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Overview
Chadleigh Walker was sent home from school because of his shaved head An eight-year-old boy has been suspended from school for turning up to lessons with a shaved head.
His school, Ysgol Llewyelyn at Rhyl in Wales, told him he had broken school rules and sent him home.
Students look at the issues behind uniform rules and design a uniform for their teachers. They decide what it should look like and how it would be enforced.
Learning aims
QUIZ: DRESS CODES
Kilt For quiz, select this link Enter Dress code quiz
Students test their knowledge of dress with this quiz.
Answers:
1b, 2c, 3b, 4a, 5b, 6a, 7a, 8a, 9c
Warm up
BOY SENT HOME FOR SHAVED HAIRCUT
Chadleigh Walker was sent home from school because of his shaved head For the story, select this link
Story: Boy sent home for shaved hair cut
Read out this story to the class.
Ask students:
Design a uniform for teachers
Ask students to imagine that a new headmaster has taken over the school. From now on all teachers have to wear a uniform, and conform to rules governing their hair and make up.
Working in small groups, students design their teachers' new look. They should make notes and sketches to illustrate their points.
Aspects to bear in mind:
Ask the class to imagine how the teachers might feel about their new uniforms.
Teachers protest
Now tell the class that the teachers have gone on strike. The uniform has not gone down well. The teachers have all walked out. They won't come back until a new uniform has been offered.
The students have to start again. This time they have to plan how they will involve the teachers in the design process. How will the uniform differ if the people who wear it are consulted?
Students devise a new uniform for the school. They decide who will be consulted about the design and who will have the final say on how it looks.
The design must fit the following criteria:
Revise the design
Return to the original teacher uniform designs.
Students think of five things that the teachers are most likely to object to.
SKIRTS IN SCHOOL COMMENTS
School uniform select this link for comments: Should skirts be banned from school?
For each of these points they must try to revise their design to overcome it.
Evaluate comments
Distribute this worksheet of comments, submitted by young people logging onto the Newsround website.
Students put a tick next to the comments they agree with, a cross next to the ones they disagree with and a question mark next to the ones they are not sure about.
They summarise the arguments and THEIR thoughts by completing these sentences:
Students can also add their comments online.
Plenary
Ask students:
UNIFORM GUIDE
Girls in skirts select this link for our guide to school uniform
Schools are entitled to insist that pupils wear a particular uniform. The uniform must be reasonable and can not discriminate on the grounds of sex or race.
If a student is continually sent home for having the wrong uniform their guardian or parents can be prosecuted.
Pupils in Fife have been told any pupil opting to wear a shell suit is likely to be banned from taking part in science class experiments and given written work instead.
Pupils at a Warwickshire school protested against plans for a uniform that they said would destroy the relaxed atmosphere at their school. Dozens of teenagers at Trinity Catholic Technology College in Royal Leamington Spa missed their first lesson in protest.
A ballot of pupils at the Wester Hailes Education Centre produced a 2-1 vote in favour of adopting a dress code at the school for the first time in its 23-year history.
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