a moan about school jumpers

saidan

On monday ds came home from school without his jumper on - asked where it was he said it was wet and the teacher hung it up to dry

wednesday the jumper hadn't returned so i sent a note - teacher wrote back sorry it is missing :mad:

today doing the school ironing I check all the tags and 2 of the other jumpers this week dont belong to him - one has a child's name in and is a size small, and the other has no tag but is a size too small.

so I have 2 jumpers that are too small and/or belong to another child - which I will return to school tomorrow..........and ds is missing 3 jumpers - with only 1 left in his drawer

btw he is just 4 with special needs so while I encourage him to look after his property I understand that things will occasionally go astray - but 3 in a week!

please tell me he's not the only one :cool:

meritaten

no he isnt the only one! my grandkids have lost jumpers, cardigans, even shoes! at the end of the school year the school think they have done thier duty by putting 'lost property' in huge cardboard boxes for parents to delve into! can you remember what a pair of shoes looked like in the first week of the year? and they wont fit anyway! or a school sweatshirt? and can you face going through thirty or so sweatshirts in the hope of finding your childs initials on the tag? in front of the rest of the parents? and those manky lunchboxes - yeuuuch! no one is going to own up to those!
why dont they do it weekly?

jackomdj

Ours is out all the time, it's amazing what you see in it.

My DD was down to one jumper last week. This week she has brought them all home, although today she tried to bring someone elses home!

milliebear00001

meritaten wrote: »

no he isnt the only one! my grandkids have lost jumpers, cardigans, even shoes! at the end of the school year the school think they have done thier duty by putting 'lost property' in huge cardboard boxes for parents to delve into! can you remember what a pair of shoes looked like in the first week of the year? and they wont fit anyway! or a school sweatshirt? and can you face going through thirty or so sweatshirts in the hope of finding your childs initials on the tag? in front of the rest of the parents? and those manky lunchboxes - yeuuuch! no one is going to own up to those!
why dont they do it weekly?

At my children's school, and the school I teach in, lost property is available for parents and children to look through whenever they like. I think this is usual in most schools.

The jumper has probably gone home with another child (as you found out!) and will likely return to school at some point. If it's labelled, it should find its way back to its owner.

YORKSHIRELASS

This happened to me too early on in the school year and DS ended up without any sweatshirts. His are named and I got cross with him saying he hadnt looked properly, eventually I went into school and the teacher pointed me to the lost property box which was full of brand new, unnamed uniform. Why dont parents label it?

The teacher said our sweatshirts had probably gone home with other kids and their sweatshirts would be in the lost property. Not much help to me. Eventually DS went to his peg one day and all three sweatshirts were there but by then I had to buy him some plain coloured ones to keep him going in the meantime.

When my older son started secondary school he lost a football boot and the school directed us to about 6 bin bags of lost property they were about to donate to charity because it was unclaimed. Brand new pairs of Nike trainers, good coats, expensive shoes etc. I couldnt believe it.

bright_side

I think (fingers crossed) that my DS has finally outgrown the losing and mixing up of uniform. He often came home from primary school wearing a classmates sweatshirt, but luckily that was generally sorted out the next day. He did come home in a girls frilly collared polo shirt once, bless him
The biggest problem has been in high school. He would go off to school wearing a nice smart polo shirt and come home wearing a tatty worn out one without a name inside, generally in size smaller than the one he left in!! He's in year 10 now and seems to have mastered keeping his own clothes :T

alwayspuzzled

DS2 once came home wearing odd shoes (clarks - same style one size different) , one was his one was his best mates! Thanks to labels easily sorted the next day but could easily have been a nightmare lol

Actually thanks for the reminder, must do a name check over hols, we use fabric pens (cause I'm too lazy to iron/sew in) which are fab but I have noticed a couple are a bit faded now.

newbutold

Same at my kids school. The biggest problem I have is when they forget to bring them home and left over night at school they seem to vanish into thin air.

LondonDiva

I think the best bet is to also expect your children to take responsibility for their own posessions. If the cost of replacemets were deducted from pocket money etc, it's amazing how quickly things stop going missing.

kingfisherblue

LondonDiva wrote: »

I think the best bet is to also expect your children to take responsibility for their own posessions. If the cost of replacemets were deducted from pocket money etc, it's amazing how quickly things stop going missing.

Easily said, but when you have a child with special needs, as I do, it isn't quite as straighhtforward as that. The OP's child also has special needs.

mishkanorman

I went through our schools lost property last term, there were 5 or 6 tubs of it and was getting ridiculous.

the majority of it was clearly labelled, when i asked the school office why the stuff hadnt been given back they said its the responsibility of the parents to retrieve their childs things. Every other newsletter has a small reminder on it to say label each item and that lost property was in the medical room and could be accessed as and when.

In our school it turned out that the year 2 children are on cloak room duty and anything on the floor would be taken to lost property, even if it was labelled and on the floor underneath their peg !

Like me i expect most parents presume if it has a label it will be given back to me and the school presume if I've lost it I should go looking for it !?