a moan about school jumpers

Seanymph

Go look in lost property once a week, chances are they will turn up.

I have to confess i ended up claiming an unnamed jumper by the end of secondary school - it was just a communal share as far as I was concerned, school had so many they just handed me a couple because I'd lost two in a week (not personally you understand) - they said they had hundreds unclaimed, and nearly all unnamed.

It's silly really.

mum2twinsx2

I have twins at school, one is really careful she ALWAYS has her stuff. Twin#2 yesterday came home in odd shoes! One of her own shoes and the other a patent one... day before she went in a summer dress and cardigan, came home in some boys school shorts and cardigan no tshirt underneath! Really makes me wonder what the teacher thinks... I have to make trip to lost property every Friday to reclaim twin#2`s belongings.
Im forever having to return cardigans that twin#2 has brought home.

flutterby_lil

Hopefully somebody else will be as honest as you and return your childs jumpers. My DS's stuff is always going missing from nursery too and never gets returned, despite being quite a posh nursery in a lovely village location.

xxlouisexx56

My dd also has special needs but is quite particular about her things and always brings it home.

Last week daddy hadnt done the washing whilst mummy was out so on Monday holly wore no cardi, but came back with someone else's on.

I sent it straight back

Our school are really good are sorting named lost property and send it back to the right classes

tom9980

Saidan your child is 4 which means his peers are 4-5 most likely. Its rare for children at that age to have a concept of looking after their things, even more so with special needs. Did you name tag his clothes????

Take PE it takes no joke about 20-30 minutes for them all to even get dressed properly by themselves let alone make sure to put their clothes in an orderly pile. Imagine dealing with upto 30 of them in this situation all wanting help and losing things!

You all need to realise there are a lot of children in the school all wearing practically identical uniforms how is a teacher supposed to keep track of who has what all the time especially when most parents do not put name tags in clothing despite being told to from day 1!

fly_dragon_fly

my sons school jumpers cost £12 a time and I bought 5 at the start of term, he now has only one official school jumper the rest are £3 plain blue knitted tesco ones because I just can't afford to buy jumpers, but these ones aren't lost so I don't know why his branded ones are.

But do you know what is worse, he once came home with the wrong shoe on to his other one and the teacher told me that some kids have the same shoes, which i understand but I'm not having some kids shoe that is 6 months old, I don't buy clarkes shoes to have them switched at school!

dizziblonde

tom9980 wrote: »

You all need to realise there are a lot of children in the school all wearing practically identical uniforms how is a teacher supposed to keep track of who has what all the time especially when most parents do not put name tags in clothing despite being told to from day 1!

Or when they come in, tell you a jumper's been lost - "but you'll find it easily, it's red with the school logo on and says size 4-5 years on the label"... head... desk....

But no - I'm not going raking lost property on an evening when I'm meant to be doing lesson prep for the next day - I'll reunite jumpers around the classroom, I'll get kids to do a sweep of the playground/field while the classes are lined up ready to go in at the end of break, I'll do my best to train them into being organised getting changed for PE (used to get them to dress their chair with the clothes they were taking off - so jumper and shirt over the back, socks inside shoes on the chair legs - they think it's hilarious to do this), nag them that if they remove their jumper for a milisecond they have to put it in their tray, and the like - but I draw the absolute line at spending hour after hour every single evening trying to track down jumpers that aren't named from a description of the pattern of yoghurt stains down the front.

As for the parent who had a child who genuinely, utterly, just didn't give a stuff about his belongings and would drop them everywhere, and just shrug, sneer and walk away from you (no SEN - just an utter attitude that the entire world was beneath him) when reminded that "you've left your clarinet on your desk" who rolled in with an itemised invoice of everything that she reckoned the school had allowed be "stolen" in one year (which was pretty much all found instantly the second the child was made to go check the area by the cloakrooms where he'd dumped it all)... or the one who screamed at a colleague of mine for 45 minutes, then the head for another 30 minutes and was last sighted heading to County Hall to scream there over a pair of £3 Asda PE shorts the school had offered to reimburse her for just to get a quiet life... it's not on to behave that way toward anyone - no matter how crappy a time you had at school.

And yes - by the nature of how people buy uniforms - you tend to find that they've all got T-Shirts from the same supermarket near the school, shoes from Clarks or whatever in whatever the 3-4 school styles they have in that year are, they're all a relatively similar size (so telling school that it's age-whatever in the jumper doesn't help much) and all in a similar range of colours... there's not much the class teacher can do about that - and even less when the screaming starts. Stuff that's labelled usually HAS just been put on by the wrong kid when they've all picked their jumpers up at the end of the day - and will just drift back into school the next day, or whenever someone does the laundry and realises - or a reminder can go out on school newsletters that "Jenny in Class 2's lost a jumper - can you check your child's got the correct one"... but un-named stuff... exactly what more do you want schools to do? A blanket ban on removing jumpers in the middle of the summer?! Can't imagine that going down too well.

delain

I had DD1s year 3 teacher (HOY3 and senco) tell me that they're putting the lost stuff out on the playground, and if we need anything just take it because they end up chucking a lot of it out and DD1 had somehow managed to put holes in 2 and lose a 3rd (named).

My beef with it is the poor quality... An unusual colour to try and find in a supermarket and the school specify logod ones. So over £97 I spent in the summer on logod things, and most of it now has missing buttons and twin 2 has chewed all the cuffs of her cardies to bits and no teachers seem to ask her not to, it must be all day because they are so damaged.

On the other hand if you tell a teacher something is missing they send the child toost property after reminding them it is their responsibility to look after their things, which imo is good

saidan

all my ds clothes are clearly labelled with tags on the inside collar - and name written in pen on the label inside too

anyways - i've ordered some tank tops for spring/summer (not seen another child wearing one so they should stand out as his) - and along with the school logo have decided to have his name embroided on the front too :rotfl:

it is a lovely village school, middle class - but of all the clothes lost over the years (older child also) only 1 piece has ever been returned to me by another parent!

xxlouisexx56

Just be thankful you can by supermarket cheapies.

My DD1 goes to a school that wears purple!! No supermarket stocks it at all. So jumpers, cardi, summer dress etc all have to come from the school shop, at enormous expense.