By Izaak Wright

1. What do Students, Students’ Parents and Teachers think about school uniform? By Izaak Wright

2. School uniform today! Summer Uniform Winter Uniform

3. Would no school uniform make your morning easier?

4. Explaining why no school uniform would make your morning easier/ not easier ?

5. Would no school uniform make your morning easier? Analysis • About 97% of the students’ parents and around 77% of the teachers think that having no school uniform would not make their morning easier. However about 71% of the students think that it would make their morning easier. • The main reason the students’ parents (43% of responses) like to have a school uniform is that they don’t have to think about what their children wear to school. • There was a variety of reasons given by the students but the most popular response (35%) was that they want more choice. • Few teachers answered the question correctly! Of those who did, the main reason for wearing a school uniform was to reduce bullying and peer pressure.

6. School uniform is a bad idea?

7. Do you think school uniform would be good for only school trips instead of all of the time?

8. There should be more mufti (non-uniform) days?

9. What other solutions do you have to reduce the amount of time we wear uniform?

10. How can we reduce the time we wear school uniform?Analysis • 30% gave no response • Of the 70% who did answer here are the most popular responses: • 70% of the teachers and 45% of the students’ parents like the uniform and therefore do not want to reduce the time it is worn. • Overwhelmingly 41% of the students wanted to wear uniform only on specific days.

11. If we keep school uniform how could we improve it?

12. How can we improve school uniform?Analysis • The main suggestion (31%) from students was no tie,while 15% of responses also put forward the idea of wearing a polo shirt all year, instead of just in Summer. In fact most students (81%) wanted a more casual uniform in some form. • The teachers gave a variety of responses, however, the two most popular were to have a better quality uniform (15%) and to re-enforce the existing uniform rules (also 15%). Teachers also suggested introducing a blazer, changing the colour of our uniform or abolishing the tie (each scoring 11.5%). • Students’ parents showed a preference for a cheaper uniform (18.5%), although they also agreed with the students, proposing that the polo shirt be worn all year (10%) and suggested too that the uniform be made from better fabrics (10%)

13. Bad Points about school uniform!

14. Bad Points about school uniform!

15. Bad Points about school uniform!Analysis I would like to highlight the main points here: • Students • Tie: Don’t like the fact that you get told off if you don’t have your tie done up precisely • Teachers • Trousers / Skirt: are not always the appropriate style • Tie: is not worn properly • Students’ Parents • P.E. Uniform: there is toomuch of the P.E. Uniform (to wash, take in, etc) • Shirt/Blouse: they have to be ironed (should be non-iron)

16. Good Points about school uniform!

17. Good Points about school uniform!

18. Good Points about school uniform!Analysis Again, I would like to highlight the main points: • Students • Polo shirt: like to wear it in Summer • Teachers • Polo shirt: it’s comfortable • Jumper: it’s smart • Students’ Parents • Tie: it’s smart • Other comments: the uniform in general is smart

19. Would school jumper/sweatshirt/Jacket worn over the top of Mufti (non-uniform), be a better idea than full uniform?

20. An improved uniform? Teachers’ perspective Teachers’ perspective I could not make an image of the parents’ perspective because their answers were too varied! Students’ perspective

21. Conclusions • Conclusions on the whole presentation • The students, on the whole, would prefer no uniform; however if they had to keep it they would want no tie and polo tops all year round. • Overall, students’ parents want to keep uniform, but they would like the uniform to cost less, for their children to wear polo tops all year round and for the uniform to have better fabrics. • The teachers, all in all, would also like to keep school uniform and would prefer a smarter approach to the uniform with a blazer, they would also like to have a better quality uniform and they want the existing rules for uniform to be re-enforced! • My recommendation • From the results, my biggest recommendation for my school uniform is no tie! • But my personal opinion and preference is no uniform! • What I learnt from the project • In my research I learnt new skills on PowerPoint and Excel. • I also learnt that researching and doing questionnaires are harder than I thought they were. • I learnt how to do questionnaires correctly – i.e. making sure about the ethics, not having leading questions, getting people’s permission for anything including them etc. • I found out that my strengths are creating the questions and analysing the data • Comments on the whole experience from data collection to analysis • I already knew I was nervous face to face but I realised just how nervous I was face to face surveying. • I am also very nervous to present, and therefore nervous right now! • However I feel that I have now gained confidence by facing my fears and doing the research!

22. Thank you for listening! Are there any questions? Bye!