Year 6 end of school party cost

Just say you're concerned some parents won't be able to afford it so is there a away to cut the costs. Ask to see where the money is being spent so you can see if you can get things cheaper or free through friends. If its legit costings they'll share the info.

Then hoodies and year books. And the residential (different thing, but all part of year 6 costs). It's getting a bit silly.
DS2 missed all this because of covid.

Is this the first time it's been done?
Do you have children lower down in the school?
It sounds like they're trying to emulate end of secondary school Proms. Sigh.

Better be one hell of a party for over £1k for 30 kids! Especially if only £50 is hall hire

£40 is ridiculous IMO and likely to price a lot of people out of going. I would be tempted to say something to be honest. I might ask for a breakdown of costs if it’s the PTA, I genuinely don’t think it should be costing that much for room hire, half a pizza and a few prizes. Maybe they’re outsourcing services to friends who are charging whatever they want 🤷🏻‍♀️ a bit like the government and PPE during Covid.

Does your DC want to go? They might want to go to do something else to celebrate with just their friend group which might be cheaper.

Absolutely extortionate! I’m charging £80 a head for an insanely fancy 3 course black tie dinner in London!!!
£40 for a kids disco is a total rip off

Our PTA covers the costs for the year 6 leavers party from fundraising we do throughout the year.

we hold events for different year groups and only include a charge if it’s out of school time (for example “movie night” in the school hall is £8 per child and they get a bag of snacks and a drink. Plus a small gift of chocolate lollipop and stickers)

sounds like the PTA haven’t really done any forward planning for this at all.

my child wouldn’t be going

Ours is costing the same for a similar thing. I think it's far too expensive, but I don't want to get involved in the planning so apart from a brief comment about it seeming expensive I'm going along with it. I know what the food and hall costs, and have come to the conclusion they must be spending a lot on extras, eg decorations, photo booth, my son won't care about. But I don't want you be on the organising committee and i guess some kids are more into those things, so sucking it up. It's parents who volunteered to do it, as school don't arrange a party, so can't complain.

5yrs ago, ours was about £80/100 in total. Last day; 2hr prize giving assembly ,open top bus through town, yr book, fish n chip lunch, hoodies then picnic at next door village park, cake provided x
Year 6 leavers Disco party in school was free, pizza n ice cream, red carpet and Photo Booth !

My daughter just had a disco at school 5-7pm or maybe 6-8. Bit of party food, most of the boys wore their football kits and some but not all of the girls “dressed up” in party dresses. There was a ban on limos or anything similar.

£40 a ticket is mental for the year 6 disco. I paid about £25 for my daughter’s year 11 prom ticket and that was organised by a committee of parents and independent from the school who wanted nothing to do with it. 3 course meal, disco, security underage drinking in the loos at a nearby football stadium.

I’ve paid £15 for my daughters leavers party, similar idea but with bouncy castle, slushy machine, paparazzi style photographer and inflatable props. We’ve also bought a red carpet, ballon arch and sparkly curtain which we will gift to the school for subsequent years to use.

Crikey! Ifvyoubthimk thats a bit steep
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Ps. I'm up north too.

Parents are expected to transport their dc and stay on site. Parents are welcome to bring their own food and drink if they wish to eat and drink Siblings can attend at an extra cost.

Fuck that shit for a lark. If it included transport then it might be worth it. Can't think of anything worse than hanging around at one of these things.

Tickets for my DD Yr11 Prom were £40. This is at a nice hotel, with catering and DJ. Mixed demographic, but largely middle class area.

£36 to attend a disco and £33 each for a photo book.

That's absolutely ridiculous!!

It's not a bargain. Your experience is extortionate. Who is providing these things for your school because I can't see it being the school, most pupils would be excluded due to the costs.

Also how can a disco cost £36 each to attend...

Our school only has a free to attend disco at school. The school would never agree to the PTA running an event with such high ticket costs as it will inevitably exclude some students. We are in London.

40 quid?! I can only assume you are in a rich part of the north. I am in a ‘deprived’ part and that price would be prohibitively expensive for most families round here.

It’s a bargain!! Our have a leavers disco. £36 each, go carting on last day £28 each, photobook £33, hoodies £25 and then a meal !!

Those hoodies are so naff

Our PTA spends about this per leaver, but it's free to the leavers themselves, and parents and siblings are invited. The PTA year 6 committee raise the money throughout the year in other ways. And yes it's a wood fired pizza van, a Photo Booth, (capitalised again!) an ice cream van, various stalls and fun activities. I think the venue might be provided free through school connections, not sure. These things are expensive to run if you buy in providers rather than doing it on the cheap, tbh, and I doubt any mums are turning a profit. More likely to be making a loss if my brief experience of being on the PTA myself a few years ago is anything to go by!

However - it's different if you're charging families directly, and they maybe should have tried to be more inclusive with pricing especially if it's not an affluent area.

Ours was either 10 or 15 quid. Class of 45. Parish centre. Pay bar. Parents told to come or arrange someone to be responsible (we weren't being free childcare for the night). 3d photobooth. Hotdogs for the party kids and £1 for siblings. DJ, party bags I think had popcorn sunglasses and sweets and some other tat. Last year. We had a fab time. Parents had a dance off!

£40 is a rip off.

I'm running a prom for some year 11s including fireworks and it's less than 40 quid

What fresh hell? Is this even a thing? And prom? Wtf?! DC is in year 3 so I guess I have this to look forward to.