Sending home from school

Which is why students aren't routinely sent home to do that, and if it happened at this school it was an error that was rectified.

Presumably cos they may not have the money to get home again or get back.

I don't think wandering the streets with nowhere to go freezing their tits off is the best use of their time

The head is not called Mr Fox is he, Frami ?

How does a secondary aged child who is perfectly capable of getting themselves to and from school independently suddenly become endangered when an extra journey is added to the mix?

Funny we gripe that state schools are worse than independents, that there is no discipline etc etc. Then we moan when a head takes firm action to maintain standards that are high and in line with many independents.
The black rucksack thing - mine had to have designated PE bags, designated socks, designated swimming costumes. A standardised uniform is quite normal in the 'top' schools. I personally suspect no great cause and effect but it does teach children to conform to societal norms.
The return home thing - parents are aware this is the rule. They can see what their children are wearing so they need to take responsibility and get their children to school in correct uniform. No reason to blame anyone but parent and child.
High risk - for secondary school children? Really? They need to grow up and take responsibility at some time.

Niblegiraffe

If they don't have the correct uniform they won't go back will they, not to get sent home again.

What a load of nonsense.

Get on with teaching ffs. There must be very some actual issues to deal with. Bullying, behaviour, lesson planning etc

Kids who are sent home to change don't get the day off school, they are expected to come back, otherwise it's an unauthorised absence per DfE advice above.

So the outcome of a s hook behaving like this is, if you as a teenager want the day of school, errand the wrong uniform and get sent home by important school staff doing a job they have been instructed to do.

Day of school at schools insistence

Need time of for wedding or funeral and this is the simplest option

How petty of them, kids will always tweak uniforms they should be more concerned with attendance and productivity

I'm concerned because a few years ago a child from the school went missing later found dead after playing truant.

the most faux of faux concern.

How about the children kept in school who are killed in road accidents on their way home? How dangerous and uncaring of staff to keep them inn school for the day.

Its none of your business. Just send your children in in the correct uniform. If someone wants to send their child to a school three buses away, they will be travelling on three buses to get home, whenever they leave.

Yes maybe the school are already following the guideline "When making this decision schools need to consider the child’s age and vulnerability, the ease and time it will take, and the availability of the child’s parents."

It is these kids that I worry about

Why are you worrying at all? Have you any actual evidence that the school is turning away kids at the gate who then have to walk home 5 miles to change their socks without their parents knowing?

And if they are, (which I doubt) don't you think the parents would be on the case?

I don't think they'd do it in a primary school.

Sending any student home for uniform issues is ridiculous. I think school uniform in general is altogether unnecessary and agree with ivykaty44 upthread. But even if we accept that the school has a strict uniform policy, that doesn't justify this response.

Most schools make a great fuss over attendance and act as if missing a day for any reason is jeopardizing students' educational outcomes. But at the same time the lessons are so unimportant that having the wrong socks, shoes or rucksack is a good enough reason to send a student home?! A reminder would be more appropriate. Detention for repeat offenses.

I worked for a number of years as a member of support staff in a primary school. I'd have felt very, very bad about being required to enforce anything like this. There's no justification for it.

Sending kids home is fine, but parents should be informed.
DfE says:

'A head teacher, or a person authorised by the head teacher, may ask a pupil to go home briefly to remedy a breach of the school’s rules on appearance or uniform. When making this decision schools need to consider the child’s age and vulnerability, the ease and time it will take, and the availability of the child’s parents. This is not an exclusion but an authorised absence. However, if the pupil continues to breach uniform rules in such a way as to be sent home to avoid school, or takes longer than is strictly necessary to effect the change, the pupil’s absence may be counted as an unauthorised absence. In either case the pupil’s parents must be notified and the absence should be recorded. If a school is considering excluding a pupil in response to breaches of uniform policy then this must be in line with the legal requirements for exclusion.'

I totally get why this is a highlighted concern for you but if parents know what's happening, they need to ensure their kids are sent in with the correct uniform and wearing it - mine would be devastated if she was turned away at the school gates and knows we wouldn't be happy.

Mine has a key, knows how to get home and she has to telephone me if sent home unexpectedly (never happened). Even if she fancied a few days skiving, she knows we find out as we have to sign their termly report and taking it back in on parents evening - the report contains details of unauthorised absence.

One of the local schools does checking at the school gates and sending home. Ours does isolation until the correct item is brought in, although I think they have spares they will lend out if possible. Dd has never found it hard wearing the right thing each day though. If someone couldn't afford it I hope they'd be given spare stuff.

I think the policy in dd's school is more likely to be successful tbh because I know that I would be seriously pissed off to be called by school and have to hotfoot it down there with an item of uniform. Dd would know I was seriously pissed off which would be the only deterrent needed to ensure she didn't do it a second time.
I'm not sure that if parents aren't informed and the dc get sent home that there is any incentive for them to arrive in a full uniform in fact there is probably a disincentive if you perhaps have PE first lesson and it's freezing and wet or a maths test etc etc

Also the people doing the "inspections" are not teachers merely support staff

this line alone shows the total contempt you hold staff in, and will o doubt be passing on to your children.

What on earth do you think you mean by "merely"?

merely support staff

Sorry but this is very offensive to highly trained underpaid staff who put up with a lot of parental abuse and deal with very diffficult children day in day out - without them many students wouldn't be in school receiving the education they do.

As you were!