Late last year students at Caroline Springs’ Lakeview College ditched their uniforms.
The school normally follows a strict dress code, but last September students donned casual clothes for a day to support the annual Jeans for Genes fundraiser.
The event was overwhelmingly popular. So much so, that Lakeview College made it into the top-10 Victorian schools for money raised with a total of $5687.
College captain Korey Osman said the key to the success was teamwork.
“Most of this was all about making sure everyone knew about the day,” Korey said.
“We were really lucky that the school’s leaders were happy to work with the students to get this off the ground.
“We don’t have many out of uniform days and we really pushed for this to be a full casual dress day.”
While a lot of planning went into the day, Korey admitted he was surprised with how well embraced the day was.
“We had both students and staff embrace it. There was a lot of planning that went in to some of the outfits,” he said.
“We also didn’t actually know we made it into the top 10 until recently, it was just nice to see so many students willing to get involved.”
Korey said the casual clothes day will be back in 2018.
“The school leaders placed extra trust in the students and they weren’t let down. We’re all looking forward to doing it again.”
