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summer uniform

59 replies

sassysally · 25/04/2014 12:03

what does your state school have?
We have girls- school summer dress with white socks or flesh coloured tights + blazer (a bit weird, if it is hot enough for a summer dress why would you wear a blazer?)
Boys - no summer option- long trousers shirt,tie,blazer

OP posts:

Sparklingbrook · 25/04/2014 12:09

I only have boys. But I think they are allowed to take their blazers off, and wear short sleeve shirts.

crazymum53 · 25/04/2014 12:16

At dds comprehensive school in Summer they don't have to wear a blazer or tie. Girls (and boys) can wear short-sleeved shirts, but everything else is the same

WheresRyder · 25/04/2014 12:27

the dc are no longer at state school. Although ds2 does attend state grammar, the only provision for summer is that short sleeves can be worn under the blazer.

At the old primary school, boys could wear shorts and polo shirts in the summer term and girls could wear gingham dresses with ankle socks.

Dd's current school, they have green striped dresses for summer, in the senior part of the school they can wear green striped short sleeved blouses.

WheresRyder · 25/04/2014 12:29

forgot to put the senior school for ds1, the uniform there was awful, acrylic jumper all year round and no tie, in the summer they could wear a pullover (sleeveless jumper) with a short sleeve shirt/blouse but of course no on wears them so they all sweat it out in long sleeved jumper and shirt. Can't be very nice for the pupils or staff, sweaty smelly teenagers in manmade fibres.

ChippyMinton · 25/04/2014 12:29

At DS's school they await the Head's permission to remove blazers (and possibly ties?). DS did ask for short sleeved shirts but I need to check if they are allowed.

17leftfeet · 25/04/2014 12:31

Ours don't have a summer uniform, ties are compulsory for everyone including girls and they have to ask permission to take their nasty jumpers off

Floggingmolly · 25/04/2014 12:33

Does your state secondary really have a dress for summer uniform? I've never seen this past primary school. Ours are told when they can leave their blazers off (summer term only).

LynetteScavo · 25/04/2014 12:37

I've just bought some short sleeved shirts for DS at his request. They are allowed to take blazers of in the classroom, but not ties. I think I might bring this up with the school. I don't want DS sitting in exams wearing a tie if he's uncomfortable.

Other than that, there is no summer uniform for girls or boys at high school, at primary girls have gingham dresses. I think I might struggle to get my 8yo to wear one this summer, as she doesn't do dresses.

Permission to take jumpers off? DS sees no need to wear a jumper, unless it's -4'C.

Nocomet · 25/04/2014 12:42

Ours swap (boys and girls) to polo shirts (from formal shirts and ties). Everything else stays the same, except, I think they don't have to have a jumper in school/ask to take it off.

Never understood having to ask to take your jumper off. Primary DCs are allowed to decide if they are too hot, WTF aren't secondary pupils.

It's a rule that would have lasted 20sec. at my old school, we'd have give our teacher our best "your joking? look" and carried on.

meditrina · 25/04/2014 12:50

DS's school - same uniform year round. Permission to remove blazers all day given at morning assembly (I think) if very hot, or by individual teachers in specific lessons.

Primary has optional shorts (year round) for both sexes, and optional summer dresses.

Doilooklikeatourist · 25/04/2014 12:54

Uniform stays the same .
Permission needed to take jumper off here too .
I think it's so they don't leave the jumpers behind and lose them

BackforGood · 25/04/2014 13:06

Uniform stays the same for both ds and dd
Once in a lesson, at ds's school then it was up to the teacher to 'allow' them to remove their blazers, but they still had to have them at school.
dds' school doesn't have blazers and the uniform doesn't change (you would just not wear your jumper if it were hot)

ThreeLannistersOneTargaryen · 25/04/2014 14:27

If we have what passes for a heatwave in the South of England, the school gives the boys permission to go without the blazer and tie.

My boys wear short sleeved shirts all year round as they find the long sleeved ones restrictive under a blazer.

RufusTheReindeer · 25/04/2014 14:33

Uniform stays the same

They all wear blazers but If it's very, very hot they are sometimes given permission to take them off

pointythings · 25/04/2014 15:54

Uniform stays the same - long or short sleeves are choice of the individual child and not dependent on the season, DD1 has been in short sleeves for about 6 weeks now.

School is sensible about allowing blazers to be removed, as soon as the temperature goes up, blanket permission is given, but the blazers do need to be brought into school. It works well.

I'd still prefer no uniform at all.

Lancelottie · 25/04/2014 16:03

Goodness. I must ask DD and DS whether they have to ask to remove their jumpers.

I doubt it, given DS rarely remembers to take one. No blazers either (cheerily scruffy bunch that they are).

My one gripe with summer uniform rules was that they aren't allowed hats outside -- but when I raised it with them (because DD's optician had said she ought to wear one), the head of year just said 'Of course, that's fine.'

MrsCakesPremonition · 25/04/2014 16:07

State primary.
Girls can wear gingham dresses in lilac or yellow. Or shorts. Or their usual uniform.
Boys can wear shorts or their usual uniform.
As far as I'm aware they can wear whatever (from the uniform list) they want at anytime of the year - the only concern is that what they are wearing is weather appropriate.

pigsinmud · 25/04/2014 16:20

Permission to take a jumper off? How ridiculous. Here my boys can wear a school polo t-shirt in the summer term. Blazers are needed for assembly. It's the same for the girls too.

MrsCakesPremonition · 25/04/2014 16:26

State secondary.
Blazers must be taken to school, optional to wear. Jumpers and cardigans are optional. No summer dress option.

RufusTheReindeer · 25/04/2014 16:30

schilke not only do they need permission to take their blazers off in school

They are unable to take their blazers off unless they are in their home (or car)

pigsinmud · 25/04/2014 17:06

Crikey? I bet the teachers are in shirt sleeves. I don't understand the sense in not being able to take a jumper or blazer off? Some of the classrooms when I was at school were absolutely boiling in the summer. I think I'd have passed out if I'd had to sit there in my jumper (100% acrylic) and blazer!

Marmitelover55 · 25/04/2014 17:35

DD's girls comp - they can wear short navy socks instead of long ones and they don't have to wear their jumper but need to wear blazer unless permission given to remove it.

Lancelottie · 25/04/2014 17:46

Uniform lunacy does seem to attach itself to blazers in particular. Our school was canvassing for opinions on whether to introduce a blazer; DS was quite keen to have one as an option (lots of pockets! Somewhere to hide the illicit mobile!), but not if it led to petty rules about wearing them.

This school doesn't seem to have much in the way of disciplinary problems, so I hope they won't feel like buying into the line that Blazers Improve Standards.

RufusTheReindeer · 25/04/2014 19:41

I don't think that blazers improve standards

But they can look very smart (and I love the way they wash...my life is so sad!)

Ohwhatfuckeryisthis · 25/04/2014 19:44

State secondary. Jumpers and blazers off with heads' permission, ties ditto. Girls wear opaque black tights all chuffing year.

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