About year 6 leavers hoodies

This sounds more like year 6 has an extra item of uniform which is a hoody rather than a "leavers hoody". I say that because it's school colour and worn for the year. I doubt they choose to wear that after finishing do they?

I don’t get the ‘non uniform’ thing. They are part of the uniform for our Yr6s. Extra uniform, if you like, but not non uniform. I haven’t noticed them making Yr 6 any more badly behaved than Yr6 normally are, in any of the schools I’ve worked in. Maybe that is because we don’t limit them to the last day/week of term. But our parents work with the school and agree on the same color as the school jumper, plus we provide the logo for the company to embroider.

Our school order them (paid for by parents) and won’t let any child wear them until the last day. Pretty unfair imo.

I am with the school on that.

Children walking around with their names and school logo printed on them is a major problem in terms of safety (in my humble opinion).

I am almost a bit uneasy with the normal school uniform having a school logo on them.... It is almost advertising the location of a child + the timelines of entry exit times.. That's why I take it off when we are outside school (if we go to a park after school for example).... And I would probably won't buy them it going forward, just plain ones .....

I haven't read all comments, I am sure I am not the only one who think this could be a problem .... Perhaps I am paranoid but better be safe than sorry !!

On a national level it is a lot of landfill if the vast majority of kids in a couple of year groups are buying a school crested hoody - and let's say 50% don't wear them beyond one day.

I thought we were teaching our kids to care more about the environment than this.

I have read this thread and people saying their kids have worn them for years. My guess is it will be a minority that would choose to wear a sweater emblazoned with their school and name outside of school but a survey (a year after getting them or something) would be interesting to see if the majority are wasted or used.

They are only wasteful if they don’t get worn after whatever they were printed to commemorate, @Readyforthelaunch. As I said earlier, my dses wore their senior school leavers’ hoodies for ages after they’d left school, and I saw plenty of other kids wearing their leavers’ hoodies.

Same at our school in regards to uniform, some kids come in wearing whatever they want. Tracksuits, multicoloured trainers, white fox hoodies - it’s ridiculous!
Makes the school look so untidy.

It's a non-uniform item. It's not allowed.

All the schools I’ve worked in and both of my children were allowed to wear the leavers hoodies after SATs. No point having them for one day! As soon as my kids were in secondary they didn’t want to wear their primary hoodies anymore.

My daughters school they wore them on the last day. I've seen loads of (presumably) school leavers wearing them in the school holidays. My daughter still wears hers now in her twenties. Parents are not happy, tough.

Seems a shame, mine all loved their leavers hoodies. School made a big deal out of them, they all had a vote on the colour so the whole year group had the same. Parents ordered them early via school, and then school held onto them and handed them out after the last SATS exam along with a small celebration. They then wore them every day until they left - and over the summer.
It was such a special part of the end of Primary for all of mine.

You would have done it differently if you were in charge OP, but you're not. It must be stressful and time consuming for the teachers to have to keep explaining their decisions to angry parents. Some things are not worth fighting over.

I think it depends when the school dishes them out and on the child.

My son (16) just got his at half term. It's me that has taken it out of the cellophane and I don't think he will ever even try it on much less wear it. Utter waste of the earth's resources.

It's hard not to buy one - the school puts all the kids in the year groups first names on - only of those that have bought one so it's a bit of a guilt trip.

Can't they wear them to/from school and on their lunch breaks?

I think it sort of does.
Listening to the vast range of requests to pay for this, pay for that someone might want to add it all up. The next time a school begs for money for something basic like books they might want to remember what they are asking of people.
Years ago there really wasn’t this money for this, money for that. It isn’t right.

And the schools themselves are being a bit dim. How many hoodies, how many children ? They sanction it. But what, if any, records kept ?
If they sanction it they should keep some records.

It is a big deal to the children and parents who ordered one.

This is not the schools issue, those expectation have be created by the parents before approval from the school so it is the parents issue to reset those expectations without leaving the kids upset at their school for something that is not the schools fault.

School are allowing them to wear their leavers hoodies on the day they leave which sounds fair 🤷‍♀️

In ds's school they were allowed to wear them twice. Once on the day of a special leavers assembly and then later that week on the final day. Both days they wore them whole year group were giddy with excitement, strutting around in their hoodies, so I can see exactly why the school doesn't want to put up with that more than is necessary.

It is disingenuous because they are not the same things at all

They don't cost the same for a start, and some are fund raisers to try to benefit all the children, some are experience offered to the kids and someone has to pay for them, because there's no budget. Not exactly shocking that parents spend a little bit of money for their children education.

Not receiving a hoodie on the last day is not the same as seeing everyone wearing one when you don't have yours.

I get you are annoyed and you think the school rule is silly, but your children are really not going to lose out much but having their hoodie later. Again, just order a big size so they are baggy and can wear them months after, even at home if they prefer

Ours were allowed to wear them on Fridays after SATs. Then end of term. But it was so hot end of term they were sweating but determined !

Ours wear them for the whole of year 6... much more friendly for the environment and wallet as they get good use out of them and saved having to buy a logo cardigan this year

At our school kids have them for the whole of Y6 and are allowed to wear them to school on PE days. It means they get wear out of them and it goes with PE kit better than a cardigan. It's a very sensible approach and schools who fixate on uniform are focusing on the wrong things.

My son's school expects parents to organise and the school then hands them out (once said parent has labelled them) like manna from heaven.

I mean does it really matter either way?

Soon it will be a distant memory.

I would just go with the flow. I wouldn't get upset about it.

I've not heard of school letting them wear leaving hoodies after sats. At my DD's school they are paid for by the PTA and they are allowed to wear them the last week of school only.

You may have done so does not automatically mean others will do it your way.

I am afraid I have come too many people who would happily do it differently. Not all socially I hasten to add. And that would be the only reason they would do it.

So no, I wasn’t joking.

Leavers hoodies? Deary me.. When did this become a thing?