Dress Code Policy Communication

DRESS CODE POLICY COMMUNICATION Date: Dear , I am writing to remind you of our school dress code policy, which is effective from . ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ UNIFORM REQUIREMENTS The {{school_name}} uniform consists of: • Blazer: [Colour] with school crest • Shirt: White polo shirt or button-down • Trousers/Skirt: [Colour] tailored trousers or knee-length skirt • Shoes: Black leather shoes (no trainers, sandals, or canvas shoes) • Socks/Tights: Black or white • Optional: School tie, school jumper ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ACCEPTABLE VARIATIONS We recognise the following variations: • Religious headwear: [Policy detail] • Medical footwear: With written request • PE Kit: School-branded PE kit for sport only • Extreme weather: Coats may be worn indoors during cold weather Any variation requests should be submitted in writing to the school office. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ NON-COMPLIANCE PROCESS If a student is not wearing correct uniform: 1. Teacher will note the issue and inform the student 2. Student will be directed to the school office 3. Parents will be contacted if correction is not possible 4. A uniform reminder letter will be sent home 5. Repeated non-compliance may result in a parent meeting We prefer to work with families to resolve uniform issues rather than use punitive measures. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SUPPORT AVAILABLE We understand that uniform costs can be a burden. Support is available: • Second-hand uniform shop: Open [Days/Times] • Uniform grant: Available for families receiving free school meals • Swap shop: Bring outgrown items, take what you need • School office can advise on approved suppliers Please contact us if you need support — no child will be excluded for uniform issues. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Thank you for your cooperation in maintaining our school standards. Yours sincerely, Principal