Vanguard Branded Uniforms & School Pride – Equalizing the Classroom Experience

What Your Gift Supports
This initiative makes sure every K–5 SR1 CPSA student has high-quality, branded school uniforms and clothing at no cost to their family. Your gift helps provide complete uniform sets—shirts, pants or skirts, and seasonal items like jackets—so every child can walk onto campus feeling prepared and proud.

Your support also equips students with specialized STEM gear that many families simply cannot afford lab coats, safety goggles, and other protective equipment for science labs and hands-on experiments. When a child puts on a lab coat and puts on goggles, they don’t just look like a scientist—they feel like one.

In addition, your generosity supports SR1 CPSA-branded athletic gear and club apparel so students can fully participate in sports, competitions, and after-school programs, as well as special items like team jerseys, graduation or promotion regalia, and spirit wear T-shirts for school events. When you give, you are not just buying clothes—you are wrapping a child in dignity, belonging, and school pride, and placing the tools of STEM discovery directly in their hands.

Why It Matters
A simple uniform can change the way a child experiences school. When everyone is dressed in the same colors and crest, it levels the playing field, removing visible signs of who has more and who has less. Instead of worrying about being teased for worn-out shoes or not having name-brand outfits, students can focus on friendships, learning, and teamwork. Uniforms send a powerful message each morning: You belong here. You are part of something bigger.

STEM gear has a similar impact. Without proper lab coats and goggles, students may be sidelined during experiments or feel unsafe participating. Providing this equipment ensures that every child can join in hands-on science and engineering activities—not just those whose families can afford extra supplies. Lab coats and goggles signal to children that they are trusted to do “real” science, building confidence, curiosity, and a sense of possibility.

For families, the cost of uniforms and specialized gear can be overwhelming—often hundreds of dollars per child each year. For households already juggling rent, food, gas, and utilities, that extra expense can mean real sacrifice. Your support lifts that burden. Parents no longer have to choose between paying a bill and buying a blazer, winter coat, or safety goggles. Every child arrives dressed for success and ready to learn, and every family feels the relief of knowing their child “fits in” and is fully equipped.

Stability and Protection for the Future
Your gift to the uniform and STEM gear initiative is designed to be stable, student-centered, and future-focused. Funds are carefully stewarded so they remain dedicated to one purpose: clothing and equipping SR1 CPSA children for learning and success, year after year. If policies or funding priorities ever shift, this support for uniforms, lab coats, goggles, and other essentials is still there shielded from political changes and focused solely on students’ daily needs.

By investing in uniforms and STEM gear for SR1 CPSA’s K–5 students, you help create a school climate where every child starts the day on equal footing—confident, safe, and proud to wear their school’s emblem, whether they are in the classroom, on the playground, or in the lab. It’s a simple, powerful way to say: You matter. You belong. We have you covered – just fill your day with curiosity and learning.