Straw poll: are inset days always casual dress?

[YogiYoni]

Starting new job on Monday. Two days of inset. Can I wear pyjamas jeans or do I need to dress smartly?

Jeans wherever I've worked, but I've only taught in state comps. May be different elsewhere.

Always casual in my school.

The only times I've had to wear smart dress for inset is when there have been students in school for reasons such as coursework catch up. I'd assume that if there are no students on site then it's casual.

Casual for definite

Jeans with us too

Jeans. Always has been in any school I've worked in.

Casual all the way, even in the poshest of posh schools.

SMT went through a phase of dressing smartly whilst everyone else was in jeans, but even they have caved now. I was considering wearing my 'Nolite te bastardes carborundorum' t shirt, but thought it may be considered provocative

Primary. Always been casual.

State secondary - we have to dress smart!

Casual here - state secondary

Every school I've worked in (independent and state secondaries) has been jeans for Inset.

We dress casually but not super casually.

Jeans, nice top/jumper, reasonable non scruffy shoes (trainers fine, but nobody wears battered trainers).

Nobody has insisted on this rule. It just seems to be how it's fallen.

Jeans/casual. Catholic secondary school. The HT will be in jeans just like everyone else.

Go for black jeans if you are paranoid?! Then you don't look out of place either way.

State secondary here and no jeans / casual dress allowed. smart all the way even for inset it's really annoying

Primary. Definitely casual for the aforementioned dusty cupboard reason

Have worked in three private schools and it's always been casual for inset, but not flip flops as you're digging stuff out of cupboards etc. As a PP said I normally wear jeans, a nice top and trainers.

Thank you. That's reassuring.

You'd get a massive bollocking (usually in front of everyone by power tripping SMT) in my last school (large academy chain) if you went in jeans.

Every other school I know does casual on inset days.

What kind of school is it? If you're anxious maybe wear black trousers and a smartish top and have a jacket in the car? We had two inset days and all the new staff were more smartly dressed on the first and in jeans on the second!

Not always here. Start of term is sometime formal, although this year it was casual!

Ok. I'll go for middle ground and keep a blazer in my car

I'd never work in a school where people turned up in suits on an inset day. I think I'd find it creepy, almost Stepford Wives-y.