School uniform - in pictures

A pupil in the playground at Vernon Junior School in Poynton, Cheshire.
Photograph: Christopher Thomond for The Guardian

Year 7 pupils on their first day at Burlington Danes school, White City, London.
Photograph: Martin Godwin for The Guardian

At Elizabeth Garrett Anderson school in Islington, London, pupils helped to design a new school uniform. The new uniform "gives students more freedom and makes them feel more comfortable about the way they look". Photograph: Frank Baron for the Guardian

A new eco-blazer marketed by North Yorkshire firm School Colours, who make school uniforms out of recycled plastic bottles.
Photograph: Christopher Thomond for The Guardian

Boys from Eton College line up on a wall to get a better view during a visit by HM Queen Elizabeth II in June 1990. Photograph: Getty Images

Girls play hopscotch at Tarleton Mere Brow C.E. primary school, Lancashire.
Photograph: Christopher Thomond for The Guardian

The first day of the new Nottingham academy - the largest school in europe.
Photograph: Fabio De Paola for The Guardian

Pupils at Harrow school walk through the grounds with traditional straw boaters.
Photograph: Dov Makabaw/Alamy

Four primary school children in traditional school uniform. Photograph: Niki Mareschal/Getty Images

Schoolboys at Eton College in traditional waistcoats and tailcoats. Photograph: Tim Graham/Alamy

The Tudor uniform, worn at Christ's Hospital school for the past 450 years, received a massive thumbs-up in a poll which showed pupils wanted to maintain the school's many historic traditions. Photograph: Christ's Hospital School

Price & Buckland are the first school uniform supplier to incorporate a Hijab into their range. Picture is posed by an employee - who is neither a schoolgirl or a Muslim.
Photograph: David Sillitoe for The Guardian

Back to school for the first day of term for Year 7 pupils at Oasis Academy Media City.
Photograph: Christopher Thomond for The Guardian

Pupils at Bexley business academy, London, are photographed by former teacher and photographer George Plemper. He documented children at the school in the 1970s then returned 20 years later.
Photograph: Sarah Lee for The Guardian

Pupils at Anthony Gell School in Wirksworth, Derbyshire, wear their usual clothes to the school, which doesn't have a uniform.
Photograph: Fabio de Paola for The Guardian