PE kit - has yours ever lost it?

[Lottie4]

If your son/daughter has ever lost their PE kit did it turn up? Just wondering what the chances of it turning up before I have to go out and replace some of it (luckily just hockey socks, gumguard and school sweatshirt, shin pads but still £30). I have a t-shirt and skort for her to grow into (as she is using last years kit) and spare socks. Just bought her boots and trainers for winter, so the trainers will have to go into school and she will have to do without these.

All the blooming time. Named and everything. One expensive piece turned up in lost property 6 months later...no idea where it had been in the meantime.

yes they have both lost their kit ...but luckily do not attend the kind of school where expensive kit is required......

and why does your daughter have to give up her trainers to be kept in school for one PE lesson a week - I seriously do not get it...

Not the whole thing, but DS1 (12) has lost three pe fleeces/hoodies since starting at his school two years ago. One of those was the new one I bought for this term . He will be paying for the replacement. If anyone has any idea about how to stop kids losing stuff/forgetting stuff/not caring about their possessions, please let me know!

BurberryQ, she will have to remember to bring them home so I'm anticipating they will stay at school all week!! I know sometime I'll have to replace them, but money is a bit tight so won't have the full amount available this month to buy everything she's lost. That's why I wonder what the chances are of it turning up.

She knows she had it in science (after PE). She said if tutors know things have been left they keep them, so have asked her to catch up with all classes/tutors in next couple of days. Time will tell!!

Mine has lost his whole kit. He only started last month!!

My son looses everything.

PE kit is soooo expensive. And the sports bags have large embroidered numbers on so if anyone has seen bag no 56 let me know its got to be around somewhere !
I turned up at school to embarrass him to try to find it but no luck.

I've bought second hand stuff now and he has one pair of rugby shorts (£25 which they have to wear when they represent the school) which I only let him take on match days and its kept in my room otherwise !

And dont get me started on the pencil case left on the metro, calculators, fountain pens, pencil crayons.... was close to £50 to replace

I think I must be lucky - my two are pretty good with their stuff. If they were losing stuff regularly, I think I would make them pay from their own money

They have stopped taking pencil cases in though - DD says other kids ask to borrow and then don't pass stuff back, so they just take a few bits in their blazer pockets!

Ds lost his within weeks of starting secondary. It turned up 8 months later. At dcs school they put the initials on the kit somo used to anyone else

Mine doesn't lose his. However, it has been 'borrowed' fairly regularly. So far it has always turned up again. I had words with his teacher once for punishing him for something that was beyond his control. If the school can't ensure the safety of my son's PE kit they have no call blaming him when some other child takes it and (presumably) uses it themselves.

Last time DD lost her school PE top I bought a new one and then the lost one mysteriously turned up in her drawers.
Having kids names embroidered on their clothing helps ensure so one else takes it by mistake.
Can you ask the school if you can come and look in their lost and found box ?
Do you have a local free cycle network? It's worth putting up a wanted request.

Thanks, Travelledtheworld. At the moment I've left her to do a search of the school, ie all classes she could have taken it in (four) and the assembly hall. Have told her she should aim to do this by tomorrow, with a view to checking with the two lost property areas after that. Everything is labelled with name and form number, and unlikely to fit anyone else as she's tiny so only reason or something to nick is for prank not cause it's useful.

They have a reasonably new logo on things, but am about to look at the local recycle site.

Does she go anywhere else on her way home from school?

DS1 lost his kit - complete with trainers - and I was frantic. He'd only been at high school a month.

It turned up at the Tesco Express he'd popped into on his way from the bus stop.

This is a bit naughty but... School lost property boxes are full of lost PE kit. If you know she lost it in school, I'd be very tempted to go in and pick up a set from there: "Well it's soooo hard to tell, isn't it, but I thiiiiiink these are her black shorts"!

dds - no.
ds - by the time he'd lost his second one (not counting also losing his swimming kit) by October of Yr7 - I went into school, telling him I didn't care how embarrassing I was. A lovely TA there showed me a room, full of big cupboards, each full of washed kit, uniform, and other clothing items like coats. She found his swimming kit for me (in the minibus) and one of the PE kits (don't know where she went searching for that) and told me never ever to buy new, but to come to her when he needed stuff and she would be glad to lose some of the stock that had built up over the years. She was genuinely chuffed that his stuff had his name on it, and returned many, many things to him over the next 6 years. I loved that woman

Thanks for all your replies.

Just an update, she was lucky to find it in the first room she went to and it's all there! She did, however, leave it at a friend's house on the way home so was sent back for it!!