sports "colours" at school - anyone else remember this?

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I went to a convent grammar school in the 80s. Certain girls from fourth year upwards (?) received, eg, "hockey colours" which were awarded in assembly and worn from then on - coloured ribbons tucked into the waistband about the same length as the skirt.
Sounds mad. Does this still happen? Does anyone else remember it? Does anyone's child at school now have "colours"?

I remember some other people talking about this at uni. My school didn't do this, anyone wearing such things would likely have been bullied in any case.

Our local state comp does it. Full and half. There’s a big wall with everyone’s photos on (we walk past it on the way to swimming lessons).

My dc state secondary does this but calls it stripes. Also award special ties for academic, sports, creative excellence.

State comprehensive in the 1990s here - got colours for netball and swimming. It was additional braid around your blazer, and a coloured flash on your school badge. Very traditional ex-grammar school in Scotland

Private secondary in the Commonwealth, 2000s - yes, it was everywhere. Colours and honours I think they were called, which were scrolls with the name of the activity that you'd sew onto your blazer under the logo pocket. Then in your final year you could buy a different colour jumper, and if you represented the province/country in something you could wear a different colour blazer - bright red, in our case, rather than grey. And there were various badges too, for house captains and library monitors etc.

It all sounds mad written down but I was a compliant little thing and left school with no space on my blazer .

Oh god, there was coloured braiding around blazers too! One plain red, one red and white striped. Can't remember why now. And the head b/g and deputy head b/g could have white blazers.

We have these at the school i work in...it's a metal badge...half colours or full colours !?

We have colours at the small indie prep I work at. They are little metal badges and are awarded for representing school in various sports. No academic awards though so the non sporty kids naturally get fewer badges

I remember them from school and university (for sports only - I definitely didn't get any! ).

Yes, we did.

Private school in the nineties/noughties.

My DCs are still at (state) primary, and they get given the little thin metal badges with the name of the sport on that they represented the school in, at the end of the year. It comes attached to a certificate with ribbons on it. It's very cute.
My bog standard comp didn't do I, but my uni did.

Dd's state secondary gives colours. They get a different tie with the school crest on rather than the usual stripey one and a certificate.

Yes, all schools DC have been to do this - either badges for sport or county-sport or multiple school sports etc, or ties for school team etc.
I deeply disagree and dislike this. Not anti-sport but there wasn't an equivalent 'good at chemistry' badge/tie so it just made those good at sport even more big-headed. It is a biological advantage of being tall or slim or sporty, nothing to put someone above another person.

I got my 1/2 colours at school. My high school age child isn’t sporty at all so no idea if it’s a thing at her school.

They did it at my school (along with academic colours and music colours)

DSs' school had them for sports. I think it was a special tie.

My comprehensive had them in the 80s too - sewn onto the blazer op let IIRC. I did not receive any!

Op let = pocket

Yep, had them at my bog standard comp in the 90s. Awarded at the incredibly dull 2 hour long annual sports assembly. Every sport from every year had a report read out of how their year had gone. It seemed to last for weeks.

We had them at my school (Independent, 1990s) and they were a big deal. All of the VIth form wore a sash. If you had no colours it was plain blue. If you had colours you had different cross-hatching on your sash which indicated how many colours you had.

It was uber-cool to be awarded colours before the VIth form as you got your sash early.

The sashes were all the same length, so, as a side-line, how long your sash was indicated how skinny you were. Not healthy!

Yes we had colours and half colours as braid on our blazers. Girls grammar school, 1970s

It’s not unusual is it? It’s like Blues

We had the same system as @reefedsail except our sashes were woven black and yellow which was weird because our uniform was navy blue

You were given your sash whem you got your first half colour. The colours themselves were sections of ribbon that you sewed onto the dangling ends of the sash!, starting at the skirt hemline. I got my colours for swimming (white?) and my half colours for gymnastics (purple).
I was really slim as a teenager and the fringed ends of the sash used to tickle my legs.

We had them - state school in the 90s.

Full colours if you represented the country
Half colours if you represented the county or district

I remember there was a big drama when a friend of mine represented the country at a sport that was not a school sport. Her dad insisted she got her full colours but the school said no because she got it without any support from the PE department. What a scandal. I am pretty sure her dad got his way in the end

We had these - private school late 90s-early 00s. In the lower teams it was a badge to sew on your sports skirt, if you got first team colours then you got a fancy blazer and special (v itchy) scarf. I got music colours but couldn't afford the blazer so my glory was unrecognised.

They had similar at uni (Cambridge) where you get "Blues" for representing the uni against Oxford. Guys would wear the blazers on nights out as a pulling tactic.

It was a little metal badge at my school I still have them somewhere.
Half colours was a little round pin with just the first letter so T for tennis R for rounders etc and full colours was a rectangle metal pin with the full word.