QBS Summer Uniform

angelsnowy

My daughter is going to a Year 1 student in QBS next school year. I have just received the information regarding the purchase of summer uniform in QBS and realized there are quite a lot of items to buy.

Could any parents of QBS students share your experience and let me know which items are compulsory/practical/impractical to buy?

I particularly want to know the following:

1. I saw from the QBS pix that most students are wearing short sleeves blouse+ culottes. Is it a must to buy the summer dress as well? Do they serve the same purpose? Or in which circumstances are summer dress/blouse+culottes required to wear?

2. How many days of a week are they required to wear uniform and PE uniform in general? Do you have any suggestion on how many set of uniform/PE uniform to buy?

3. Are the house colors assigned by the school and to be known on induction day? Will sibling entered afterwards usually be assigned in the same house or upon request?

4. Are white socks to be worn with both summer uniform and PE uniform? Any specific requirement on the length and design?  

5. Are QBS school bag, raincoat and the Eco-friendly book bag compulsory to buy? If not, any restriction if I want to buy these from outside?

I would be grateful if anyone could share their experience so I can buy the appropriate items! Thanks a lot!

angelsnowy

I see~~~ no wonder why it's so big! Guess the school bag design's really good! But it's really too huge for year 1s~ haha

Activehealth

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They need a big bag for their packed lunch/water bottle/snack box, as there is no tuck shop/cafe or even vendor machine at school. Plus, kids like my boy borrow heaps of great thick books for home reading and from library and need a big bag for the purpose. Also, they have show and tell, plus craft work that they have to take used containers/tissue boxes etc back to school as materials at times.
Otherwise have to use a separate carry bag as needed. Some kids do it that way.

angelsnowy

I see! Great, then!

I actually don't mind year 1s having compulsory school bags but my gal tried the QBS school bag on the induction day and it's huge like a camping backpack for her! (Consider she's kinda average height for her age)

Activehealth

Thanks ky_lau & angelsnowy for your kind wishes!
Honestly, they are not strict on the raincoats at all. As you said, they only use the raincoats to keep themselves dry when they get on & off the bus in the rain. I have seen all sorts.
No one seems to get into trouble for wearing the wrong type of raincoat.

angelsnowy

Thanks for your reply in details! That really helps a lot!

As for the raincoat, do you mean only plain colored blue raincoats are allowed? I thought most of the time, they used raincoats after school (then probably got on school bus) so maybe it's alright to wear their own raincoats, or is it to be strictly followed?

Wish your boy a bright beginning next school year, too!~~~

ky_lau

原帖由 Activehealth 於 15-05-31 發表
本帖最後由 Activehealth 於 15-5-31 17:14 編輯

My boy is in Year 6 QBS NOW, moving to South Island ...

Good luck to your son and wish him a great start at SIS!!!

Activehealth

My boy is in Year 6 QBS NOW, moving to South Island School after the summer holiday. He loves QBS and his studies. It's a very closed knit community in QBS. All the new year 1s, big welcome to QBS
Answers to angelsnowy's questions
1.Parents either buy the blouse-culottes or the summer dress, culottes have elastic top.
2. They have 2 PE days per week plus after school sports activities as well (voluntary), need at least three sets of PE uniforms. Choose the navy blue shorts instead of white as they sit on the floor a lot.
3. House  colours assigned on Induction Day. Siblings are always assigned to same house.
4. White socks (short) in summer and navy blue socks in winter. Girls can wear navy blue knee hi socks or stockings in the winter.
5. The principal told school that the QBS school bags are compulsory, thus most new schools use. Otherwise, some older kids use their own cartoon style back packs and are fine. Blue raincoat needed and QBS raincoat is ideal as it covers the back pack as well. Book bags are compulsory, blue for general and red for Chinese. They have home reading books every day and lots of loose papers of crafts, classwork, etc. it's essential to use the book bags (they are sturdy) to protect the borrowed books and paper work. Folders won't work.
Hope that the answers help you

angelsnowy

Anyone got any idea if there's an elastic band on the waist of the culottes?

angelsnowy

It would be nice if we all keep in touch and join the group chat ky_lau suggested, be friends and remind each other the latest news from QBS~

angelsnowy

So which school is your daughter studying right now?

iamworkingmama

Thank you bomani!

bomani

iamworkingmama 發表於 15-5-20 11:40
Thank you bomani!
So which one should we buy? Sleeveless dress or blouse + culottes? Or either one o ...

I would say I'll go with the blouse and culottes first.

iamworkingmama

Thank you bomani!
So which one should we buy? Sleeveless dress or blouse + culottes? Or either one of them is ok?

bomani

My daughter is going to be in Y1 this summer, too. Basically this is my understanding in terms of uniform, correct me if I am wrong.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xTykRATkadg/VUbsdYtPsGI/AAAAAAAAEr0/ZLsdypXj-5E/s1600/004.JPG

Girl on the left: short sleeve blouse with culottes

Girl on the right: summer dress

Girls are supposed to wear black leather shoes with white socks


Girls at the upright corner: P.E. T-shirt with P.E. shorts, white sneakers and white socks are required


I've no idea about the sweatshirt and knitted vest though.

ky_lau

Hi angelsnowy, my gal comes from local school so thinking how to get her adapted easier to esf.

Her name is Kaitlyn. Please send me your number if you wanna join the whatsapp group :)

ky_lau

Hi both, will you go to the induction day on 28th?  I've opened a whatsapp group chat with another mama.

Please pm me your number if you are interested to join 😊

rollingcat

Not allow black sport shoes ga!!

Rowena

原帖由 iamworkingmama 於 15-05-19 發表
Thank you so much Rowena!

You are welcome. Pls see post upstairs.

Rowena

原帖由 angelsnowy 於 15-05-19 發表
Thanks a lot for your sharing, Rowena! That helps a lot!

You are welcome. Also, it doesn't matter if you are missing some items, i think the PTA shop is open during school hours for further purchases.