Uniform
The school uniform consists of a burgundy fitted blazer (compulsory) with the SHS logo embroidered on the left hand side, a grey skirt in a choice of 3 styles: a pleated skirt, a one-pleat skirt and a pencil skirt, or grey trousers, with a pink and white candy striped blouse. There is also an optional burgundy sweater for colder weather. Students may wear a scarf of any style providing it is plain burgundy, plain black or plain grey. Year 11 are currently allowed to choose to wear a black V Neck alternative.
Make-up is not allowed in Years 7, 8 and 9, apart from a small amount of concealer or foundation. However discrete make-up is allowed in Years 10 and 11. Extreme hair colours are not allowed. Boots may only be worn to and from school in the winter. Shoes must be plain and black in colour.
Before the academic year 2009/2010 the uniform consisted of a grey pencil skirt and black tights or black, white or grey socks or grey trousers, plain black shoes, a pink and white candy striped blouse and a maroon sweatshirt with the school logo on it. This was changed to the current uniform after a survey showed that the majority of parents, teachers and pupils would prefer a change of uniform.
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“The maples
Stood uniform in buckets, and the steam
Of sap and snow rolled off the sugarhouse.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Iconic clothing has been secularized.... A guardsman in a dress uniform is ostensibly an icon of aggression; his coat is red as the blood he hopes to shed. Seen on a coat-hanger, with no man inside it, the uniform loses all its blustering significance and, to the innocent eye seduced by decorative colour and tactile braid, it is as abstract in symbolic information as a parasol to an Eskimo. It becomes simply magnificent.”
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—Barbara Coloroso (20th century)