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LitePak XS
The smallest LitePak — the same back system as its bigger siblings, scaled down.
£42.00
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1–3 year Warranty on Bags
Every bag carries a warranty against manufacturing and material faults.
Quick and easy delivery
Ordered before 13:00 on a working day, packed and dispatched the same day.
School bags built for the whole school year
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Three bags account for more than half of everything that leaves our unit in Chertsey. All three share the same moulded back system.
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The rest of the range
One from each of the four ranges — the wide-opening backpack, the sixth form satchel, the sports bag with a sealed wet compartment, and the smart carry bag.
Why these backpacks
Backpacks come first. Everything else in the range keeps them clean.
A school backpack is worn for roughly 190 mornings a year, loaded with somewhere between two and eight kilograms, by a body that is still growing. That single fact decides what we stock.
Every backpack we sell is judged on its back panel and harness before anything else — the rest of the bag has to work around them, not the other way round. The panel is closed-cell foam, shaped into pads with a ventilation channel between them, over a semi-rigid sheet that stops a ring-binder corner pressing into the spine.
Books load against that sheet, close to the back, where the weight does least damage. Shoulder straps are contoured, wide at the shoulder and tapered to webbing, with 8 to 12 centimetres of adjustment, so a bag bought in Year 3 still fits in Year 6. Nothing here is decoration: if a part does not carry load or keep water out, it is not on the bag.
- Padded, ventilated back panels on every backpack from the 8 litre Kinderpak to the 41 litre DuoPak.
- Load carried high and close — deep-cut bodies, side compression straps, and hip belts on the two largest models.
- Bar-tacked load seams and coil zips with metal sliders, because the zip is what fails first on a cheap bag.
- Repairable, not disposable — stitched bases and replaceable base panels covered by the warranty.
23Models we stock
4Product ranges
3 yrMaximum warranty
2024Registered in England
Customer reviews
What parents tell us in September — and in July
Reviews left by customers after at least one full term of use. We ask everyone the same question: is the bag still doing its job?
Third year of use and it has been through two children. The back panel still has its shape and the zips run as well as they did in September of the first year. I have stopped buying supermarket bags entirely.
Rachel M.
Guildford · LitePak Medium
Bought the Maxi specifically for the separate kit compartment. It genuinely works — the rugby kit comes home in the bottom and the exercise books arrive dry. Worth every penny of the difference.
David O.
Reading · Maxi
My daughter is small for Year 4 and every other bag sat halfway down her back. The Junior actually fits her. Ordered in red with her initials on the front pocket and she has not taken it off since.
Sarah K.
Woking · Junior
The Olympic has done two seasons of swimming club, four away tournaments and a week in Wales. It still stands up on its own. The frame around the top makes packing it at six in the morning much less of a fight.
Priya S.
Staines · Olympic
The full-width opening is the feature I did not know I needed. My son can find a book without unpacking the whole bag onto the pavement. The separate laptop section is well padded and easy to get at.
Tom H.
Weybridge · OmniPak
We are on our fourth bookbag in three years, but only because the school changed colour twice. This one has outlasted all of them and the magnetic flap is far quieter than Velcro in a reading corner.
Claire B.
Chertsey · Premier Folio
Read before you buy
Two things worth five minutes of your time
The backpack range
Eleven backpacks, and how to choose between them
Kinderpak to DuoPak — 8 litres to 41 litres. Each one is listed with its capacity, back length, empty weight and the school years it was designed for, so you can match the bag to the child instead of guessing at a size label.
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Back care
How a school bag should be packed, fitted and worn
The 10% rule, why the heaviest book goes closest to the spine, how high the bag should sit and what a correctly adjusted sternum strap actually does. Five minutes here saves a lot of complaints about shoulders later.
Read the back care guideAdd a name to it and it comes home again
Embroidered initials, a full name or a name and school year, stitched onto the front panel before the bag leaves us. £4.50 per bag, six thread colours, no extra dispatch time.