School Coats

16011996

will do now.

jellyhead

should be fine then :-)

in our school it's rare to find another kid with the same coat, very odd as there must be 450 kids in school lol!

i rip out coat labels if they have someone's name in marker pen, then sew my label in. i still have loads of sew in labels from nursery, he's been in education for more than 4 years but i started to write names in pen on labels of most clothes as he found my sewn on labels itchy. doesn't matter on coats. i cut off the little picture of a train that goes before his name now though, i don't think he'd appreciate having an ickle train on his labels teehee!

i used to buy logo sweatshirts and polo shirts (they wear them all year) from the school office. there's also a white PE t-shirt with a logo. it was 6 months when the warmer weather came and kids were coming out of school without jumpers on that i realised less than half of them wore school polo shirts, the rest just wore ordinary white ones.

we get letters home occasionally about uniform but they are about the colour of the uniform (e.g. jumpers must be grey) - nobody insists on school logos.

Caterina

Yeah I know that idea, my sons school sell the white polo shirts with the school crest printed on for £6.75 each. >:(

This year I bought a pack of two from Marks and Spencer for the money I would have paid the school for one.  It was commented on to him at the beginning of the summer by his teacher, but I sent a letter saying that I thought the school ones were too expensive as I have to replace them every year and they can only wear them 4 months of the year.  Nothing more was said.

I would have done the same except that at secondary school they get sent back home or get detention if they do not wear the 'proper' uniform.

By the time I got the twins 2 t-shirts, 2 sweatshirts and 1 fleece each (as school rooms in winter are as cold as a witches' tit and they are not allowed - again under penalty of detention - to wear their coat in school) it set me back the best part of £100. Go figure....

Caterina

robnye

Yeah I know that idea, my sons school sell the white polo shirts with the school crest printed on for £6.75 each. >:(

heres a tip for the schools then,

why cant they supply iron badges.....?

we can buy cheaper polo shirts etc, then buy the badge from school and iron it on or sew    

christmas_donkey

heres a tip for the schools then,

why cant they supply iron badges.....?

we can buy cheaper polo shirts etc, then buy the badge from school and iron it on or sew    

I totally agree, it was suggested at one of the PTA meetings awhile ago, however the school is a very small school, the majority of kids come from welltodo families where money is no object and the suggestion was sniggered at in the playground the next day and never bought up again.

Its interesting to know, that the school is thrown money at by way of gifts, donations, and the christmas fayres normally fetch hundreds - which isnt bad for a school with less than 200 pupils!!! but they struggle keeping a PTA together as theres no one willing to volunteer to help. I asked if my childs jumper had been handed into lost property the once, I was led into a room with a huge box up a corner and I kid you not, there were at least 50 jumpers/cardis that were brand new and obviously hadnt been missed when they had gone missing. They had all got the school logo on which incidently the school was selling for £7 each. None of them had got names in.

Some people have more money than sense!!!