Uniform

Please note, the senior girls, Years 5 – 8, have a slightly different uniform to the juniors.

Winter Uniform

Junior [New Entrant – Year 4]

Pinafore [Ancient Douglas Tartan].
Pale blue button-through blouse.
Royal blue cardigan.
Plain bottle green tights or over-the-knee socks.
Black dress leather shoes, or black leather T Bar shoes [T Bar shoes for New Entrant - Year 4]. Girls must be able to tie and manage their laces independently.
Any plain black jacket [no colour or large labels visible]

Seniors [Years 5 - 8]

Tartan skirt [Ancient Douglas Tartan].
Pale blue button-through blouse.
Royal blue cardigan.
Plain bottle green tights or over-the-knee socks.
Black dress leather lace-up shoes or black T Bar shoes [not leather sneakers].
Any plain black jacket [no colour or large labels visible].

Summer Uniform - All Pupils

Blue checked dress with white trim
White sockettes [not sports socks]
Black dress leather lace-up shoes or black leather T Bar shoes [not leather sneakers].
Royal blue cardigan.
Sunhat. This is compulsory in Terms 1 and 4. Any plain blue/navy sunhat is acceptable. Bucket hats/wide-brimmed hats cover the face and ears as required. These can be purchased at The U Shop or The Warehouse.

Sports Uniform - All Pupils

Navy and pale blue polo top.
Navy blue microfleece top.
Navy Canterbury shorts.
Navy Canterbury track pants [not shown].
SJGS sports socks
Sports shoes.
Lycra dance shorts [worn for dance only].

General Uniform Information

Hair

Hair must be kept neat, tidy and off the face at all times. Shoulder-length hair or longer is to be tied back with plain, navy blue hair clasps, hair ties, scrunchies and/or ribbons. Girls may wear navy blue headbands and natural colour bobby pins. Hair is to be a natural colour only.

Jewellery/Make Up

No jewellery to be worn except a standard analogue or digital watch or small, plain studs in silver, gold, clear or navy/dark blue [only one in each earlobe]. No decorative studs and no keepers are to be worn.
Girls may choose to wear a personal taonga [pounamu] with their uniform. This may be worn on the outside of their uniform. They may be asked to put their taonga under their uniform for health and safety during certain activities.
Smart watches with communication capabilities are not to be worn [Apple Watch, Garmin, Pixbee, Spacetalk or anything with GPS, wifi 3G/4G]. Smart watches need to be kept in school bags until the end of the day. If a watch becomes a distraction, the teacher may ask the student to remove the watch and place it in their school bag.
Girls are not permitted to wear make-up or nail polish.

Examples of correct earrings

Examples of correct hair accessories

Bobby pins must match natural hair colour as closely as possible.

Changing In and Out of Uniform

Girls should always leave the school grounds in the correct uniform unless they are going directly to a sports venue [for a school sporting event only starting by 4pm], in which case they may wear their PE uniform.

General Uniform Standards

Top buttons are to be done up [winter shirts and summer dresses].
Socks and collars are worn folded down.
PE shorts or dark blue/black cycle shorts may be worn beneath dresses as long as they cannot be seen. If girls are taking their kilts/skirts off to play, they must be wearing their school PE shorts.
Girls may have bare feet outside, but must have shoes on in class and when climbing in the hedge.
Girls are not allowed to walk around outside in their socks.

Uniform Purchases

The uniform shop at the school has stocks of all uniform requirements, except shoes and jackets, but including green socks. Good quality second-hand uniforms are also available. Contact Mrs Marise Lang to make an appointment. Email mlang@stjohnsgirls.school.nz or send a note with your daughter of your requirements if it is only an item or two. We can issue uniform items with parental written consent and invoice you for it.

Shoes

The U Shop [Dee Street] and Number 1 Shoes/Hannahs stock our required uniform shoes. Our school dress shoes are not to have velcro fastenings. Velcro is allowed on sports shoes.

Examples of correct uniform shoes

[T Bar shoes for NE - Yr 4]

We are frequently finding that we are unable to get the same uniform items so have to change. Each time there is a uniform change, we have a generous transition period.