At the boarding school I was at you couldn't wear your own clothes up until Senior School. (two years in each house) Then you could wear what ever you wanted. It wasn't the nicest of place and was a cross between a school and a correction facility, but it was such a laugh. Had to wear these shitty beige jeans and yellow shirts, got to wear our own trainers and hats and scarfs and stuff, lower school had a light green jumper, middle school had red and senior had dark green. When you first went to the school you didn't get a badge on the jumper, just a plain jumper. And if you hadn't "earned" your badge after 6 months you got kicked out and sent to a 52 week lock up if you were lucky and then you still got GCSE's, if not you just didn't get into another school. It was really last of the line ! Classes were 5 to a class, with 6 lessons a day. Each consisting of an hour and a half in the morning with 15 min breaks in between. Then an hour for lunch, then two afternoon lessons with 25 minute breaks in between. You could stay on at the weekends if you were good, but only a few people stayed. 3 or 4 a weekend. You couldn't spend more than 3 weeks in a row there so thats what I did, 3 weeks in then a weekend at home. At the weenends we did cool shit like Go Karting, shooting, camping, cycling and things. The school was massive, but there were only circa 50 people there at one time. It was an EBD school, and to be fair it did it's job on me. I was such a little f**k up until I got into that place and took what they had to teach me onboard. Heres a photo of the front of the school, unfortunately I can't find any more photo's of it because it's an EDB school so the kids are seen as "at risk" and camera's aren't allowed on site - *The "Badge" was the schools name "St Edwards" in gold embroidery on the left chest. Funnily enough the un-badged jumpers were really scratchy and nasty and were paper thin, but the badged ones were thick, warm and soft. I remember thinking "wow f**k me!!!" when I got given my badge. (They had a morning parade on Fridays before people went home and once a month they'd give a few people who had proved themselves a badged jumper and they had to put the jumper on and have a photo taken). I must have seen 100 people get admitted and then removed from that place in the 5 years I was there. haha