How many school uniforms

[Liviam]

My little girl is starting school next year and I want to have her uniform organised & paid for by Nov as Dec/Jan are absolutely massive bill months for us so hoping to spread some of our costs out.

I have absolutely no idea how many she will need. They wear dresses and have a sports uniform of shorts/polo.

A school bag and hat too.

Also what kind of shoes? Do they wear closed in shoes with socks or sandals? She can't tie shoe laces yet.

OMG where do I start, LOL!!!

TIA,
A very vague first time mum

[Olive]

DD has:
Summer dress x2
Short sleeved school polo x1
Long sleeved school polo x2
Skort x1 (PE)
Winter tunic x1
Long pants x1 (PE)
Cotton button school cardigan x1
Polar fleeced jacket x1
School bag
Reusable lunch order bag
Library bag
Hat
Above was all purchase through school

White socks
Tights
Sneakers (PE)
Black school shoes -Clarks- first pair were Velcro, second pair have a buckle
Black netball nickers (Rio) to go over undies under summer dress and over tights in winter

[Liz]

I'll probably get 2 pinafores and 2 sets of shorts/shirt. With a midweek wash in there somewhere it should be plenty. We'll also get a bag, hat and jacket. Winter - I haven't decided whether to get the pinafore and tights or just do trackies which is cheaper

[sangie]

Hun I ordered DD's summer uniform only and I'll get winter uniform ordered early next year. If you are able to do that then it will be a lot cheaper and will spread the cost out a little bit.

I ordered through the school:
2 summer dresses
1 cardigan
1 short sleeve polo shirt
Hat
School bag
Smock
Library bag

I got 1 skort and 1 pair of shorts at target.

Shoes I'll either get velcro or buckle, not sure yet. She can't do laces yet either.
Hope that helps!

[maybebaby2012]

I usually try and get DD enough to go 4 days without washing She has three jumpers (one seems to be missing ) about 4 pairs of tights, and I always buy her one lot of dress shoes and one sneakers. She tends to wear the dress shoes for a month or so and then refuses to wear anything but sneakers for the rest of the year. She always has a couple of hats through the year too because she always manages to lose one. Ditto to water bottles! Grr. All named etc but I guess it just happens.

[Phteven]

You can start with the summer uniform and get the winter one later if you want to spread out the cost.

The boys each have 2x long pants and 2x shorts. 3xshirts. 2x jumpers. Sandals with a closed toe for summer and proper shoes for winter (but they often waer their runners not school shoes). Sun hats plus a spare. I find that hats are thing that go missing the most. I have lost count of the number of school hats I have bought so now I usually send them to school in a non-uniform hat because people don't seem to keep them.

I label things in several places.

[Liviam]

Thanks ladies. I think I'll only organise her summer uniform at the moment - great idea to further spread out the cost. I hadn't thought about an art smock or library bag. Will add those to my list as well.
I've just been reading over their school uniform policy. Girls have the option of dresses or shorts & polo. Maybe I should get her both?
And here I was thinking picking the school would be the hardest part, LOL!!
Sneakers & school shoes I will buy early next year too.

What labels are the best - sew on or iron on???

[Phteven]

I use a cloth shopping bag as a library bag. The school bags cost $35 dollars, the cloth bags cost $2.

[LuluHB]

I do summer now and winter later too. I'll be getting three dresses for I so I only have to do one midweek wash. Her PE uniform will be what she has been wearing this year as her day to day uniform. E will also be 5 days and she will have 3 sets, although they wear polo with shirts/tracky dacks until year 1.

I've got iron on labels from Stuck on You the last couple of years. I's from two years ago are still doing well, which I think is pretty good given the clothes are worn haaaaard and washed and usually in the dryer at least once a week. Just a tip though - order early. Miss E had already started school before her stuff from SOY arrived.

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

Liebling has 3 sets of jumpers, polo shirts and trousers. 2 pairs of shorts. 10 pairs of school socks (OK, my organisation of wash at the weekend and into the drawers by Monday is not perfect). One PE kit, kept at school (but needs replacing as he's growing).

He has sew-in labels, so I can take them off and sew in Stormy's name when that time comes around. Cos even if we have a girl, she'll still need jumpers and polo shirts: the summer dresses, winter tunics and skirts will have to be new but I'll be part-way there.

Liebling has a non-school coat, hats and PE bag. Well, he finds it easier to find his stuff that way - a cloakroom of 24 red coats, 24 red bags and 24 red hats is a bit overwhelming!

[Astrid]

It is hard to know what to buy, till you know what they will wear. DD1 loves dresses, so she wears the summer tunic, but wont wear skorts. For winter techincally there was just trackies, or the summer dress with tights. Thankfully we got a winter tunic added to the uniform guidelines. If only I knew what she would wear, I would not have wasted money on skorts or tracksuit pants (well except for one pair of gym pants).

Oh, what we have bought it similar to Olive's list - no need to repeat

[Liviam]

Ok what are skorts???

[Astrid]

Skirts crossed with shorts. Looks like wide pleated skirt from the front. There are also netball style ones, that are flat across the front and sport material, as opposed to the more structure tunic fabric.

[Mother Goose]

I got my DD 1 pair of skorts (shorts with a flap on front to look like a skirt), 1 polo shirt, 2 dresses, 1 bomber jacket (press studs which are easier than pulling a top over her head which she struggles with), a hat, school bag, reader cover. Her art smock I got from a craft market.

For shoes, let me know what size O is because I have a pair of black velcro shoes in good condition that DD outgrew by the end of term 2! At our school the kids can wear normal runners or black shoes. We got her black runners with velcro. Now she just wears white runners.

Towards the end of Term 1 I bought her 2 pairs of track pants and 2 extra polo shirts. Then I went to a local uniform shop that sells stuff without having to buy the school logo (because school isn't strict - so long as they are in the right colour!) and got 2 more trackie pants and a green zip up jacket. I've since had to buy 2 more pair of pants because she put holes in 3 of the other pairs!

And don't forget little bike shorts or similar for under her dresses I bought them really cheap from Kmart.

Let me know about her shoe size and if the ones I have are the right size, I'll post them

[nothing2lose]

I pretty much have a uniform for each day because I can't stand seeing kids in grotty clothes before they've even started the school day and I am not one for mid week washing. The uniforms invariably get dirty.

I would also wait to see what she wants to wear (usually after seeing what everyone else is wearing) before investing heavily in multiple items. You don't want to be stuck with summer dresses if she only wants to wear skorts or shorts, for instance.

[shellbell3]

We have for summer 1x dress, 2x polo tops and 1x skort plus thin blue cardy for when its bit chillier
Winter we have 1x tunic, 2x pants plus reuse the polo tops with skivvy's underneath, plus 2x zip up tops.

Have bought school bag, art smock, sun hat, school shoes, runners, white socks, stockings, black little sports shorts for under dress.

How strict is the school with wearing the exact uniform from their uniform shop cause you can get cheaper school stuff at Target or Big W.

[Butterfly Dawn]

goodness.
how much does the uniforming cost? ave?
Im gonna need to think about this and work the cost in somewhere. got 2boys to do

[Liz]

I pretty much have a uniform for each day because I can't stand seeing kids in grotty clothes before they've even started the school day and I am not one for mid week washing.

Haha I wash every 1-2 days so midweek isn't a problem here. But yep, clean clothes each day except for jumper/jacket which lasts a few days. I also don't change DS when he gets home in the afternoon.. Don't see the point in doubling my washing load with play clothes!

As for hand me downs - I have no high hopes of hand me downs to dd. Trackies get holes in the knees, polo's are stained and have even been snipped with scissors I think! But we've had 2 yrs out of ds's uniform so I reckon that's pretty good heh.

No labels here as everything came with a space on the tag for their name so just did laundry marker on the tag.