Petition against introduction of the new Ashford School Sixth Form uniform

I would like to look professional and stylist at the same time. This uniform does not do that.

This petition has my full support.

wholeheatesly agree. This is causing unnecesary and additonal stress to pupils in advance of a new school year

it’s unfair and we have had no choice in it so we are now completely not getting what we thought would happen when we moved to 6th form

Being away towards the end of the summer holiday would mean we would only be able to view and purchase school uniform 2 days before new term starts which is unsatisfactory and causing stress as there may be not enough time to get correct fitting and then to buy appropriate shirts to go with the suit. I can’t understand why sixth form pupils can not wear their own suits and if really needed a school tie could be worn. Leaving it so late is totally unacceptable. (Parent of Thomas Fisher)

They need to pull it together

My family and I think it is ridiculous to be having to buy an entire new set of uniform, of which we know next to nothing about. It is a waste of money and hugely unfair on our Year group to have this implemented now after such a lack of organisation.

because it is

As well as the last minute pressures, the photos shared suggest it’s not a very good shape or quality. The year group could look really quite awful! We are running blind, please can we just delay.

The last time I saw a 3 button suit was in the early noughties.

I want to be free and express my own style as I enter this new course. I would like to be comfortable and confident in my own clothes during my remaining 2 years of education, like how the hundreds of students have done in the past.

The uniform is a solution for a problem that our year doesn't have. It's unnecessary for our year to have to inherit this. And the school just wants money, not cool

Could at least make it less ugly

The availability of the uniform is too rushed and too close to the start of the Autumn term 2023. The intoduction of the uniform should be abandoned until September 2024 when parents can purchase the uniform in an organised manner rather than a scramble

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Poor!!

The process is too rushed. the uniform looks poor quality. I would rather this is postponed.

The uniform is quite frankly not worth what they are selling it for, nor does it allow any form of "individuality" it is quite honestly a hosted project that looks like no one wanted to work for nor put work into, it is plain and shocking at how awful it actually is after being reassured it would be good and put in place fully whereas it is neither. - all comments made by James Robinson