SCHOOL UNIFORM POLICY
Last reviewed : | September 2024 | Next Review : | September 2025 |
Committee Responsible : | Strategic & Pupils | Approved on : | September 2024 |
Approved by : | Trustees & Governing Body |
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Aims
This policy aims to:
Our school’s legal duties under the Equality Act 2010
The Equality Act 2010 prohibits discrimination against an individual based on the protected characteristics, which include, sex, race, religion or belief and gender reassignment.
To avoid discrimination, our school will:
Limiting the cost of Uniform
Our school has a duty to make sure that the uniform we require is affordable, in line with statutory guidance from the Department for Education on the cost of uniform.
We understand that items with distinctive characteristics (such as branded items, or items that have to have a school logo or a unique fabric/colour/design) cannot be purchased from a wide range of retailers and that requiring many such items limits parents’ ability to ‘shop around’ for a low price.
We will make sure our uniform:
We will do this by:
Expectations for school uniform
Our school uniform:
Also Recommended:
We will accept royal blue generic items for all the uniform items except the Barnby Road Sweatshirt/Cardigan and the PE T-Shirt.
Where to Purchase it:
Parents and Carers can purchase the school uniform from:
Only plain earring studs, one per-ear, are acceptable for pierced ears. Studs must be taken out for PE. Please do not send children with earrings on PE / swimming days, or, ensure children can remove their earrings themselves.
We do not permit the following:
Our policy states that children must remove earrings before taking part in PE – this includes swimming. Please consider this before getting children’s ears pierced.
Children should not wear nail polish / artificial nails of any colour to school. A member of staff will contact parents / carers on the first day of a pupil wearing nail polish and ask for it to be removed by the next school day. The same process will apply for temporary tattoos.
Children with long hair must have it tied back as it helps prevent head lice. Hair bands / bobbles etc. should be simple and that serve the purpose.
We do not permit the following:
Expectations for our school community
Pupils are expected to wear the correct uniform at all times (other than specified non uniform days) while:
Pupils are also expected to contact Mr Chamberlain, the Head Teacher if they want to request an amendment to the uniform policy in relation to their protected characteristics.
Parents and carers are expected to make sure their child has the correct uniform and PE kit and that every item is:
Parents and carers are also expected to contact Mr Chamberlain, the Head Teacher if they want to request an amendment to the uniform policy in relation to:
Parents and carers are expected to lodge any complaints or objections relating to the school uniform in a timely and reasonable manner.
Disputes about the cost of the school uniform will be:
The school will work closely with parents and carers to arrive at a mutually acceptable outcome.
Staff will closely monitor pupils to make sure they are in correct uniform. They will give any pupils and their families breaching the uniform policy the opportunity to comply, but will follow up with the Head Teacher if the situation doesn’t improve.
Ongoing breaches of our uniform policy will be dealt with by Mr Chamberlain, the Head Teacher
In cases where it is suspected that financial hardship has resulted in a pupil not complying with this uniform policy, staff will take a mindful and considerate approach to resolving the situation.
The governing body will review this policy and make that it:
The board will also make sure that the schools uniform supplier arrangements give the highest priority to cost and value for money, for example by avoiding single supplier contracts and be re-tendering contracts at least every 5 years.
Monitoring Arrangements
This policy will be reviewed every year by the Strategic and Pupil committee. At every review it will be approved by the full governing body.
Links to other policies
This policy is linked to our: