School Dress Code From August 2023

Thursday 30th March 2023

Between now and until the end of April we aim to gather views on our school dress code arrangements for session 23/24.  This follows recent consultation with Student Voice Year Groups and our Parent Council.  See our website news post of Monday 20th March.   Our aim is to confirm 23/24 dress code expectations on Friday 28th April.  Please note no changes will come into effect until August 2023.

The rationale we are adopting is that a school dress code is important for a range of reasons.  You’ll see this in our guidance.  We also recognise that school uniform can be expensive for families and therefore are seeking to widen the options available, particularly when there are significant financial pressures on many households.  At the same time we are seeking to balance what is a range of opinion on school uniform/dress codes and our guidance includes more and less ‘traditional’ options.

Our guidance in relation to PE recognises the challenge we are currently facing with a popular and successful part of the school attracting lots of students and challenges we have around too few changing rooms.  There is no immediate prospect of additional changing rooms and we are proposing reverting to our Covid-19 approach of expecting students to come dressed for PE on the days they have PE.  Of course we will retain an option for those who want to change and offer advice on what we’d expect on wet weather days.  You’ll see this means black/white clothing themes for PE.  This allows us to maintain our overall Dress Code Vision.  In summary our vision is to encourage students to dress in a combination of black/white with ideally at least one item having the LHS logo/badge.  This would be a tie, blazer or our new half zip top.

To view the initial draft guidance we consulted on click here.

To view the updated guidance, following our recent consultation, please click here   Showing both allows you to see the changes made during the consultation.

To give your view on this new updated guidance, through a short Google Form,  please click here to provide feedback. This feedback opportunity will close on Monday 24th April.

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