As you may recall from the April issue of Varndean Eye, we have been looking into ways of donating our old school uniform to charity before the introduction of the new uniform in September.

We have been offered a really exciting opportunity to support Varndean College as they will be taking some students to Zambia in July to work with the Kaloko Trust (more info on our website www.varndean.co.uk). They will take donated old school uniform from Varndean to children at the Kandulwe Community School as they are in need of this. If you would like more information on the Kaloko Trust click here.

As they will be leaving for Zambia on 20^th July we need to collect up old uniform before the end of the school term. To this end, I would like to ask you to arrange for all items of the old school uniform that you would like to donate to be brought into school on Monday 6^th July (latest). Items that no longer fit your children or are no longer needed can be brought in before that. Please ask your child to take their old uniform to Student Services.

From Monday, 6^th July, in order to mark the extraordinary event of a change of uniform from September 2009,  Varndean will operate a ‘Uniform Holiday’ for all students until the end of term – so all students can wear their own clothes to school (except for PE). We do, however, ask that your child wears appropriate clothing for a day at school.  Beach clothing e.g. flips flops, vests or crop tops etc are not acceptable.