Professional Dress Code

Our Post-16 dress code is professional, practical and smart whilst allowing for a greater degree of personal choice appropriate to a Post-16 setting.

In agreeing the dress code, we have considered the fact that whilst different from lower school in many ways, Post-16 students are role models for younger students and therefore standards must be kept high.

All students must wear the IGS lanyard with P16 access card at all times.

• Smart skirt/dress/tailored trousers (grey/dark/subtle colour of choice).
• Skirt/dress length should be ‘closer to the knee than the hip’
• Smart blouse / professional top /collared shirt (plain or subtle pattern/subtle colour of choice).
• With a collared shirt, students must wear a burgundy/black IGS Post-16 tie or professional tie of choice
• Smart, plain jumper/cardigan (no large logos) or a tailored jacket (grey/dark/subtle colour of choice)
• Smart shoes appropriate for a busy, professional working environment
• Discrete ear piercings or nose piercing are allowed (see below for further details)

For clarification the following items are not allowed for either Year 12 or Year 13:

• Shorts
• Casual trousers
• Leather skirts or trousers
• Leggings or skin-tight stretchy trousers
• Tops with large or offensive logos
• Low cut / low open neck tops or blouses
• Hoodies (IGS hoodie can only be worn during sporting activity or outside)
• Strappy/vest tops
• Denim
• Casual shoes, trainers or flip flops
• Extreme hairstyles or colour
• No hats or coats to be worn in lessons.
• Nose or lip rings, visible ear bars or large hoops or gauges are not discrete. Rings in the ear must be small and not present a health and safety risk

Final decisions on the appropriateness of any attire will be at the discretion of the Post-16 Team / Senior Leadership Team.

FAILURE TO ADHERE TO DRESS CODE

Verbal warning and also recorded on ClassCharts notifying all stakeholders.

2nd occasion recorded on ClassCharts.

Persistent / repeated failure to follow the dress code will result in a school detentions generated by comments on ClassCharts and/or timetabled Supervised Study and a parental meeting.