Since when?

Ours require a shoe, but the kids are getting away with trainers that are all black, I went down the proper flat traditional shoe route for year 7, but have conceded an adidas trainer shoe for year 8. I am braced for a note home though.
I think the ones you have posted the heel will be the issue. Kickers are fine in our school although I see others have posted that some schools they are not ok.

Same here and totally agree. Not to mention no to the silver buckle thing.

These aren’t school shoes.

According to ASOS they’re a 2 1/2 inch heel.

I wore these in school didn't realise they where I fashion again

You can't possibly think they are appropriate for an 11 year old in school. Crazy.

Heals and embellishment, definitely a no at my daughter schools - either of them.
Also air force ones wouldn't be allowed.

English schools seem sooooo strict compared to Scotland with their uniform/grooming policies, actually ridiculous.

Yeh agree with everyone that these are shoes with a heel – not allowed in OP's and most schools IME. OP is now buying trainers but still protests that these look smarter and are advertised as school shoes – actually if you filter “girls’ school shoes” on that website they don’t appear. I’m not sure who would think this sort of heel was OK for an 11yo. I don’t think they look smart, more impractical.

Nike trainers were not allowed in the schools I worked in nor the schools my DC attended but clearly they are in some schools. Can you check @McSteamyorMcdreamy – have you been sent a list or a photo, or is there one on the website?

To answer some of the other queries – IME the hairband rule is to stop ridiculous hair attire like those JoJo bows that were in vogue a while ago. I recall a load of year 6s coming in for induction day wearing them and they were advised they would need something plainer – just for practicality tbh. Sometimes it’s easier for a school to specify something super plain rather than be vague. I highly doubt that a student was put in isolation for the colour of their hair bobble.

Same with lads’ hair – we used to have a ban on the patterns being shaved in. I think it’s more reasonable to do this on a case-by-case basis tbh.

They do literally say adults heeled loafers - that would indicate not suitable for an 11 year old school child

I can't get past a school dictating the colour hair band never mind the shoes

Haha I literally said the same thing! They were the rage back then.

I can't believe you don't class these as having a heel 🤣

Mine would be sent straight home in those, not appropriate at all I am afraid.

Yeah it's obviously the heals.

Those are horrible shoes. School or not.
I love kickers, I wish they made them in a women’s 43.
but those are horrid.

Don’t you have a Clark’s where you live ?

You just can't have ridiculous shoes in school

It really doesn’t warrant that dramatic reaction

I’m sure someone else will have pointed it out (not west) but no 11yr old should be wearing heels, fashionable or not.
Kids feet are still growing, their bones will become deformed if specific enduring pressure is put on them. Heels put pressure on the metatarsal arch, it can even reverse. Please anyone considering ‘fashionable’ heels for a child, put the life long health of their feet first. Thank goodness schools would ban these.

My DBil had his own children’s shoe shop for 30+ years and says that trainers (good ones) are best for feet. Ditto a podiatrist I saw a few years ago, he said ASICS. So, regardless of being smart, they are better for feet according to the “experts” I have come across

I know you're signing off this topic OP but I think you're wrongly assuming that the school thinks trainers look smarter.

I would guess it's to do with allowing comfort level for children who are walking to/from school and for everyone generally just in the shoes all day.

Better for posture and development.

Also safety as others have said, re heel height.

My dds school has similar policy, black Nike on most people. In my day I think started first year in 3inch platform type!! Yes, 90's lol. When I think of it. And I did twist my ankle badly one morning!!

I wore very similar to school as a Yr 9/10 child but that was the 90s!

I suggest that there are some school leadership teams in serious need of detention in a secure hospital.

No, that's not OTT at all John.

Perfectly normal suggestion 😳🤣

£70 deffo not £120
Stop arguing - you can't be strong and wrong

Trainers are a 100% more appropriate than those high heels for an 11yr old. Ffs

Does the school say that trainers are "smarter" than high heeled loafers?

Do you honestly not understand that footwear is chosen or disallowed for more than just how they look.

You seem obsessed with looking "smart" which tbh is subjective, and completely missing the point that trainers are practical and leave little room for ambiguity.