Uniform Shop
UNIFORM SHOP HOURS
(during school term only)
MONDAY: 8am - 10am
and 10am -1pm by appointment
TUESDAY: 2pm - 4.00pm
and 11am - 2pm by appointment
WEDNESDAY: 8am - 10am
and 10am - 1pm by appointment
THURSDAY: 3pm - 5.30pm
and 12.30 3pm by appointment
FRIDAY: CLOSED
Uniform Shop Hours for January 2010
Monday 4 th January to Friday 8th January 9.00 am - 1.00 pm
Monday 25 th January to Friday 29 th January 9.00 am - 1.00 pm
Please telephone the College on 9524 2424 or the Uniform Shop direct on 9523 3119 if you require any further information.
The Uniform Shop is located at the College and supplies all the items of uniform except the shoes. The Uniform Shop carries a quantity of second hand uniforms for purchase also.
The College employs Kim Jarrold and Julie Robinson to run the shop and to answer parent questions.
The Uniform Shop hours change according to demand and are advertised in the College Newsletter.
The following section from the College's Uniform Policy describes why Tranby requires her students to wear a uniform.
Why are Tranby students required to wear school uniform?
Effective learning should be the focus of all that students do at school. A uniform promotes this focus because it helps to prevent the distractions of fashion from entering life at school.
Uniforms also help to create the safe environment that is needed for learning to flourish. It is not uncommon for adolescent groups to identify themselves through their clothes. A uniform helps to protect schools from the overt influences of such groups.
Similarly a uniform helps a school to be accessible and inclusive. If students are wearing a uniform they are not reflecting the current fads or the amount of money that a family has available to spend on clothes. It makes it easier for all students to be accepted as part of the school community.
Uniforms clearly promote the identity of the College. The colours were selected to reflect the early settlers who came on the Tranby and their farming background. Members of the public often become aware of the school by seeing students in uniform, and students signify their membership of the school through the uniform. Furthermore the uniform can help students to develop a sense of belonging to the school and to have pride in it.
However, the uniform can be as much about individual identity as it is about corporate identity. We believe that individuals are important and that we should listen to what they are saying and pay attention to what they are doing. A uniform helps us to do this because it helps to prevent us from making superficial judgements about a student on the basis of what they are wearing.
Of course it is still true that it is difficult not to make judgements about students on the basis of how they wear the uniform. Students need to learn that if they wish to be taken seriously, they need to take themselves seriously, and that part of the way in which they indicate this is in how they wear the uniform.
