After an unusually hot spring day at school, the children came into class pulling the legs of their track suit pants up and complaining of how hot they were in their uniforms. This led to an interesting discussion about school uniforms. We decided to investigate what children would have worn to school in the olden days and explored how they would have felt when they played sport. Here is some of the work we did and some of the discoveries we made.

We made two new classmates. One of them is wearing our school uniform and the other is wearing the kind of clothes that children may have worn 100 years ago.

This is Glenmore Road Public School and we are in 1998. We wear blue and yellow shirts. We are proud of our uniform because we like our school and we like the teachers too. We wear school hats so we don't get sunburnt. I wear blue shorts and a blue hat and I like it very much because blue is my favourite colour. Anthony

We are very proud of our school uniform at Glenmore Road. We wear a school hat and a T-shirt and some pants and school shoes and socks and when it is raining we wear a school raincoat and we are comfortable in our uniform. Timmy I like the colours because yellow is my favourite colour and blue is my second. Leah

We are very proud of our school uniform because we like it. I wear a skirt and a short sleeved top, a school hat and a pair of school shoes. I think school is good. Sasha I like the Glenmore Road sign on our uniform because it tells everyone which school we go to. Miles

At our school we are very proud to wear our school uniform because we wear straw hats to protect our faces from the sun and skirts and t-shirts and school shoes. Our hair is tied back and we wear a tunic in winter or a track suit to keep us warm. I really like our uniform because everyone knows which school we go to. It's the best school. Kelly

We decided to compare the kinds of clothes that children wore 100 years ago with what is worn for school today, so with half of the children wearing olden day clothes and the other half wearing our school uniform, activities such as stilt walking, skipping and soccer were undertaken.
OUR OBSERVATIONS
OLDEN DAY CLOTHES	MODERN DAY UNIFORMS
You can trip over very easily because I had such a long skirt, but it was still fun.......Charlotte It was very hot and my clothes made it hard to kick the ball.......Timmy The air got under my dress. It felt very hot.......Leah It would make me think about playing games. I was too hot and itchy in all those clothes.......Brendon	It was very easy to play our games. Our clothes are loose and better for running.......Anthony Our groups were faster because our clothes were made for us to play. Also they don't get so dirty as the white ones.......Caitlin It was easy to jump over the rope and easy to run around in our school uniforms.......Jade It made it easy to walk on stilts and run fast in soccer.......Jack

In the olden days the girls wore long dresses and couldn't run because they would get their dresses dirty and their mums wouldn't be able to get them clean. Caitlin	In the 1900s there were lots of children in Glenmore Road School. The boys wore puffy pants and stockings and bow ties and the girls wore stockings and long dresses to the ground. Sofia	In the 1900s boys wore puffed up pants and long sleeves and stockings and boots and the girls wore long tunics with long sleeves too. It trapped air inside it and they were uncomfortable. Will
When it was the 1900s the uniforms were not very comfortable because when it was hot you had to wear stockings. But now it is comfortable because we can wear short sleeved shirts. Miles		In the 1900s uniforms were very uncomfortable. They were hot. The boys wore puffy pants to their knees , stockings and boots. The girls wore bows and long dresses. Christoper
In the olden days the boys had to wear puffy pants up to their knees and long sleeved shirts, stockings and a bow tie. Their clothes were uncomfortable because it would be very hot to wear clothes like that. Cara	In the 1900s the clothes they wore were really uncomfortable because they wore puffy pants but now our uniforms are very comfortable. Their hair was tied back in the hot weather. The boys wore braces and girls wore very long dresses and they couldn't run in them and the boys wore stockings underneath their puffy pants and a bow tie. Leah	In the olden days the boys wore puffy pants, long sleeved shirts, stockings, bows and boots. The girls wore very long skirts and very long dresses, long sleeve shirts, hair tied back. It would feel very uncomfortable. Olden day people only got one bath a week. Lara

Glenmore Road is so cool, Because we are a Public School. We read and write every day, In the playground we can play. The weekends are our days off, Or if you're sick or have a cough! Jackson, Heydon, T.T. and Ned - 2 Viola

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