Dd has just started Year 7. She has recently been diagnosed with high functioning autism so it's been a bit of a stressful time. She's settling in slowly and seems to be making friends.
Last Friday she came home and said she had lost her pencil case and water bottle. The pencil case (and contents) were brand new and included an expensive pen (Lamy). The water bottle we treated her to during Year 6, it's a Chilly bottle, so again expensive.
They weren't named - I did suggest to dd that we name them but we never did and to be fair to dd, she had been pretty good at primary with keeping her things safe.
Apparently she left them in a classroom and when she went back later she couldn't find them. During this week she's checked lost property and I also told her form tutor.
Tomorrow she's got that lesson again in the same classroom so I told her to look thoroughly and check in cupboards etc. But after a week I'm starting to think they're not going to turn up.
What would you do about replacing them? I do feel a bit sorry for her, obviously a new pencil case and stationery is mandatory at the start of Year 7! She loved choosing new things to start school and she's only had them for 2 weeks. So I don't know how harsh or otherwise to be. I do want to teach her responsibility and consequences but she does seem genuinely sorry and she made a mistake.
WWYD?