About year 6 leavers hoodies

I would assume the kind parent is making a bit out of doing it.

Why do you assume that? Is that what you would do?

Not at all but there's a reason why youngsters are having problems in workplaces.

Vast majority of state school teachers are socialists. Socialist love rules and control .

I would expect no less of them to make it difficult.

My DC's school have been wearing leavers hoodies for months! Since they arrived basically. It was agreed on the basis that the hoodies were the same colour as the school jumpers (with the same logo on the front too). They've loved it and felt grown up! They were bought with fundraising so no risk of anyone being left out

They’re a souvenir/alumni item more than anything though aren’t they, not uniform. I’d not be getting upset about it, just wear them on the last day and outside school.

In my day we all just scribbled messages on each others school shirts in marker pen on the last day, but I do see that times move on!

In DCs school year 6 can wear them from when the sats have finished to the end of the year. It means they get their monies worth and get to set themselves apart as a special year who are nearly done with primary. They're in a wide selection of colours and look great 😃 Your DC's school sound miserable!

It's such a non event. Children need to learn they can't always do what they want to.

Ours were given them on the Friday after SATs because that is when they really feel like leavers. Our school always organised them and I believe any child on FSM got a hoodie paid for by the school, the rest of the parents paid for their child.

Multitude of colours and visible for all the parents of children in the lower years and something for them to look forward to too. I think is a bit sad that the school has said they will be confiscated. It is technically a summer coat.

Reading an earlier post about parents having to stump up for all sorts including Santa grottos, dress up days, proms etc you name it.
No wonder people haven’t got any money.
People this did not happen years ago.

We used to autograph each other’s shirts, do they still do that?. It’s free!

Same when my DD left P7, they ordered them as soon as P7 started, they came just before the October holidays and she wore hers as part of school uniform throughout the winter right up until leaving day. Parents had to pay for them ourselves but I didn't mind since she got plenty wear out of it. I wouldn't have been impressed at having to pay £30 for something to wear for one day, especially when it's warm and she probably wouldn't even have kept it on.

The policies on and organisation of leavers’ hoodies seem to differ from school to school and even year to year. Some get them early in the year and are able to wear them as uniform. That marks them out as P7s and at least gets use out of them. But I can see how it creates a problem if they are lost or damaged part way through the year. Also some seem to be able to choose their colour whereas others seem to have to choose a school colour. Only for the last day seems a bit rubbish, what’s the point? I think a good compromise would be after the Easter holidays. Obviously no SATs here.

My DD’s school had a separate, differently coloured P7 jumper which was a PITA as it was just another thing to buy. Then she got a hoodie with 2 weeks to go which was worn about twice then she lost interest as soon as she moved to secondary school. At least hers was paid for by the parent council. 2 years later they cost £25 and DS had absolutely no interest in getting one so that saved a few bob.

I have found these printed hoodies to be an environmental crime. My son has had one for leaving primary school, 2 or 3 for different school trips abroad and now one for finishing secondary. He's never worn any of them beyond the actual trip abroad and (printed with school logos/his name etc) he never would.

He's only just got the high school one - I don't have the heart to say no. The others have gone to the clothes bank but I doubt they are any good to anyone (printed with his name and school).

I think this enormous waste needs to stop. If the school is going to do hoodies letting the kids wear them for a year at least stops them being a total waste. Even a t-shirt would be less wasteful as less material and more likely to be worn as casual.

When DS left they gave them out at the leavers assembly on the second to last day, so they only wore them for two days (and not much then as it was boiling). Apparently in the past they gave them out before the residential (allowed on residential but not in school), but got fed up of the fuss and upset caused when they inevitably got lost or mixed up. He did however pretty much live in it for the whole summer holidays.

Could this be because not all the children's parents can afford them and the school want to minimise any potential fall out?

It could also be that school have decided not to allow it as it’s a bit like non uniform days, behaviour is applying when it’s a non uniform day so maybe school don’t want another 6 weeks of extra poor behaviour. It’ll already be bad as it’s the last half term and kids are ready to move on throw in non uniform and you may as well give up now!!

The school my DD1 went to only allowed them
to wear it in the last weeK of the term. DD2 is in a diff primary sch and not yet in y6 but the year 6 children have been wearing their hoodies since January. I think that’s better as they get good use of it rather than buying a new school jumper because DD1 didn’t wear hers again after the last day of school so it was just a waste of money really.

Meant to add, for DC1 they were allowed to wear them on the last day, regardless of colour

Our p7s wear them and have done for years, but they get them on the inset day before going back in August and wear them as their jumpers for the whole year. They also hand out a leavers tshirt with a whole class photo on it on the last day.

Our infant leaver are only allowed to wear them on PE days.