I used to dream of being put on gardening leave.
Parents criticise seasonal school jumper ban at Lutterworth school - BBC News Parents criticise seasonal school jumper ban at Lutterworth school - BBC News
What the actual fuck!!! Is it April fools day again? 
My secondary school had something similar, only the other way round as far as the seasons went. Our uniform included a heavy blazer which was to be worn at all times. The rule was enforced reasonably strictly around the school (not for informal footy games in your lunch break, obviously) but the headmaster was tough about it if you were off the school site - particularly if you were walking to and from school or out in the town during lunch break. He didnât want us âlooking untidyâ apparently. It was a small town and you might well come across a prefect or staff member, so there was some risk of being caught.
Anyway, during the hottest parts of the year the head might relax to what was called âshirtsleeve orderâ when you were allowed to take the blazer off and roll your sleeves up a couple of turns. I think the tie had to stay on though.
I was at school during the summer of '76. Shirtsleeve order came in irritatingly late as I recall.
haha he was clearly ex Army.
Shirt sleeve order generally started on 1st April and ended on 1st October but it was COâs discretion.
You normally had a month either side of it being fucking cold in shirt sleeves though 
Some would issue standing orders that sleeves are rolled down at 1800 which was a thing from India and mozzies apparently 
It happens in all walks of life IMO.
Someone with control issues, desperate to flex the tiny bit of power they (think they) have
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Six labour leaflets now, one green, one Tory.
Either theyâre extremely diligent or very scared.
Conversely the only posters Iâve seen in windows have all been Green.
Yes, it was the same as my school, also outside school if you were in uniform you had to wear your cap 
A young JB with slate board slung over the shoulder walking home with cap on
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I donât think roller skates had been invented at that time never mind skate boards
We had the same, including the name, although Iâm pretty sure the headmaster was not ex-military. It was a very old school though, originally founded in 1541, so there were a few bits of terminology floating around that would make no sense to most people (first year pupils were called Removes, which sort of makes sense, but for some reason second year pupils were called Shells, and no one had any fucking clue why).
The other difference was that the junior school had to wear shorts all year round, whereas the seniors were not allowed to wear shorts as uniform at all. The juniors were at least allowed to wear tracksuit bottoms to and from school / during breaks in cold weather.
Tracksuits bottoms? We dreamt of tracksuit bottoms 
Almost 
Itâs definitely a military origin, google seems to think first use was around 1850.
Remembering now that shirt sleeve order also meant the heating in the singles accommodation was switched off until October as well.
My school (also dating from 1560 iirc) also had a Shell year which was the 12-13 year olds. I donât think we were ever told why either and caps had to be worn travelling to & from.
School on Saturdays too, much to the amusement of my brothers & sisters.
My headmaster was ex-RAF, as was the (rather older) deputy head.
There seems to have been a good deal of school-founding going on in the middle of the 16th century. There are any number of KEVIs up and down the country (King Edward VI). Yours looks like it happened under Henry VIII. Mine was 1555, so Bloody Mary (and Philip), but that was just the granting of the charter which was roughly contemporary with the move to the present site (the school library, which used to be the entire school, dates from 1567). There was a school in the town long before that though. There are records of a (head)master being appointed in 1329 and the school clearly existed before then.
Our weird stuff included Charter Day (we all* went to a service in the parish church) and Beast Mart which was a civic declaration of a (long disappeared, except for the declaration), er, week-long livestock market. For some reason the mayor had to show up in full regalia and shout the declaration in our school yard. And we had to stand and listen. Rain or shine. Think Gormenghast. We got the afternoon off though, so worth it.
Short trousers were optional in the first year but most of us were very keen to get into long ones. We were big boys now (aged 11).
*Not the Catholics - heaven knows where they went. Purgatory probably.
How about the wheel ?
No but we had those tree trunk rollers like Fred Flintstone had on his car. Logtastic 
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