Network Managers & ICT Techs in Secondary Schools & Academies: Dress Code?

[Weller1968]

Hi All

 

Just a quick question regarding what you are required to wear to work on a normal working day. Is Jeans/T Shirts, smart casual or fully suited and booted?!

 

Regards

 

Matt C

[smithson83]

Shirt, Tie, Trousers, Shoes

[DevilsAdvocate]

Network Manager at an Academy and i'm suited and booted minus the jacket. Have got some scruffs under the desk for when I need to get down and dirty though.

[elsiegee40]

It very much depends on your school's dress code. Some have a school polo shirt combo for the techs, some have "office smart", some have "office casual" codes.

 

It has always been office casual for us. Suits and ties not required for support staff, but jeans banned. However, if I am doing grotty work or it is the holidays then jeans are allowed.

[Jasbo]

I wear as little as I can legally get away with while staying within the schools guidelines of taste and decency, it's a tightrope I walk everyday...

[PotNoodleTech]

I wear as little as I can legally get away with while staying within the schools guidelines of taste and decency, it's a tightrope I walk everyday...

 

Your miniskirts have been getting shorter and shorter....I may have to make a complaint!!

 

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Shirt, trousers, shoes for me. Reasonably tidy but no tie or anything to get sucked into a photocopier or server :S

[Scotbynature]

Full suit and tie for me, combats and polo shirt for my technician.

[Oaktech]

Ours code is office smart, but we have an exception for ties everyday under health and safety. We also have an exception for jeans and tshirt during the holidays or if we are undertaking dirty works.

[RichCowell]

The first school I worked at I had to wear a suit, but since the second school I've worn smart trousers, polo shirt, and safety boots (personal preference)... no rules in the holidays, so just jeans, polo shirt & trainers...

 

Always black trousers and a black polo shirt - saves thinking about what to wear!!

 

I tend to wear the same polo shirts out of work too (I've got better things to spend my money on than clothes lol)...

[Scrambles]

Branded polo shirt and combats for NM and us Techies.

[muppet]

Shirt, tie, trousers, shoes/boots here....sometimes even a suit, but that depends on who I'm meeting with.

I also have a set of scruffs in the car for when it's time to get dirty.

 

For the rest of the team it's shirt and trousers, tie optional......although I may implement a department polo shirt and trousers dress code if I can get the go-ahead.

[Abaddon]

Trousers and polo shirts (school logo'd) for techs & me (although I think some would prefer me in a suit). Holidays is Hawaiian shirt and shorts. Even in winter.

[dhicks]

Just a quick question regarding what you are required to wear to work on a normal working day.

 

Generally shoes, shirt and trousers (no tie, it tends to get stuck in things), sometimes school-logo "staff" hoodie, and on the first day of term (St. George's day) I spent half the morning dressed in a dragon onesie, being chased by the headmaster dressed as St. George.

[synaesthesia]

Cargo trousers and polo shirt for all the IT staff. We're suitably dressed for the job we do (we're all hands-on). I will happily strangle anyone with a tie if they suggest I wear one.

[eyetea]

Smart shoes / trousers / shirt - tie optional. School hols, whatever we want within reason.

[ButterflyMoon]

Safety shoes, black combats, school polo shirts, summer hols anything we like.

[BKGarry]

School rules here are all male members of staff are to wear Shirt, Tie, Trousers and Shoes, Unless you are the DT technician (due to health and safety reasons), women are to wear smart "business" clothing, although there is working parting discussing the school dress code.

[LincolnE]

During Term time it's smart trousers, safety shoes and a black polo shirt/sweater. Holiday is more relaxed.

[Sagima]

Officially we need to be as smart as is practical for our work, unofficially that only seems to apply to the male members of staff and SMT.

Saying that though, if I wear a shirt I have to wear a tie unless the school has suspended the requirement for students to wear them and short sleeves aren't encouraged (We get emailed telling us what level of dress is expected of the male staff; "dress code level 1" = buttoned up shirt, ties and rolled down sleeves or "dress code level 2" = optional no ties, top shirt button undone and rolled up sleeves).

I tend to just wear the same trousers, shirt, tie combinations I used to when I worked in the private sector during term time and jeans and t-shirt in holidays.

[witch]

Smart casual -no jeans. Males in school have to wear shirt and tie

I tend to wear smart suit trousers and long-sleeved tops. Rarely wear a skirt as that is bound to be the day I need to crawl under desks.

I would love a school polo shirt though.

In my other school,(which is a junior,) there seems to be little or no dress code - in the summer the teachers wear very skimpy tops and skirts or long shorts, with flip-flops. Very unprofessional I think

Edited June 12, 2014 by witch

[X-13]

that only seems to apply to the male members of staff

 

what level of dress is expected of the male staff

 

Gotta love how casually sexist education is.

 

 

I'm usually in jeans and a T-shirt/shirt. Not really supposed to be wearing jeans... but I cleared it with the HT. His view was that it doesn't apply to me and the site team.

[Danp]

Term time, smart trousers, shirt and shoes. Don't wear a tie as it 'could' be a hazard. It was a nice change to wear a full suit for open morning.

 

Holidays, anything goes!

[witch]

Gotta love how casually sexist education is.

 

 

I'm usually in jeans and a T-shirt/shirt. Not really supposed to be wearing jeans... but I cleared it with the HT. His view was that it doesn't apply to me and the site team.

 

I wouldn't want to be put in a different category to the main staff as I think that fosters the "them and us" attitude and also doesn't help the teachers to see IT as highly qualified and specialist as they are.

As for the casual sexism - not here - female staff have to have covered shoulders, no very short skirts or shorts, and no flip-flops are allowed

[X-13]

I wouldn't want to be put in a different category to the main staff as I think that fosters the "them and us" attitude and also doesn't help the teachers to see IT as highly qualified and specialist as they are.

As for the casual sexism - not here - female staff have to have covered shoulders, no very short skirts or shorts, and no flip-flops are allowed

 

I don't mind the allowance. I'm under tables and whatnot, so something more hard wearing is "appropriate clothing".

 

And we've had a PE teacher get told to wear a shirt + shoes [tie optional], when female staff are nearly falling out of their tops.

[network41]

Everybody suited and booted