School bans wearing jumpers between after Easter and before Oct half term

I find it utterly bizarre that most primary schools allow 4-5 year olds the autonomy to put on a jumper or not but this is a secondary school refusing to allow the older kids the same. If they’re cold let them wear the school uniform jumper. Honestly it just feels ridiculous at this point.

How ridiculous. Ds used to get nosebleeds if he was too hot and they had to wear jumpers even in 30 degree heat unless the teacher said otherwise. I wrote in and said ds was to remove his jumper when and if he wanted to or I would like an appt with the Head . Seemed to do the trick.

I am on a train at the moment with think socks, a scarf and a coat,it's not warm by any stretch and I run hot.

I hated these stupid rules in high school.
Sitting in a hot classroom sweating and feeling sick. And being told 'No do not remove your blazer or loosen your tie! Do you think you would get away with that in the world of work?
Yet the teacher was in a nice cotton shirt with no suit jacket or tie. And the female teacher were in cotton dresses. I doubt any work place wants ot workers sweating and uncomfortable.

Can you imagine doing lessons in those "temporary" huts in the 90s with no jumper? 🥶

We had a summer uniform of cotton dresses for girls and shorts for boys (junior school). But we were still allowed to wear school jumpers if chilly! We had sleeveless vests too. However it was a battle to get most to wear them, and I don’t recall any child ever wearing a coat in secondary.

I'm sure this will really help the mental answer physical health of students. Not.
It's as stupid as blazers on at all times, no shorts in secondary and only black coats (bloody dangerous after dark).

When will the powers that be realise that children all around the world manage to learn without petty uniform rules? My teen couldn't cope with uniform and it contributed to her missing 30% of secondary school.

Ridiculous rule. I'd buy my DC a white thermal jumper/top to go underneath the shirt. They should not have to though of course!

Why would anyone care about this??

Schools have completely lost the plot.

Not all UK schools, I was a teacher in Scotland and Scottish State schools are usually not as crazy about uniform rules as English ones seems to be.

The school's uniform policy is a blazer which is mandatory and a jumper which is optional.

The school says that in hot weather some kids wore their jumper, but refused to wear their blazer because the extra layer made them too hot. Staff would tell them to remove their jumper and put on the blazer. Kids argued and refused to comply. Time was wasted. Kids were punished. Bad feeling all round

So to mitigate against the few kids that broke the rule about wearing the mandory blazer, the school now says that in the summer term no one can wear the jumper. Therefore everyone will be cold enough to wear the blazer

Totally misses the point that teenagers are going to teenage. If you put arbitrary rules in place which they don't understand the point of, or agree with, teenagers are going to push back and rebel. Some more than others, some very much to their own detriment.

Nobody has ever convinced me that anyone will learn anything better if they're wearing a particular blazer during the school day. It's all just about moulding kids to comply with authority and has the unintended but obvious consequence of igniting division between kids and school over a complete non issue.

UK primary school: ‘we are a rights respecting school !’ Teaches children their rights. Teaches them to be independent, to respect others, to wear the appropriate clothing for the weather etc etc etc

UK secondary school : ‘you can’t even decide what items of uniform you wear. We are in charge of everything’

I'm so glad my children's schools are normal! Primary: joggers/ leggings/ whatever, red polo, blue jumper. Second hand school logo-ed jumpers and polos are collected every term and available for free from the village library.

Secondary - much the same, except they are a bit stricter with no joggers and jeans and no trainers.

The clothes are affordable, adaptable, comfortable and turns uniform into a non issue. It's not hard to get it right

So glad i no longer get those type of texts.
I remember getting a text that my daughters tie wasn't visible when they did a uniform check at the front door.
They always ended texts with 'please give a reason', so I phoned up to enquire about it and was told unzipping her coat on the way through the front door wasn't good enough; ties must be visible at all times and she should have unzipped it before entering.

Considering the outfits others were wearing i asked if it was also policy for arsecheeks to be shown at all times as none of those parents were texted.

I cannot fathom how over-worked and under-funded schools have the time to be caring about whether kids tie their jumpers round their waists.

If it’s not directly linked to educational outcomes or poor behaviour, they should let it go.

Bat shit. What on earth is wrong with wearing a jumper after Easter? Bat shit bat shit bat shit.

According to the article, the pupils had been wearing jumpers instead of the school blazer and parents had complained that the blazer wasn’t being worn.

It may be to stop kids tying their jumpers round their waists. I know of a school where they introduced a sleeveless jumper, allegedly for this reason. The kids hated the jumper and were cold in winter.

Surely it's an issue on very hot days?

Would you like to be forced to wear a blazer when it's 30 degrees?

What petty ridiculousness.

I cannot believe any education professional would think this important or reasonable. Banning the wearing of jumpers based on the calendar? Do people really go into teaching with a desire to police what time of year a child wears a jumper? Pathetic.

It literally is a new policy

So? No matter when it started, it's always been utterly ridiculous. And it still is. The fact it's not new is neither here nor there. The school are just lucky they haven't been taken to task on it before now.

The school should be focused on the kids' welfare, not their own image (or whatever bananas reason they think they have for doing this).

Good on the mums for calling the school out.

Or it's the first time the media have picked up the issue.

A stupid policy is a stupid policy.