What do you have to take to school?

Girls who attend St John's Girls School in County Cork in Ireland are going to be packing more than just their lunches and PE kits for school from now on.

That's because their school has asked them to bring in their own toilet paper to help cut costs.

So we want to know if you have ever had to take anything unusual to school.

Have you been asked to take in your own equipment or maybe you have taken some fun things in to show your teacher and classmates.?

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Your comments

"We have to bring our own pens to school but I think it's silly having to bring toilet paper to school!"

Beth, 13, Cornwall, England

"I don't think they should bring tissue to school because it's wasting your money."

Rachel, 13, Oxfordshire, England

"I don't think that's a very appropriate thing to do. Bringing tissues and hand sanitisers for the H1N1 virus is alright, but bringing TOILET ROLL!! That's going a bit OTT."

Ciara, 9, Ballynacally, Ireland

"We have to take our own guitar in for guitar lessons and our own fruit for play time."

Sean, 8, Gateshead, England

"We have to take a healthy snack and water bottle but everything else school provides, and we choose to bring in pencil cases!"

Maggie, 10, Chiswick, England

"We have to take all our books, stationery, PE kit on PE days, lunch if we have packed lunches, National entitlement card, money for lunch if we have school dinners, containers for food tech... it's so annoying!"

Carra, 13, Dundee, Scotland

"I take my books, pencil case, ingredients (if we are cooking), folders, lunch and shin guards (if we have PE)! My bag isn't too heavy but if I get loads of homework it is very heavy in the morning."

Aisling, 12, Galway, Ireland

"My bag is so heavy, I have back pain now. I'm quite small but my bag is very heavy, full of textbooks, PE kit, exercise books, lunch and more. Most girls bring handbags now though."

Alexa, 13, Exmouth, England

"I have to bring my pencil case, planner, lunch, drink, a book for every lesson (and we have five lessons a day), PE kit AND trainers. On food tech day we have to bring ingredients. I think our bags are way too heavy."

Rhiannon, 13, Torfean, Wales

"I have to take all my ingredients if we are cooking, a USB for our IT lessons, we buy all our own folders for PSHE, football boots which we only use for six weeks, special shin pads WITH ankle protection, and a fleece that has the school logo on it for PE."

Sabrina, 12, Middlesex, England

"I have to bring my swimming things on Thursday but appart from that I bring the usual things."

Anne, 9, Manchester, England

"We have to take our books, pencil case, planner, PE kit, dinner card and ingredients for food tech. I think the bags are WAY to heavy for us to carry."

Alice, 11, Oxford, England

"We have been given mini laptops - netbooks - to take to school instead of books now."

Heather, 13, Skipton, England

"For school, I have to take my own pencil case with pens, ruler, sharpener, rubber and a note book. We have to take all our books and we have some spare stuff."

Hannah, 10, New Malden, England

"I have to take my bag, my lunch, my coat and my homework."

Molly, 10, Cardiff, Wales

"For school, I have to take my own pencil case with pens, ruler, sharpener, rubber, etc. We also have to take all our books, and we have some extras. For example, we take a map for geography and a dictionary for French/Spanish and a special calculator for maths."

Molly, 11, Ipswich, England

"My student ID card, my soccer kit, my books and a spare pair of socks."

Abbie, 13, Ohio, USA

"I have to take my 13 books, my laptop, iPod and my planner and PE kit."

Amy, 14, London, England

"On Tuesday I go to football, on Wednesday we do PE at school and on Friday I cross country run. I don't really have to bring anything except PE kit."

Mahira, 9, London, England

"My bag weighs a ton! I have to bring five textbooks and a PE kit which has all my fencing utensils in! I also bring all the Harry Potter books which are really heavy! Also, once I had to bring a rat into school, it was horrible, I have a phobia of rats! Something needs to be done about the weight of schoolbags and soon!!!"

Chantal, 13, Oxford, England

"I think that we have to carry too much to school. I have a bad back, I am really small so it's really heavy."

Ellis, 11, Somerset, England

"Hello people. My school bag consists of an orange pencil case, with 10 pencils, and 10 coloured pencils, then a pack of 20 felt tips and a 30cm ruler. I have a blue bag, and about seven books not including my school books I like to read. "

Dobby, 14, Manchester, England

"I have to take pens, pencils, rulers, correction fluid, colouring pens and felt tips, sharpeners, compasses, exercise books, PE kit when I have it, cooking food and my planner."

Isildur, 13, Wales

"My textbooks (five to eight), my PE kit sometimes, fencing and PE kit on Mondays, books to read, drawing pad, workbooks (five), pencil case, ruler, calculator, art file, iPod, and a phone. A lot I guess."

Lucy, 12, Northern Ireland

"I take my phone, iPod, planner, books, blazer, pencil case, and money!!"

Elle, 13, Liverpool, England

"I have to bring a binder, textbooks, lunch, and other things on special days."

Fiona, 9, Massachusetts, USA

"I once had to take in a sheep's eyeball and a pig's heart to dissect!! Gross!!"

Hannah, 14, England

"I have to take six books, two pencil cases, two geometry sets, one calculator, and six more books for work all my homework and now my lunch. I have loads of stuff. I have only been at my high school for one month and I have already gotten through three bags and now I need a fourth."

Georgia, 11, Staffordshire, England

"I bring my laptop, cell phone, keys, iPod and all my textbooks and just random stuff!"

Ally, 13, Chicago, USA

"I take a pencil case, iPod, phone, at least five books, two folders, PE kit and lunch to school. It hurts my shoulders and back so much!"

Amy, 13, Surrey, England

"I have my school books, my homework diary, a reading book, pens, pencils, rulers, calculator, colouring pencils, PE kit, trainers, lunch money, phone, iPod, folders and this week I have to bring in a PLANT POT!"

Litera, 12, Cheshire, England

"My school bag is usually pretty heavy because I go to high school and forgot to put my name down for a locker. I have to carry all my jotters, folders and books, my homework diary, my PE kit, my calculator, some pens and pencils, lunch or lunch money AND my jacket. My bag gets pretty full and heavy!"

Skye, 12, Glasgow, Scotland

"Well, I take all my books and stationary and all the normal stuff I need for school. I probably wouldn't be impressed if I was asked to bring my own loo roll though!"

Katie, 12, England

"I take my lunch, water bottle, book, and homework books but toilet roll is not on my list!"

Esmee, 9, Wiltshire, England

"Books, stationery, folders, projects, PE kit, lab coat, food apron, old t-shirt for art, tracksuits for drama, guitar for guitar lessons, you name it, I carry it!"

Izzi, 13, Essex, England

"I think it's just really weird."

Ben, 8, Scotland

"I think it's wrong because toilet paper is part of the school and I understand packs of tissues, but toilet paper isn't right. If they need more money they should do fund-raising."

Jade, 13, Lincoln, England

"When I go to school I have to take my pencil case, pencils, a rubber, a sharpener, pens, a PE kit, lunch or money, and maybe a dictionary as well."

Kia, 11, Scotland

"I have to take whiteboard spray cleaner to school!!!"

Lexi, 10, USA

"In my school there is no toilet paper whatsoever, we have to ask the school nurse to get some."

LLoyd, 11, Wales

"I take the usual stuff and I take hand sanitising lotion (I hate having unclean hands!)"

Katie, 12, Yorkshire, England

"The usual, although once I had to bring in some soap to carve into!"

Abbie, 10, Hertfordshire, England

"I take loads of stuff to school. Mum's always complaining about how heavy it is. Taking your own toilet roll is just silly!!!"

Emily, 12, West Midlands, England

"I think the toilet paper plan is unfair because you've got to carry a lot of stuff to school and it will cost lots of money so what's the point."

Elliott, 11, Norwich, England

"My school used to be uniform-free, but now you must wear uniform because that's what our head teacher started(rather strict). I take my pencil case, bag, books, kit and change of shoes."

Beauty, 10, Manchester, England

"I have to take all my normal equipment e.g. ruler, pencil, pen. In junior school we had to bring in boxes of tissues."

Hanna, 12, Surrey, England

"I'm at boarding school, so I have to bring basically EVERYTHING! I have to take three suitcases at the beginning of term just to fit my clothes in!"

Tom, 10, Newcastle, England

"I take my mobile, folder, lunch, pencil case, jumper, planner and book! Just what any other high school student takes!"

Amy, 11, Norwich, England

"I take my books, pencil case, PE kit, lunch money, folders and lab coat. I take my phone so my friends can bluetooth me songs and I can get calls off my parents. My friends take their iPods sometimes."

Maybella, 12, Birmingham, England

"My bag is so heavy. One day I couldn't even get it closed it was that over packed. It is so annoying with all these books, jotters and folders! Ahhhhh!"

Jordan, 14, Glasgow, Scotland

"We have to take our books, pencil cases, lunch and planner with us. But when we have models or something as homework we have to carry that in too. Once I had to carry a huuuuggeee clay volcano. That wasn't much fun!"

Lucy, 12, England

"I just take the usual stuff like stationery."

Jessica, 12, Northamptonshire, England

"At my school we have to take three English books and two English booklets with us! For maths our textbook weighs a ton, it has 846 pages!!!!!"

Caitlin, 12, England

"I had to bring in food because our kitchen was broken."

Harry, 11, Bristol, England

"In my school you have to bring all your own pens, pencils etc."

Dan, 13, UK

"We have to take loads of books, folders, pencil cases, calculators, PE kit etc. My bag is soooo heavy that it makes my chair tip over!!"

Emily, 12, Lancaster

"Yeah, I've heard of people in Cork having to take in their own toilet paper. Some are actually scared of going to the toilet because of swine flu! I always take my pencil case, homework books, and my drawing folder or stuff that I do at home, because I like showing random stuff to my friends."

Justine, 10, County Louth

"I take a pencil case, folder and lunch. Not that interresting... lol!"

Tasia, 10 (very nearly 11), England

"We have to bring our own tissues!"

Hannah, 13, Oswestry

"We have to bring all our equipment like pens, pencils, ruler etc and your PE kit. We don't have to take toilet roll to school but lots of people do take some spare tissues because there is hardly ever any roll left in the toilets."

Jasmine, 13, UK

"I had to take in a jigsaw puzzle!!!"

Jenny, 12, Surrey, England

"I take a pen, pencil, planner, ruler, bag, felt-tips, homework and if I need to, my PE kit."

Shaun, 14, Cheshire, England

"I have to take everything that I want to school because I go to a boarding school."

Regina, 12, England