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Leavers hoodies timing - AIBU?

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SafferUpNorth · 11/03/2021 22:50

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.

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Yubaba · 11/03/2021 23:31

Ours get them for their residential trip which is normally in October of Year 6, they are probably not going to get a PGL trip this year so I have no idea when they will get them this year.

DebbieGetsTheJobDone · 11/03/2021 23:31

My local school orders them before Christmas!

RedcurrantPuff · 11/03/2021 23:34

Renfrewshire here too. Mine got them in Feb (different primary schools) so they could wear them as a school jumper, at their residentials (last one didn’t go ahead due to bloody Covid), the transition events at high school

Best to get them earlier so they can get more wear out of them, I think getting them in June is stupid.

JoanDarc · 11/03/2021 23:39

I’ve got a P7 in local authority primary in Renfrewshire. Got the hoodie prior to Christmas holidays, the other two local primaries I’m aware of had theirs before this.
I’ve not heard of any schools in recent years getting them on last day of term.

Glitteryone · 11/03/2021 23:46

I’m in NI and my DD is P7.

It’s normal to receive it in the final term, I believe.

Hippee · 11/03/2021 23:52

Our school usually has them after Easter, but this year they have them already. It's much better - at least they get some wear out of them.

Uggmugg · 12/03/2021 00:05

Our kids got them in December and wear them second half of the academic year. Made them feel special.

CoRhona · 12/03/2021 00:47

Primary - last week.

Secondary - last day so they don't get worn on site at all.

activitythree · 12/03/2021 00:59

Not much time to wear them then.

They don't expire on the last day of term.

SongSilkTrainspot · 12/03/2021 01:00

@Redglitter

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

I’m Renfrewshire, and I’ve seen 3 schools local to me wearing their “21” leavers hoodies already.

Last year my daughter received hers in May.

SongSilkTrainspot · 12/03/2021 01:00

My daughter still wears hers every.freaking.day

BritWifeinUSA · 12/03/2021 01:11

Is it a new thing? I left primary, secondary and university without seeing a single “leavers hoodie”.

Midlifephoenix · 12/03/2021 01:12

Our school doesn't do it at Y6 as most continue to the senior school but the Y11s will get them first week into summer term. They will end school May 28th, but they wouldn't be allowed to wear them to school anyway, as they must wear blazers. It's just another hoodie snd I expect she'll wear it during the summer and then she starts a new school so will only wear it occasionally.

rosiejaune · 12/03/2021 01:23

Why is this even a thing? Seems very wasteful and environmentally destructive to buy a load of non-organic cotton hoodies they don't actually need.

We used to just sign each other's shirts with marker pens on the last day of Year 6 in primary school, and Year 11 in secondary school. Since we wouldn't need them any longer anyway. I still have mine, and they are still legible.

LeviAckerman · 12/03/2021 01:32

My DC's school have them for the whole of P7.

dotoallasyouwouldbedoneby · 12/03/2021 02:35

The ones you order for leaving Senior State schools in Scotland (and which must make that company an obscene amount of money) are in my experience a complete waste.
Both of my DC ordered them and have worn them once at most. They look seriously uncool, once you have left school - even an old fogey like me can see that.
Also a bit ridiculous, given that you have your last school day before you even sit your exams and have to wear full uniform for the exams.

Laggartha · 12/03/2021 03:11

Is it a new thing? I left primary, secondary and university without seeing a single “leavers hoodie”

That was my first thought about the “traditional hoodie”.

JackieTheFart · 12/03/2021 04:06

I've never heard of the kids being able to wear them at school .

Mine left primary last year so unfortunately everything was delayed, but I don't think we were due to get them much before the end of summer term anyway.

wellthatsunusual · 12/03/2021 04:09

The schools in my area usually seem to do them around this time of year and then they wear them to school if they want to, instead of their usual school sweatshirt.

ThriceAsNaice · 12/03/2021 08:15

Last few weeks here too. It's a waste, for just a week or 2. Some DC did wear them casually over summer and beyond but for the majority they never see the light of day again after the last day at primary. Also here it's the parents that club together to order and supply them.

Soontobe60 · 12/03/2021 08:19

@reluctantbrit

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.

🤣🤣🤣 lobbied Its bloody primary school. I’m sure they were delighted to be lobbied by parents demanding their darlings be allowed to wear a hoody. In my school we don’t let them wear them in school at all because only half the children can afford to buy one. It’s some parent that has decided their child should have one and has organised it with other parents (who can afford to buy one)

IHaveBrilloHair · 12/03/2021 08:20

The whole of the last year.

Symbion · 12/03/2021 08:22

@BritWifeinUSA

Is it a new thing? I left primary, secondary and university without seeing a single “leavers hoodie”.

Yes fairly new. I never had one either but all the schools round here seem to do them. You see a lot of 11 year olds wearing them at weekends and my Y7 still lives in his.

Never heard of them at secondary or beyond but maybe that's because we haven't got to that stage yet.

RaspberryCoulis · 12/03/2021 08:26

I'm in Scotland too. Usually it's a group of parents who organise rather than the school so varies hugely. Our school didn't let the kids wear their hoodies in class so it was really just for out of school wear.

I helped organise ours last year, we put forms out just after Christmas with a view to getting orders, sizes, name spellings, colours (not easy) by mid-Feb and getting the hoodies out by Easter. As it happened with lockdown, we got them out the day school closed.

Knitterbabe · 12/03/2021 08:28

I often see local children wearing hoodies from years back, buy big and they will get plenty of wear out of them. Also laughing at the idea of the entire summer being too hot for a hoodie! We wish! We have spent entire fortnights at the seaside with the children in jumpers/hoodies the whole time.🙂

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