... to ask if primary schools have leaver hoodies now?

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Lately, I am increasingly seeing young people with leavers hoodies, who look no older than 12/13.

Have primary schools started doing them?

Or am I just really old and 18-year olds now look like tweens to me?

I teach at uni but the students in my classes "look as they always have," for lack of a better description.

My kids school do year 6 leavers hoodies.

DD got one for leaving Y6 yes.

Ours does for year 6. The school give them out as gifts on the leavers trip to the beach
My eldest is 17 and it was an established thing then. It's been going on for yonks

Yes they do

Yep, year 6 when they leave, my eldest is 16 and he had one when he left 5 years ago, as had all the leavers in the preceding years so going back 10 years or so for his primary.

Ours had a leavers t shirt. It has been the most worn t shirt this summer. It has the name of the primary school on it so clearly worn by 11yo's.

They do at our Primary school in Scotland. Parents organise them though, not school and not the PTA.

Yes, my ds had a leavers hoodie for primary.

Our primary school do but only started a couple of years ago.

Dd's school did them at the start of P7, then they wear them all year instead of the normal jumper the rest of the school wear.

DS(14)'s old Primary school started having them when he was in Y5. They had previously had the tradition of pupils signing an old school t-shirt A parent who had a child in the then Y6 suggested and organised them and parents had to pay for them. Some parents were concerned that the children would stop the t-shirt signing thing, but the Y6 pupils managed to keep that going too, so they became a thing with the organiser handing down the organising mantle to a willing/coerced parent each year.

DS loved his and it had to be practically surgically removed from him so I could wash it.

Yes it's been a thing at our primary for at least 4 years.

My son had a leavers hoody in yr6 and he's now 21 and at uni so it's not new

Our school does T-shirts
School organises them but the PTA pays

Primary Schools round here do Leavers Hoodies in Year 6 (and year 6 “Prom” ).

Teenagers don’t look “awkward” any more. You see 12 and 13 year olds with flawless makeup and perfect “messy” buns. I don’t see as many “alternative” teens either. There’s a uniform round here of immaculate white trainers, and grey black and white or muted neutral skinny jeans, basic t-shirts and sweatshirts with parkas.

I grew up in the days of The Spice Girls and Britney. With bad but fun fashion choices. Hair Mascara, streaky Rimmell instant tan, glitter, bindis (I still love you Gwen Stefani), butterfly hair clips, bjork buns, terrible terrible makeup choices from the local market (Laval any one?!), Emo kids, Goths, Sporty, Preppy, “Townies”, Adidas popper pants, ridiculous satin skirts over satin trousers ala Steps, handkerchief tops, hippy jeans, pineapple type ponytails...I could go on. Going to Boots or Superdrug with a fiver and seeing how much Seventeen or Collection 2000 makeup you could get was a highlight. 99p nail polishes in every imaginable colour meant you could paint every nail a different shade.

It was all fun and yes, at times we looked f*ing awful. But I’d rather that and all the fun we had with fashion and experimenting with our “look” than this pressure to be “on fleek” and a flawless “Queen 👸🏻” . Social media has a lot to answer for. I regularly see 11 year olds with LVL lashes, nail extensions, HD brows etc...and that’s just for school.

Sorry all the above was in reference to this

Or am I just really old and 18-year olds now look like tweens to me?

To me tweens look like 18 year olds these days!

I also teach at a uni. I’d agree they look the same as they always did.

DS (just about to start yr8) got a leavers hoodie when he left primary a year and a half ago.
He wore it for the last month or primary and it’s been in a draw ever since.
It was £37....... I’m still irritated about it.

My sons school didn't but I have seen kids from other schools wearing them ,my son,s school.had a leavers meal ,
.

Yep but they are never cheap

There is a 3 school system here so kids get a leaver hoody in year 4 when they finish first school.

The pta raises the money for them so they are free.

Ours do and they wear them as school uniform for the last year of primary.

Hope not because they are one of the biggest rip offs going. My kid's got about a months wear out of theirs and they cost over 30 fucking quid. Terrible for the environment and terrible for my pocket!

Our primary does them, yes

They are not a terribly new thing. DD left primary in 2007 and they did Y6 leavers hoodies then