Do our primary school cater for girls hitting puberty and beyond? Discuss

[lexcat]

Three problems I have come across so far:

Uniform: Set or logo uniform not going up to bigger sizes. DD school sweaters go to 13 then it's a small adult which you have to pay VAT on.

Changing: Who child still changes in the classroom right the way up to Y6. I mean some Y6 are young women and having to change with the boys.

Sanitary bins: Yes primary school girl do have periods, very few a year I know, but they should be catered for. DD school only has then in the staff toilets.

[gingernutlover]

re the uniform, I dont think thats really the schools fault is it - all adult size clothes have VAT on them.

the changing should be seperate for year 6 (our year5/6 class changes seperately)

Sanitary bins - our girls are told they can pop inot the staff loo to use the san bin and they seem happy with this.

[weegiemum]

Uniform isn't an issue for us, as the school logo stuff comes up quite big, so should fit my dds until they go to secondary at 11-12.

Changing - in our school the boys and girls change seperately from p4 - (year 3) as that is when they are no longer"infants", but "juniors".

Sanitaty bins - I'm about to contact the school about this as my dd1, who is 10, is definitely developing puberty symptoms (spots, breast development) and is worried enough about what to do if her period starts at school. There's no sign of it yet (apart from the moodiness) but we went to buy towels and she carries one discreetly in her schoolbag. But there are no bins to dispose of them in. They haven't had any talks at school about this sort of thing yet, and she is by no means the most developed girl in her class, so I'm going to email to ask what happens about this.

[lexcat]

Sorry but I can't imagine any young girl wanting to use a staff toilet. Starting your period is embarrassing for most girls let alone having to draw attention to the fact by using the staff loos.

As for Y6 only changing separate what about Y5 and Y4. DD is Y4 and started to wear a crop top as she starting to develop. Luckily they have separate changing for Y4 plus at dd school.

[titchy]

Our primary has a sanitary bin in one of the girls' cubicles, has seperate changing from year 5 (male teacher vacates the girls' changing area as well). Uniform hasn't really been an issue, logo stuff goes up to 36" chest I think, and I don't think anyone would bat an eyelid at a pupil wearing a same colour non-logo sweater.

[Galena]

Our school is the same as titchy - Sanitary bin in one girl's cubicle in both Y5 and Y6 toilets, separate changing from Y5 and non-logo sweaters fine.

Also, secretary has stock of towels in case a girl is caught short.