I must ring our school clothing store to find out what is their best selling item. My guess is the school hat. School hats are compulsory all year at our school. If you forget or lose your hat you have to sit under the COLA (covered outdoor learning area) all lunchtime and you are excluded from all outside sport/learning activities. It's a big deal.
Two weeks ago Padawan Learner lost not only his main hat, but his spare hat. For the last two weeks he has been wearing the spare spare hat. Why do we have so many spare hats? Whenever one of the kids loses a hat I wait as long as possible before purchasing a new one. This time I waited two weeks, during that time I looked in lost property every day, sent a note in to the teacher, checked the playground everyday before pickup. No, this time, definately lost. The spare spare hat is too small and is "a bit girly" according to PL.
Yesterday morning I lined up with the other parents to buy a new hat. Yesterday afternoon Padawan Learner came home with Hat No. 1; this morning Hat No. 2 turned up on his hook. I'm thinking there is a clothing shop conspiracy going on here.
This is not the first time this has happened. The kids have lost every school hat we've ever bought, and'found it' again after I've purchased a new one. We are now the proud owners of FIVE school hats. And the school clothing shop is laughing all the way to the bank.
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Queenie had the one school hat the whole way from 4yo kinder through to Year 2. She never lost it once...until three days before the end of Year 2 (i.e just before we left to go to Perth). Perhaps someone saw an opportunity to obtain a 'spare' hat and arranged for it to go missing?
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