P.E. Kit Hygiene

[Tealady]

My DD is just 6 and in year 1. She does PE once a week, more often if the opportunity arises (although according to my DD it never does).

It has been a bit of a bone of contention with her class because the teacher insists that the kit is bought home once a week on a Thursday the day they do PE to be washed and bought back on Monday so its there if needed.

There a snotty comment in this weeks Year 1 newsletter complaining that teachers were wasting too much time looking for PE kits that weren't there so could we ensure we remember to send them in on a Monday.

Am I (and the Mums I talk to) being "dirty" in thinking we don't need to have these home every week to wash? They only do a bit of climbing and jumping off equipment indoors so hardly get dirty or sweaty?

What with reading books, spelling books, forest school gear , swimming kit (this and the forest school gear does need sorting weekly), show and tell items, hats, scarfs, gloves, wellies & money for various things...don't we have enough to remember???

[Gherkin]

LOL we have to remind our lot to bring them home as the teachers would never send the kits home.

[Velleity]

My school sends them home once a TERM.
I have to ask every couple of weeks if I can have it

[onceinabluemoon]

My mindees school sends them home at the end of every half term.

[blue bear]

Its school holidays only here for Pe kit washing.

[breezy]

Ours only come home at school holidays!

[sonia ann]

every half term for indoor pe kits but the games kit goes in only on the day they have outdoor games and comes home the same day

[kellib]

Ours only come home in school holidays too!

[Pipsqueak]

I'm lucky if I see PE kit once a term....

[waterwaybabies]

i always washed my kids pe stuff every week by choice [but that was before i was minding full time.lol]

now i wash buggy and car seat covers.
bit ocd i think.lolxxx

[singingcactus]

Ours get sent home weekly too. (I must be dirty too cos I just send it back on the monday - unless teeshirt is all screwed up in which case I pop in a clean one) I wash it every few weeks.

Ours only send them home so that the janitor can clean the cloakroom properly, without all the bags in the way.

[amanda1309]

Ours come home every holiday

[mama2three]

Ours is every week. Good job too , you should see the state of it when it comes out of the bag! Ds's school does a mix of indoor and outdoor pe , so its occasionally muddy - but even when its relatively clean its a screwed up mess , not wearable the following week. Never met a y1 child who can fold their kit back up and get it back in those bags neatly without it coming out resembling a dishcloth.

[rickysmiths]

I always washed them once a week because they have been used I would hate to put on a shirt that had been sitting in a bag with smelly shoes etc for half a term.

Wait till you have a teenagers games kit I wonder if you would leave that half a term

[Chimps Childminding]

At our first school (upto end of year 5) they only sent the pe kit home at the end of each half term to be washed. Once my sons moved onto middle school they took it backwards and forwards as they needed it, together with the books they needed each day! Having sad that my sons are dirt magnets so it needed washing every week anyway!!!

[christine e]

Ours send home every week which is a nightmare on a Monday morning when they all come to me with book bag, lunch bag and PE kit so I can have 3 or 4 children with 3 bags each to fit in the car!

Cx

[PixiePetal]

when my kids were young I used to have a nosy in the bag on a Friday and see if it looked like it could last another week mostly left it there but always home every half term.

sometimes folded the t shirt and made sure all as in there or search lost property for items.

High school it comes home after every use - some kids leave it in a locker - can you imagine the smells in there

[Tippy Toes]

Once a week is too much! Like you said we have enough to remember for school as it is! And they dont get dirty in a week do they? They only use it once in that time.

My chidrens school never send the kits home, I have to ask my son to fetch it home.

[LOOPYLISA]

I always washed them once a week because they have been used I would hate to put on a shirt that had been sitting in a bag with smelly shoes etc for half a term.

Wait till you have a teenagers games kit I wonder if you would leave that half a term

Weekly here too with a 14yrold

[Tealady]

I always washed them once a week because they have been used I would hate to put on a shirt that had been sitting in a bag with smelly shoes etc for half a term.

Wait till you have a teenagers games kit I wonder if you would leave that half a term

I do check it to see what condition it's in as I do tend to freshen it up half way through the half term. As she gets older she will definately be bringing it home after every wear.

Also her shoes are not smelly as they have never been worn as they do PE bare foot Even last week when she told her teacher she had a verruca she still had to do it bare foot. Funny to have a teacher so hot on hygiene that she wants the PE kit home but then won't let a child with a highly contagious thing like a verruca wear her pumps. Hmmm wonder if that's how she got it in the first place...