Back To School Shopping At Silverlink Shopping Park

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This September I have three lots of uniforms to buy as my youngest  has just turned four and will be starting school along with his two older sisters. I am normally so organised for back-school but this year I am not at all and had not even started buying anything, other than placing an order for school jumpers. I still had skirts, trousers, shirts, PE kits, stationery and everything else to buy for all three children.

 I really did not fancy a shopping trip into the city centre with three children in tow so I decided to head to Silverlink Shopping Park in North Tyneside instead. 

Silverlink Shopping Park is a big shopping park in North Tyneside, near the Tyne Tunnel. It has plenty of free on-site parking and it is always easy to find a parking place, it also has lots of big named stores such as M&S, Next, JD, Sports Direct, River Island, H&M and New Look to name just a few. Making it the ideal place to head for some back to school shopping with the family. 

First up we headed to Marks and Spencer's, this is my go-to shop for school uniform as I have found it always washes well and lasts. We picked up uniform for all three children here, as they had black senior school skirts for my teen, grey pleated skirts for my five-year-old and grey trousers for my little boy. 

We also browsed the winter coat section as the younger two will be needing new winter coats soon and we always buy them from Marks and Spencer. There was also a great range of backpacks in store and lots of lunch boxes and water bottles too. 

 

We also headed to Wilko to stock up on lots of stationery for my teen, pens, pencils, rulers and highlighters were all added to the basket and were surprisingly reasonably priced. 

We browsed River Island and New Look for back to school bags and shoes for my teen and JD and Sports Direct for trainers and PE Kits. We managed to get most of our back to school shopping done in the one place in just a couple of hours, it was so stress-free and convenient. Which is what is needed when shopping with children. 

One of the reasons we regularly shop at Silverlink Shopping Park is that there is no parking charge, so we can take our time browsing the shops without worrying about topping up a parking meter again. I also like that there is a good range of shops and also places to eat too such as McDonald's, M&S cafe and the adjacent Silverlink Leisure Park which has an Odean Cinema, Pizza Hut and Nandos. Meaning we could treat the children to a trip to see the Incredibles and for a Frankie & Benny's for behaving whilst shopping. 

If you still have some back to school shopping to do ready for the new term starting in September then I do recommend a trip to Silverlink Shopping Park, we found it stress-free with no crowds and we managed to get everything we wanted easily as they had so much choice in the stores we visited.