School uniform rules

Spendless

Son's school says you can buy the item from them or in the school colours from the high street, but the school colours are such, that you can't find a generic one! Am always envious when people start talking about sewing a badge on instead, both my kids schools have the name embroidered into the jumpers.

Frith

I've just been looking at my son's blazer after reading this thread, and though the badge is sewn into it, it is on the pocket. So I reckon I would be able to take the whole pocket off and sew it on a new blazer, when he has grown a bit!

embob74

I did once buy a cheap blazer in the BHS sale for £3 and my mum picked the badge off older DD's old blazer and sewed it onto the new one. Bargain!!
All was going fine until DD kept boasting about her £3 blazer which would have cost £45 normally. Her friends were impressed but the teacher tried saying it was not acceptable as it didn't have the same amount of pockets!! Needless to say we didn't buy the proper blazer.

Sensemaya

My blazers are a slightly different hue to the official ones. I cut the badge off in a square then added another layer underneath, which is actually a old Chanel velvet make up pouch to give more substance, sewn it on the back and then cut round the shape of the badge.

My son said teachers and his friends did have a good look at first but now no one mentions it.

Why the school just can't sell badges I don't know given they sell ties. Oh yes I do - to keep the monopoly shops in business.

He wears four Asda short sleeved white shirts (£6 for pack of two) - 2 years going strong so £12 is not bad value-but I'm going to replace these soon as they are getting grubby - and men's black trousers which are £12 each. He goes through about 3 pairs a year.

He's a big boy. Age 13 next month. 40" chest / 32 or 34 waist / size 9 shoes and about 5ft 10" at the moment.

Don't get me going on about shoes!

marisco_2

My sons aren't at High school yet, I do fear that the costs of kitting them out in the uniforms are going to be steep, once they get to that stage. Their current junior school tries to get all the 'new' parents to buy the items of clothing with their logo on it. Some are gullible enough to buy the £7 a shot polo shirts , the rest of us buy the plain ones from Asda at 3 for £2.50. No-one says a word or bats an eyelid. The only clothing items I buy from the school are their jumpers and sport t-shirts. Everything else is sourced from much cheaper retailers.

The school where I work adopts a far more common sense approach to all this. Badges with the school logo are sold seperately for the parents to sew on to jumpers/cardigans of their choice. So long as children are wearing the right colours and not coming in with skirts that look like belts or low slung trousers that give them builders bums then no-one says a word. We aim to set a good standard and for the school to be seen in a positive light by the local community but not to the extent where is cripples parents to dress their children appropriately.

peachyprice

DD's school is a bit of a nightmare, the blazer isn't too bad as I can buy just a badge and sew it onto a cheap blazer, jumper I can get from the high street, I can only get the skirt from the outfitters at the moment, I have seen it on the high street in previous years but there aren't any around at the moment. The blouses are a nightmare, I think this must be the only school in the country that has them so I am restricted to the outfitters at £14 each :eek:

As for the PE kit, it changed last year when DD started, everything now has the school logo on it and everything has to be embroidered with her name so you can't even hand it down or buy from the school second hand shop. I think the PE kit cost more than the actual uniform

System

I had to buy the compulsory plain white PE poloshirt with the school badge embroidered on it as plain white is not allowed, the shorts and the special socks. I bought big and hopefully these will last till he leaves school. Utter rip off. The rugby shirt is now third hand after a friend gave it to me years ago. Got my eldest though and now it fits my youngest.

Your pretty fortunate, at the school my kids went to they changed the design every 3 or 4 years so there wasnt really much point in hand me downs.... not unless you wanted your child to stick out like a sore thumb. Then they bought out the idea of not only changing designs, each child had to have a polo shirt for their 'house'. Rediculous to say the least!

zaxdog

My school uniform was black and white but with a different tie for each year. We had an official school outfitters but my mother totally refused to pay the prices as I grew like a weed and it was a complete waste of money. I was smartly dressed in school colours but not by "official" suppliers and wore Doc shoes instead of the flimsy ones they preferred. Mum was called into the school and gave them a complete spiel re the legal policy surrounding school uniforms in Scotland and no more was said. :j

pulliptears

ladybez wrote: »

Are the trousers badged in any way? or a very particular colour? When mine started ad high school last year, the uniform list did say the trousers should be bought from the school outfitters. I and many other mums, bought them in Tesco, nothing has been said!

My friend did this with her DD, only what she and the other mums didn't realise was just inside the waistband of the trousers was stitched 'TMHS', the initials of school.
One morning the school did a uniform check and her DD along with others was sent into isolation for wearing non uniform trousers. Of course she kicked up a fuss, but in the end had little choice other than to purchase the trousers she should have purchased in the first place.

Alpha58

Shushannah wrote: »

girls have come in with very low waisted trousers and the current fad is for cheap thin leggings that you can see their knickers through.

At my daughter's school pretty much all the girls roll over the waistbands of their skirts to make them shorter - pretty common in all schools methinks. Didn't happen when I was a lad but that was in the 70s when long skirts were fashionable!