CHILDREN yesterday turned away from a Gosport school for having the wrong uniform were this morning returning in the correct attire.

Cheryl Heron, head teacher at Bridgemary Community School, has imposed a controversial zero-tolerance uniform policy.

Yesterday, 50 children were turned away for wearing clothes bearing fashionable labels, sporting earrings, wearing non-black shoes, wearing incorrect trousers and not wearing regulation school jumpers and polo shirts.

This morning, Mrs Heron said: "Definitely less children are coming into school today wearing the incorrect uniform. School is back to normal. The children who are not in uniform will be dealt with.

"There is a little group of children who spoil it for everybody. I am pleased with the way it is going." Mrs Heron said she had instituted the new policy to help drag the school up from the bottom of the local league tables.

This morning some children were again being sent home for wearing the incorrect uniform-but most were toeing the line.

Wayne Francis, 12, was sporting a new pair of regulation black trousers, after yesterday being sent home for wearing cargo-style trousers.

His mum, Linda, 39, a care assistant of Elmore Road, Lee-on-the-Solent, said: "Last term the cargo trousers were okay, but I do not mind having to buy a new pair of trousers. It makes them all the same.

"A lot of kids and mums do not agree with uniform but they should all wear it."

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