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Mine was a grey skirt, white blouse, navy blazer, dark tights (or white socks in summer), black shoes.

For PE and games we wore a white polo shirt and green gym knickers. Hockey boots outdoors, bare feet indoors. For dance you could wear your PE kit or a blue leotard and we worked in bare feet. For drama we just took off our blazers, shoes and socks.
Ross19 · 31-35, M
Black shoes, black socks, black trousers, white shirt, school tie and navy blue v neck sweater. No blazers.

PE indoors was white tee, white ir navy shorts and barefoot. PE outside we were allowed a school rugby shirt and boots or barefoot.

Dance for girls was in the indoor pe kit

Drama we just removed our shoes and socks
RebeccaG · 46-50, F
Green blazer, grey skirt with tights or socks depending on winter or spring terms. P e was was white tee and shorts indoors with bare feet, outdoor was white tee with green skirt and green sweatshirt in the winter.
RebeccaG · 46-50, F
@SunshineGirl I know, it’s teacher must wear trainers clean only!!!
SunshineGirl · 36-40, F
@RebeccaG If you must wear trainers they should not have been worn outside first. I've done badminton in bare feet before because I didn't have any indoor only trainers 🙂
GkB01 · 51-55, M
@SunshineGirl I used to like doing badminton in my bare feet in PE at school.
GkB01 · 51-55, M
Black blazer, white shirt, black trousers, black and blue tie, black socks, black shoes.

For PE, for the boys it was a black rugby style top, shorts and trainers outside, the same inside but plimsolls, not trainers or bare feet. Most including me, went barefoot in the gym.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
Black trousers (short or long in the First & Second Years), white shorts, school tie. Red blazer for 1st & 2nd Yrs, black thereafter.

For PE: white twill shorts (I still have them by a quirk of domestic history... i.e. forgotten for years in a drawer), white tee-short, white ankle socks and black plimsolls.

For Games in the Winter, particularly Football and cross-country, we wore dark-blue shorts, knee socks and sweatshirts. The shorts were in "house" colours. The "houses" for the boys were named after famous past generals and I think mine was Clive (of India).

Although the concept of a "house" was largely meaningless in a 1960s, large, mixed, non-boarding LEA grammar-school it did facilitate team sports like football despite this being not formally competitive to any great degree. The aim of school PE and Games was physical fitness, agility and stamina, not mere competition, but at least this was well before the pseudo-political anti-competition drives adopted by some 1980s-90s LEAs.

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The girls' class-room wear was similar but with navy-blue skirts; pleated in the first two Years, plain above, as I recall.

I forget what they wore for PE and games: white tops and navy-blue gym-knickers or hockey skirts, I think.

I don't know whom their houses were named after. 'Twere a long time ago!
SunshineGirl · 36-40, F
@ArishMell The houses in the boys' school were named after British admirals (the school was run mainly for the children of serving navy personnel). Ours for some reason were named after Greek goddesses. I was in Aphrodite house which did little to cool my ardour 😌

PE, like every other subject, was highly competitive. League tables for absolutely everything. Very Thatcherite.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@SunshineGirl My primary school used admirals' or captain's names but the word "team" rather than "house", perhaps as being simpler and more meaningful. I recall vaguely that mine was Nelson, the others being Blake, Hardy and Rodney.

The grammar-school did not make PE and Games competitive except at informal, single-event level but I think it did for the boys' annual cross-country race. I forget how; probably by some award at the Annual Speech day, in which I took about as much interest as in sports!

We didn't have any inter-school sports events, certainly not as far as I remember.

My parents had save our School Reports for no good reason other than a mixture of nostalgia and hoarding, and my sisters and I found them when the time came to clear their home. So I discovered that in striving to be constructive, my PE teacher wrote in one report, "Shows some interest in volleyball". That was true enough, but I wasn't any good at it! In another though he did observe my physical weakness - also true, I expect.
We had no school uniform, but for PE we had a one-piece blue suit with BLOOMER legs. I think they polled girls on suit styles and chose the ones everybody despised.
SunshineGirl · 36-40, F
@Mamapolo2016 Sounds delightful! 😂 Did you have footwear or did you go barefoot?
@SunshineGirl What we called sneakers.

Like these only not Puma

carolinehugz · 46-50, F
Mine involved the colour brown so I'm not sure I can even relive the horror and post any more details here 😲
SunshineGirl · 36-40, F
@carolinehugz Lol, I'm sure you're right 🙂 I was crushed when the purple leotards we wore in junior school were replaced by navy blue 😞
Hayleywg · 46-50, F
@SunshineGirl ours were bright red.... not great on very white winter legs!
SunshineGirl · 36-40, F
@Hayleywg 😂
Hayleywg · 46-50, F
Red blazer with grey skirt, obviously trousers for the boys. All red out door p e kit, shorts unless it was netball then a skirt. In the gym, tee shirt (white) with red shorts and bare feet.
SunshineGirl · 36-40, F
@Hayleywg Red PE kit so you can't escape while on cross country? 😂
ArtieKat · M
Navy blazer with school crest; black, maroon and silver striped tie; white or grey shirt; grey or maroon v-necked sweater; grey trousers; black shoes.
Lanyx · 41-45, M
Vertical striped blazer (Black, purple, white colour codes), Black, V-cut jersey for winter, White shirt (with probably school logo on the pocket), Gray trousers, black socks, black shoes.
Girls got to wear a navy-blue skirt (unpleated for juniors, pleated for seniors), white socks. Black stockings in winter. By 1996, they went soft, and allowed girls to wear "boy's" trousers.
(Most girls wore cycling shorts, as the boys would always want to steal a peak on every opportunity).
SunshineGirl · 36-40, F
@Lanyx naughty boys! Mine was a girls only school so we weren't too bothered about what we wore under our skirts.
tiggerandariel13 · 41-45, MVIP
The boys wore a white polo shirt and khaki pants girls had to wear a white polo shirt and a gray skirt they made the girls wear shorts under the skirt but the girls didn't wear the shorts under it
DearAmbellina2113 · 41-45, F
No uniforms in my school when I was a kid.
Jeffrey53 · 51-55, M
No uniforms when I went to school
Adec757 · 51-55, M
Navy blue jacket leather and trousers, white shirt, blue tie. Blue and yellow rugby shirt with blue shorts and yellow socks, indoor p.e. was white shorts and bare feet.
Hayleywg · 46-50, F
Good to see the boys in bare feet too! @Adec757
Mugin16 · 46-50, M
Never had to wear one. In my country school uniforms are not used. I remember seeing girls wearing their school uniforms - long skirts and sandals - during my visit to New Zealand.
Lanyx · 41-45, M
I was in a mixed-gender school. I am open for a chat over the messaging system here.
chrisCA · M
In Canada, only the Catholic, and the private schools required a uniform.
Mugin16 · 46-50, M
Nice uniform
SunshineGirl · 36-40, F
@Mugin16 it was ok apart from the gym knickers 😕

 
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