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Hi how much did you end up spending on school uniform last September ? My cost was quite expensive because my son was starting secondary school so I had to buy him a full brand new uniform. How does my cost conpare to your cost ?
My sons uniform
school jumper £11×2
school polo shirt £9×3
school trousers £7×2
school shoes / plain black plimsolls £2
My sons school shoes
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Thats about right .. in fact you got off lightly.
When my 2 went to secondary school everything except shoes trousers/skirts & formal shirts for winter had to be bought directly from the school. The school jumpers alone were £15+ each !
No it was a state school not a private one.
2 kids x 2 of most things expensive.
Thank god for Asda BHS when it was trading. Sold good stuff at decent prices.
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My son went to one of Liverpool’s new academy schools. His school sold the whole uniform down to the socks for £85 this included the blazer , trousers, jumper and full PE kit. I thought this quite reasonable and saved me queuing up in busy uniform shops.
I do think these schools should be taken into hand about selling over priced uniforms and making a profit! , do kids in infant and primary really need school logos? you can get a children’s whole uniform from Asda or Tesco for around £10 yet these schools charge £15 for a basic sweatshirt with the school logo.
So far my daughter has sent her little one into school wearing Asda’s uniform. Parents are sick of children loosing items of clothing in school which never get returned! even with the child’s name inside.
When my daughter was in primary school she went to school in brand new sweatshirts in September … the year before some lovely parent had cut the labels out & passed it off as their own little darlings leaving my daughter with a tatty old thing that I wouldn’t use for rags !!!
So not only did I put the name in the back of the neck but also stitched it into a side hem inside.Same said little darling came in next day with a spanking new sweatshirt with no label in the neck.
I took great delight in approaching the childs mother in the playground & telling her her daughter had mistakenly taken the wrong sweatshirt. She protested til I said check the right hand side seam …. hahaha she went crimsom handed it back & scurried out of the playground totally shamed in front of the other mums!
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I do think these schools should be taken into hand about selling over priced uniforms and making a profit! , do kids in infant and primary really need school logos? you can get a children’s whole uniform from Asda or Tesco for around £10 yet these schools charge £15 for a basic sweatshirt with the school logo.
You should look up how ecconomies of scale work.
I do think these schools should be taken into hand about selling over priced uniforms and making a profit! , do kids in infant and primary really need school logos? you can get a children’s whole uniform from Asda or Tesco for around £10 yet these schools charge £15 for a basic sweatshirt with the school logo.
You should look up how ecconomies of scale work.
Why fgs we are having a coversation about school uniforms …. no need to prove points
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Why fgs we are having a coversation about school uniforms …. no need to prove points
I was explaining why customised uniforms are more expensive than supermarket ones.
It’s not to make a profit, although maybe some schools do this.
My son has to have the school jumper with the school logo and polo shirt with the school logo but the school trousers are from asda and the school shoes / pumps are from shoe zone.
My youngest is 21 this year so when he changed schools at 11 it was 10 yrs ago….I cant remember what I paid for his uniform but I can tell you it wasn’t cheap
Everthing had to be bought from the school or an approved Uniform shop except trousers and shirts and shoes
So long sleeved shirts for winter…short sleeved for summer….shirts meant ties…..Rugby kit with logo including rugby shoes…..cricket kit including the shoes…normal PE Kit with logo……obviously Blazer
I think most schools you had to buy the scientific calculators with other bits and bobs…do you have to buy those now or do schools provide them?
I don’t see why schools need logos on their PE Kits etc….blazer and tie yes…..plain polo shirts of whatever colour should be suffice for PE and other sports…lots of schools don’t have shirts anymore so tie isn’t necessary…lucky mums ….I hated ironing those bloody shirts lol
But good on Asda and Primark for cheap clothes….fast growing kids that age cost a fortune….and if they don’t grow out of them its not long before they are tatty
And before anyone says Primark use child labour in places like India….it is what it is….they get paid the going rate….if these companies didn’t produce in these countries…then the poor kids wouldn’t have any jobs and would be begging on the streets…that may sound harsh but its a reality….if your conscience doesn’t allow you to shop in Primark or Next then fair enough….I do…the poor have jobs and we get cheaper clothes….reality
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