About year 6 leavers hoodies

These hoodies aren’t uniform.

Non uniform can, and does, make some kids lose their sense of regulation.

I can see they may be reasons why the school don’t want them worn before then.

Also, at the risk of being told I lack fun, it’s the rules they’ve set out. I do wonder when parents question the rules if they think the school made them up for shits and giggles.

My kids all had these hoodies when they left primary. And unless it is peculiar to the area of the UK where I live, most summer holidays you see kids around and about wearing their hoodies. So if the issue is lack of use, encourage them to wear them during the summer holidays.

Why are people saying these hoodies are wasteful? You often see teens out and about wearing their school hoodies… how is that wasteful if they’re being worn?

I got roped into organising school leavers hoodies a few years ago as school didn’t want to arrange it. It was a logistical nightmare! Had to chase parents for weeks over payments (it wasn’t compulsory to get one but every parent asked for one) School then wanted to hand them out the week before the end of term. It was baking hot and the children were all wearing them in the scorching weather.

The bottom line here @Readyforthelaunch is your opinion matters not a jot , the school has made its decision and frankly you are being utterly ridiculous thinking it’s a big deal .

Are leavers' hoodies a thing now? I'm a primary teacher and this is the first I've heard of them.

My son in currently in year 6 and his school sold the hoodies themselves they where allowed to wear them from the minute they started year 6

It's a pretty expensive thing to wear for one day only!
My DD school had school trip hoodies from the start of Y6 (they had a residential and they were very handy for the school to spot the kids!) and then a leaver's hoodie for the final term. They could wear the leaver's hoodie from the day they got it, which was the day before the Easter holidays.

Are you joking? The parent won't be making a penny. Do you think nobody out there does anything nice without making money from it?

Me and a couple of other parents organised this for our year 6's a few years back, i was the one collected the money and made the payment and i can tell you it actually cost me a little something as the hoodies were quoted at for eg £18.10 per hoodie and i just said £18 to people then paid the balance of a few quid myself.

This happened in our son’s primary school too.
A very expensive purchase for basically one day!
The summer was warm, so he’d no opportunity to wear it, and by September, he was taller, and broader.
Also, he wanted to align with secondary school and move on from primary.
It also happened again at the end of secondary school for both my children.
However, not buying it, doesn’t seem an option.
It must seem like an even more unnecessary expense for people struggling financially.

This seems such a shame, at our school the year 6s wear them from about Easter through til the end of term (only available in the same colour as the normal school jumpers)

Ultimately you can think what you want, but the school decide the uniform policy and whether or not to relax it without having to provide justification.
So you'll just have to not like it.

As an aside, why didn't whoever organised them actually ask whether they'd be allowed to wear them?

They are a waste of money. Worn for a day or two there are several of my children’s upstairs fron 10+ years ago. You can’t charity shop them as no use to anyone else so essentially off to landfill. They did have yearbooks which are worth keeping.

Yup. DS loved his hoodie so much. He wore it for the last weeks of school and many summer evenings. Then he started secondary and his lovely hoodie has never since seen the light of day.

I think all schools are different in how they organise them. My sons friends school organise the hoodies but they are all the school colour and included the school logo, they got given them after sats and wore them to school after that. My sons school hoodies are organised by parents who are also organising the yr6 leavers party which last year included me. We gave the children the option to pick the colour of their hoodies, because of this the children only got to wear them for last 2 weeks at school as head teacher didnt understand why they weren't all the same colour. We also gave the kids the option of all same or different and not 1 kid out of 22 wanted a jumper the colour of the school uniform. So kids didnt mind at all.

My dd is 18 and her primary school one still fits! Her one from secondary school is still worn all the time
I can see both sides tbh. I'm pretty sure that the primary ones were given out at the leavers party.

Why on earth should the school let them wear them? I don't understand. Not all the kids will have one, either because they can't afford it or they just don't want one. It's not organised by the school. Wearing it last day is the norm in loads of schools. I'm confused.

I organised the yr 6 hoodies this year - it was an absolute ballache and I absolutely did not make money out of it! Parents paid the school which sent a bulk payment to the printers.The PTA paid for 3 whose parents requested financial assistance. The kids were allowed them the Monday after SATs and they are now the year 6 uniform. They are allowed whatever colour they like.

At my child’s school, a parent organised them (without taking a cut). A lot of effort went into making sure all children were included, and the PA covered for those who could not afford.

The hoodies were all the same colour as the PE sweatshirt, and school agreed to let them wear the hoodies for PE days only from Christmas

I think this is a nice compromise.

There has been an issue with a few hoodies going walkabout for a while, even apparently some clearly labelled on the outside, which I guess was predictable with 60-odd identical items. It caused some upset as some children found that their pristine hoodie went missing, but there was a slightly tatty one left at school.

I’d recommend therefore to anyone who may be in the position of the organiser to see whether initials could be added to the front, so it’s obvious to the children which is which.

The way these parents are acting sounds a sure fire way to make sure they are just banned in school all together for future year groups.

School have made a clear rule. Parents don’t need to fight back against everything!

Maybe it’s an attitude issue? They don’t want to push the idea that it’s almost the end or the year yet because they need to wrangle the classes for another 3-4 weeks. They don’t want the kids to be in holiday mode yet.

Why does everything we do now have to cost money and create stuff. What was wrong with your classmates signing your shirt?!?!

Good grief! No-one is saying that not being able wear hoodies causes the issues later on. 😆