Uniform
School Uniform September 2022/23
Here at Higham Primary School, we expect all children to wear school uniform. It provides an appropriate and relatively inexpensive outfit, encourages a sense of belonging to our school and a sense of identity within our community. By accepting a place at our school, you agree to send your child in each day wearing appropriate uniform. School sweatshirts, school t-shirts and polo shirts are all available from School Time, Chatham. Otherwise, items can be easily obtained from high street shops.
House Captain t-shirts and jumpers (for year 6 only) must only be purchased from School Time to ensure colour continuity.
Please mark all items of clothing with your child’s name.
Our uniform can be purchased from:
School Time, 23 Railway Street, Chatham, Kent
Please click 'here' to go to their website.
Please label all clothing with your child’s name
Girls Uniform
Grey skirt / pinafore dress
Grey / black trousers
School sweatshirt (green)
School polo shirt (white or green)
White shirt
Dark green jumper / cardigan
Summer dress - white / green check
Black shoes (flat heels, not trainers)
Boys Uniform:
Grey trousers / shorts
School sweatshirt (green)
School polo shirt (white or green)
White shirt
Dark green jumper
Black shoes (not trainers)
PE:
Black shorts/black jogging bottoms (no logo’s), colour PE t-shirt and coloured fleece (in house colour of purple, red, green or blue or a plain black hoody and plimsolls (Year R & Year 1), plimsolls or trainers (Year 2 to Year 6) for outdoor PE. Gymnastics is carried out in bare feet (unless there is a medical reason & office must be made aware of this). Children will need to wear their PE uniform into school on their class PE day, which can be checked via the school office.
Art:
A shirt or art apron to cover their clothes. (An adult shirt fastened down the back, with the sleeves cut and elasticated, is ideal)
Jewellery:
Children are not permitted to wear jewellery in school apart from the wearing of small stud earrings. This includes jewellery of religious significance. Studs need to be of a simple nature and small in size. Earrings must be removed on PE days, prior to arriving to school. Staff will not be able to safely store, remove or put earrings back in for any pupil even at particular request from parents. If a child comes into school on PE days wearing earrings and is unable to remove them, they will not be able to do any sport or PE activities. If your child removes their earrings for PE, we cannot be held responsible for their safe storage or if lost.
Earring tape is not permitted and all earrings must be removed for PE. If your child is unable to take part in PE on more than one occasion due to not being able to remove their earrings, we will request that your child no longer wears earrings at school.
Pupils are allowed to wear a watch but only if for the purpose of telling them the time or learning to tell the time. Apple watches or any other smart watch or tracking device are not permitted to be worn in school. Watches must be removed when taking part in PE and are brought in at the pupil’s own risk and the pupil is wholly responsible for the care of their watch.
No responsibility is accepted for the loss or damage to personal property of pupils and staff will not take responsibility for ‘looking after’ items.
Make-up:
Children are not permitted wear make up or nail polish in school. Clear lip balm may be brought in to school in cases where a child has chapped lips but this must remain in your child’s bag and not be shared with other children.
Children are also not permitted to come to school with dyed hair, extreme hairstyles or excessively large hair accessories. Any hair accessories should be off normal size and should only be in school colours (grey, green, white or black).