Parents 'furious' with school plan to ban skirts for girls

PARENTS have reacted angrily towards a school’s plan to bring in a trousers-only policy for all pupils.

- BY EMMA GILL

Newhouse Academy in Heywood told families that from September, both 'boys and girls will be expected to wear plain black school trousers' as the school intends to 'move away from skirts being a part of the girls' uniform'.

The letter from head-teacher Alex Burnham was sent out to existing parents before the Easter break, but news soon spread to those who have children starting the school this September.

A small number of them have contacted the school to share their concerns about the change, which the school has now told us has been paused to allow for further consultation.

One mum, whose daughter is due to start in Year 7 this autumn, said that nothing about any uniform change was mentioned in the school's open evenings last year and had it been highlighted at the time, she 'would never have considered this school'.

She said parents of new starters and with children already at the school 'are in uproar' over the plan, which she is 'furious about'.