School uniforms

Does anyone here have kids at primary school?

My daughter is in the reception class so its her first year at the school.... which i went to when i was little.
My oldest son is in a different primary school but im looking to move him to the same school as my daughter as its a catholic school & his school isn't catholic.

Anyway this morning my daughter bought me in her grey school skirt & said 'Ms Headd said no skirt, we have to wear our summer dresses'. I said no its going to rain today & its going to be cold. So she went to school in her grey skirt, school t.shirt, jumper & tights.

Husband took her to school & Ms Headd (teaching assistant) told him that the girls aren't allowed to wear their skirts & tops to school anymore & HAVE to wear their summer dresses......... because its summer now

I said to my husband but its going to rain most of the week & its cold. He said all of the girls in the school were in their summer dresses some with socks & others with tights.

Is everyone elses school like this?
First off i don't see why the school should be able to say you can't wear your skirt & t.shirt & that they have to wear a flimsy summer dress.
Secondly i think a summer dress with dark tights looks silly anyway.

The boys don't have to wear shorts & can carry on wearing their trousers & t.shirts.


The school is driving me nuts.... they've changed the school skirts from royal blue to grey. Thats fine but they've said that the girls HAVE to wear a grey pinafore in the ONE style bought from the school office. They are expensive & i can buy 2 skirts from m&s for the price of one of their pinafores.
Im annoyed that they are saying that girls can't wear grey skirts & only pinafores & only bought from the school. They've changed their jumpers too which are bad quality & the prices for the old jumpers used to be £12.50 but now the new jumpers cost £15 or £16 each now. Thats really expensive as i'll have 3 kids in there come September & each needs more than one jumper.

Im not a happy bunny.

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Perhaps you should contact the school governors, as I remember summer dresses were a choice

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My husband thinking i'm just being a pain but its not that.

I respect & like children having a school uniform.
However like you've said i was under the impression that a summer dress was optional.

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For the last 11 years schools have been the the biggest pain in my world, uniform, homework, bullies, teachers who have less life experience than my little toe, money for this and that every week. So I do understand!!

However I must say that last week I attended my sons year 11 celebration evening, we have gone every year as my son has been given awards. I have to tell you that this his final celebration evening was awesome! The good kids about 250 out of 300 in the year, supported cheered clapped and dance in the audience. They put on a show all by themselves. The teaching staff and managers did the kids proud the comments and speaches were the most inspiring I have ever heard. It really was the most magical time. Kids and schools get such a bad press at times I wish I could capture what they had in that room bottle it and I would be a rich girl.......

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That's fantastic to hear jaqs, I agree that the entire news/media coverage of the UK is of the bad things in society, stuff like this just doesn't get reported, it's a shame.

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