Week one of the hols musings

 

Someone may be looking a bit stern faced filling out the punishment book but perhaps it's more about their uniform this time than just attitude and as ever this always talk before school closes for the six week summer holidays around that.

Some has been about affordability, Academies in particular often went for blazers with piping, embroidered badges , branded sports kit often only available from *the* official school supplier which to be fair are often of good quality but quite an outlay especially if you have two or more children in such schools.

So they're trying to de brand things which may ironically make the difference those that can afford the est and the others stick out more.

Perhaps what is needed is a uniform allowance?

The other is for some of us is getting uniform stuff for the kind replicated school we go for which isn't too difficult for generic uniform like plain blazers, skirts things like traditional boater hats for girls and schoolboy caps can be harder and today looking under a school that might feature such items is likely to meet a request for details of the child, class etc as school specific items are often behind a "firewall" so unless you can find used ones it might prove difficult.

Perhaps some of us never got over formally leaving school and would sooner be at one for us?