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Must Have Back to School Essentials

Posted on 4 August 2022

The summer holidays have only just begun but it won’t be long before your little ones are heading back through the school gates. Whether they are in primary, secondary or even university it is always stressful trying to ensure that they have everything they need for the year ahead. We can’t help with the school uniforms but we have plenty of other products available that will get them through the upcoming school year.


Why Should You Get Personalised Back to School Items?

Before we go through our fantastic range of products, let's take a minute to look forward to the last week of the school holidays. You're sitting at home spending your evening labelling up every single item you have bought to ensure that you get everything back that your child takes to school with them. Buying personalised saves you a huge job! We have a great range of personalised products including stationary and water bottles which ensures your child's name appears clearly. Our products are all specially personalised and made to last so you don’t have to worry about labels falling off or peeling off in the wash. Make your life that little bit easier this year, buy personalised.

Personalised Stationery

The fundamental essentials for school start with a pen and pencil. This is the absolute bare minimum after uniform that your child needs for school. We have an extensive range of personalised pens and pencils ideal to ensure that your children keep hold of their writing instruments.

At Boutique Gifts we pride ourselves on having a fantastic collection of personalised pens. At school pens are an absolute necessity so why not get your child a personalised pen of 2 to ensure they keep track of where they are. We have a wide range of pens to suit all budgets but the best options for schools are probably our Parker jotters. We have a wide range of options to suit all tastes, from the traditional stainless steel jotter to a multitude of colours. Stand out with our bright yellow, pink, orange and blue jotter pens. Each of these pens can have laser engraved personalisation making them a great back to school gift. Ideal for someone moving up to secondary school or spreading their wings and going to university.

What better accompaniment to personalised pens and pencils than a notebook. We have a range of high quality A5 moleskine notebooks available with embossed initials on the cover. We offer 13 different colours of moleskine notebooks including professional standard black or a beautifully bright reef blue. We also have a great range of notebooks for your little ones with great colours and designs. From unicorns to llamas we have some great choices available. Bright pink unicorn notebook with blue closure and ribbon page marker. We also have adorable blue dreams and wish for a fairy notebook with a cute design. These notebooks each feature colourful designs perfect for children however these are non personalised options.

Other Personalised Back-to-School Essentials

Keeping hydrated during the day is vital, whether it's sitting in lessons, taking part in activity sessions or during PE sessions. We have a few different water bottles available with loads of unique designs to suit everyone. One of our most popular designs is moons and stars available with a pink and purple design or a blue and red. These white water bottles come with 2 different cap styles including a screw top with a carabiner clip allowing this to be clipped to their school bag. We have another great white water bottle available. This one is a tall slim 500ml bottle. This personalised heart water bottle features a heart which can be in grey, pink or blue and you can add their name to ensure it isn’t easily lost.

One for the older kids now, bags! Heading to school especially secondary requires books, pencil cases, drinks, food and all those other essential bits and pieces they cannot live without. A practical, durable bag is an absolute must and boy do we have the perfect bag for the job. Our large leather backpack shoulder bags are perfect for school. These bags offer 2 ways to wear tons of internal storage space. They are robust with strong handles, secure stitching and the highest quality Italian leather. This bag is available in a range of colours so ideal to suit any stubborn teens tastes. We have some typical school bag colours including black and brown or go for something a little more out there with blue. These backpacks are not only great quality but perfect for anyone prone to misplacing things or leaving their bag in a classroom, we will emboss their initials onto the bag with options available including gold and silver embossing.

No matter what age it is important to make sure your child heads back to school this September with everything they need to get through the year. We hope that this guide has been helpful. Personalised gifts are great for all occasions but adding permanent personalisation to school essentials is a sure fire way to help keep them safe, and save you time labelling.