use giant handbags.
Some Yr7s use backpacks.
Most seem to use messenger bags.

Zingy123 · 31/07/2013 06:58

Satchels seem very in here. Most of the girls have them when we walk past the bus stop.

Flossiechops · 31/07/2013 07:03

You could try zatchels although they are a bit pricey. I saw some yesterday in Primark for £9 which looked a pretty decent size.

hotsummer · 31/07/2013 07:10

I believe Cambridge satchel Co. started a trend, again not cheap for Y7 (very nice though!).

pourmeanotherglass · 02/08/2013 11:33

Satchels seem to be in for yr5 primary round here.

cls77 · 07/08/2013 12:24

Mutton Im doing exactly the same at the mo for my DD, she bought a satchel from amazon earlier in the year with some bday money and it turned out to be far too small for folders etc or anything other than a notepad and pencil case lol. We are now looking at the idea of a messenger bag as the theory is the same but they are larger inside?

mysteryfairy · 14/08/2013 19:27

My DD has got a zatchels satchel for going into Y7 and a lot of her friends have too as they all consulted re colours.

I got the second to biggest size during their 50% off second anniversary sale and with her name etc added it was about £65 so would be a lot to buy now.

cece · 15/08/2013 08:38

Mt adivse is buy something very cheap for the first few weeks. By then she will have sussed what bags are 'acceptable'. Then get one that suits.

cece · 15/08/2013 08:39

FWIW DD ended up with a fabric rucksack from Primark...

Tigerblue · 15/08/2013 09:52

My daughter wanted something more fashionable for Year 7 but after too broke/wore in the first term, I insisted she have a rucksack. Bought one from Animal in the sale and it's still got use in it. Her rucksack is about 42cm high with a depth of 9cm and you can just about fit everything in on a bad day. Now I'd say about one third of her friends have a rucksack, some have a number of cheap fashionable bags which keep breaking/aren't waterproof and her closest friend has a fabric school satchel, but has to carry a plastic bag sometimes to fit things in.

You hear a lot about children being concerned about fitting in, but I can honestly say the girls at my daughter's school are brilliant - so far (just going into Year 8). They just accept some are fashionable, some want to be practical and not fashionable and some don't care, and there are no nasty comments about looks either.

Sunnymeg · 22/08/2013 08:21

Please don't buy her a satchel. We had to have them at grammar school in the 1970's. They are totally impractical and you can't close them if they are stuffed full of books. I still remember running for the bus and all my books falling out onto the pavement.

MadeOfStarDust · 22/08/2013 08:41

Ours are all into Anna Smith rucksacks - they do look really nice and hold a ton of stuff....

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muttonjeffmum · 23/08/2013 20:33

We've settled for a rucksack - a mi-pac one which apparently are all the thing in the US. I don't know how she knows this. She's probably seen something on you-tube but I'm just relived that she has gone off of the satchel idea.

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BellaVita · 23/08/2013 20:43

DS2 has asked for a Mi Pac.

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muttonjeffmum · 23/08/2013 22:10

I ordered the mi pac on-line. From SkateHut. Route One do them too. I have an older skater boy son so we regularly order from these websites. I did actually see them in a shop in Weymouth and they were the same price as on-line with the postage.

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BellaVita · 23/08/2013 23:13

I ordered DS2's from ASOS. Was going to do Amazon, but delivery said between one and two months Hmm

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