Leavers hoodies timing - AIBU?

[SafferUpNorth]

Totally first world problem here but just looking for an anonymous sense check.

We're in Scotland. Parent to a DC in P7 (final year of primary) at an independent school. He moved there in Aug 2019 so still getting settled into school customs, what with the interruption of Covid lockdowns and all.

Email arrives today to order leavers hoodies. Order closing date 4 May with a 3 week lead time on deliveries so presumably we will only get the hoodies at the start of June, so a month before the end of the school year. Not much time to wear them then.

Meantime the local school kids have them already, and most other schools I know of around here have them at least for the final term.

What is the spectrum of traditions with leavers hoodies? For how long in the final school year would you expect to have them? I am from abroad but even so we had a special blazer (!) we wore for the entire final year.

The schools around here (Renfrewshire) get them when they leave school. My niece got hers the last official day of the term

My daughter was allowed to wear them for the final week only.

Last week wear only here too.

Traditional DD’s primary gave it out mid June when they went on a residential. We lobbied to move it to the end of SATS as a celebration.

Friends have children at another school and they changed the timing to the start of Summer term.

I first thought spending that much money on something they don’t wear a lot is idiotic but DD is now in Y9 and still puts it on regularly. Just order it two sizes up.

On all the schools I've worked in they get presented with them at the leavers' assembly. They wouldn't be able to wear them in school anyway as the schools all have uniforms. I was always under the impression that they are just supposed to wear them outside of school (which realistically isn't much at all because it's summer and then they're too cool to wear something like that in secondary school)

Last day here as well

Ours get given out at one of the leavers events in the last week, they usually get a couple of days to wear them in school.

Last week of year 6 only. More of a keepsake for leaving school.

Last week as well.

Get them before May half term here and allowed to wear them immediately.

They get them just before school winds up for summer at end of June

Last day of school. Never occurred to me that they should have them earlier.

When they go on their residential. Last week of June, ish.

I'm not sure what you mean by not much chance to wear them, I don't think they ever wore them in school except on their residential.

We used to get them on the last day of term!

I work in a high school in Scotland and lots of the first year pupils wear their primary seven hoodies throughout S1.

They get them on the last day of term here and to my surprise wear them for the next couple of years.

Last day only

Only one of mine got a leavers' hoody from primary. They were given out at the leavers' party in the last week of term.

Ours are usually for the residential which happens in September but this year its a little different, hopefully they will still do them

I thought these things were more of a memento rather than a specific uniform requirement

My youngest school (Edinburgh) has the leavers hoodies at the start of p7 I know a lot of schools round here do it that way

Ours would have been given out over Xmas but covid intervened. They are having them to wear to school from Monday.

our school usually give them out the week of the year 6 pgl trip (which was scheduled for October this year but usually May ish, we were told they got a fab deal) We've actually had them since the end of September, which I'm so pleased about given the hokey-cokey lockdowns! Kids are allowed to wear them in lieu of school jumpers on a Monday

My DD is in P7 in an independent school and they don’t get them. DPs daughter is in P7 at a state primary and can wear hers all of June.

DD got hers last week of school last year but obviously not sure what the proper tradition is as last year was so atypical. All DD’s friends wear theirs regularly though (DD’s is massive so she doesn’t wear hers much).