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Workwear for schools, colleges and education settings

Staff who are identifiable to pupils, parents and visitors, with different roles clearly distinguished.

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In a school the uniform is a safeguarding tool as much as a branding one. Anyone on site should be able to tell a member of staff from a visitor at a glance, and pupils should be able to identify who to approach. That argues for clear, consistent staff clothing across the roles that are not already in their own professional dress.

The roles that usually need it are the ones that move around the site: site and premises teams, catering, cleaning, learning support, sports staff and office or reception. Teaching staff are normally in their own clothes, so the scheme has to work alongside that rather than pretending otherwise.

Catering is the part with a hard requirement attached. Kitchen clothing in a school is washed hot and inspected, so it wants to be specified like a commercial kitchen's rather than like general staff kit.

What this trade needs

  • Polo shirts

    The general staff layer, colour-coded by department so roles are distinguishable.

  • Fleece or softshell

    Site teams and anyone crossing a playground in winter.

  • Catering whites and aprons

    Kitchen staff, specified for hot washing and inspection.

  • Tabards

    Cleaning and lunchtime supervision, worn over normal clothing.

  • Hi-vis vests

    Site teams, car-park duty and trips.

  • Sports kit

    PE and sports coaching staff, branded consistently with everything else.

The standards that apply

These are garment standards, not site rules. A standard belongs to the individual item and its certificate — so when a garment is specified for you, the certificate is what proves it, not a line on a web page.

EN ISO 20471
High-visibility clothing, for car-park duty, site teams and off-site trips.

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  • Which departments are in uniform and which are not — the scheme has to work around teaching staff.
  • Colour-coding by department, so a pupil or visitor can tell roles apart.
  • Whether the school crest or a plain name is embroidered, and in how many colours.
  • Whether catering is ordered to a commercial-kitchen specification, which it usually should be.

Send us those answers and we will price it

You do not need all of them. Trade, head count and where the logo goes is enough to get a useful quote back.

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