What Stationary Bits will my Son need for year 7?

[Julezboo]

Seems a long time since I had to buy for myself!!!! I have hit a brick wall. Its so worrying this year 7 stuff!

Tell him that kids in secondary schools don't have those types of pencil cases, especially boys!

This is the most common one (and style) for boys www.whsmith.co.uk/Products/GUL-Pencil-Case+Stationery+23723917

Are they all surfers then?

is humour acceptable?

DS1 had the standard barrel pencil cases (complete with surfing company logo) but has found most of them to either be too small to fit calculator, maths set etc, or so big that they take up too much space on the desk. He has chosen one of these for Y9; in black, not pink.

Yep, my ds has one of those double pocketed ones, too (a camo one from Smiths). He like it because he has essentials in the front pocket (pens/pencils/rubber/gluestick/small ruler) and 'less frequently useds' in the back (coloured pencils/scissors/stapler/compass and protractor/memory stick etc). He likes to be very organised!

We've been told:

Bring from day 1: 2 x working pens, several pencils including coloured, sharpener, rubber, metric ruler, pocket dictionary

School will sell appropriate calculator cheaply to dc once they start.

NO liquid paper

sounds simple enough :) We are also quite near Milford Haven . . .

Sorry, missed protractor and compasses from list

I'm not worrying about this one as dd generally carries enough stationary to start her own branch of Smiths

Btw the Casio calculator is on sale in sainsburys as part of the buy one get one free offer, so for £11 if you team up with a friend who can have 2 scientific calculators. I know that through school suppliers I can usually have to pay at least £6 for each one! I now recommend that parents get them themselves and not through school as it's cheaper!

Btw the Casio calculator is on sale in sainsburys as part of the buy one get one free offer, so for £11 if you team up with a friend who can have 2 scientific calculators. I know that through school suppliers I can usually have to pay at least £6 for each one! I now recommend that parents get them themselves and not through school as it's cheaper!

I got the Sainsbury deal, bought one for DS2 for when he goes up next year. They are the solar powered ones too

Last year I actually bought a stock for my classroom on the same deal as it was cheaper than school suppliers as the supermarkets can afford to make a smaller percentage profit on each unit sold! Think the woman on the checkouts thought I was a bit mad for buying 10 in one go, but hey I saved the school about £60!

Just the basics as most have outlined but do remind your DS that this is one area in life where they don't have to share.
If his 'mates' want to borrow his coloured pencils etc the answer is no! Some students can be thoughtless when using other's peoples stuff and it takes year 7's a while to work that out. Not all students of course, but we often have issues with students kindly lending stuff that comes back broken or not at all.
yy to bringing calculators to science and short rulers are often more convenient for day to day use as they fit in the pencil case. I have a set of long rulers if we're doing graph work.
I lend out pens but only in exchange for something of worth (lunch card etc) but tends to be mainly yrs 10 and 11 (too cool for pencil cases!)

I can honestly say that in my 13 teaching career as a maths teacher I have not really needed to get the children to use a long ruler at all! A short one is sufficient and I would always lend a long one if they needed it, especially if I could see that they had bothered to bring a short one!

Like many organisations, Ds's school don't allow anything non-school to be connected to school kit, so USBs are out.

They can save work to the school's storage areas, which are accessible and savable to from home, and/or email.