About year 6 leavers hoodies

[Readyforthelaunch]

Dd is in year 6 and one of the parents very kindly organised leavers hoodies for the whole of year 6.

I had two older children that attended a different school and in their case, their school organised the hoodies and the children were allowed to wear them for the last half term (after SATS).

DD’s school have said no. They’ve even gone as far as to say that any children wearing the hoodies will have them confiscated. The school have said that the children can wear them on the last day only.

I’m very surprised as the school is actually quite lax when it comes to enforcing uniform rules generally.

The year 6 parents are not happy.

Aibu to think that the children should be allowed to wear their leavers hoodies now?

Mine all had them and they only could wear them on the last day and that’s when they received them however these were organised by the school PTA.

Personally I don’t see the problem in school implementing their rules. Also my kids wore theirs for a long time after they left and still have them and they have either left schooling or are in their GCSE years.

Let's be realistic...

• It is June so kids wearing hoodies in warmer weather is pointless.
• Y6 kids stink to high heaven...the smell is awful by the end of the day. Worse if they have been wearing jumpers in hot weather!
• They only have 1 so it will either need washing daily or not get washed at all which means more sweaty, smelly classrooms.
• Nothing stopping them wearing it outside of school.
• Parents do not get to choose the school rules.

@Readyforthelaunch at my kids school, they used to have a red sweattshirt for P7, rest of school navy sweatshirt, then they srated doing the leavers hoodie, so it was red and their school uniform for the last year, why have a leavers hoody they cant wear to achool. Mine dodntvreally wear their after they left primary. Very draconian they cant wear hoodies to school.

YANBU. Your school is being a bit miserable OP and so are some posters.
It made me laugh thinking about young people having problems in work because they were or were not allowed to wear leavers hoodies in primary school 😂

We were lucky because in my kids' school the leavers hoodies were organised and paid for by the PTA. They gave them out and took pictures of them all and the kids loved them. They were allowed to wear them instead of a school jumper for the last half term.

My school is allowing them for the first time this year. I think it’s great. They won’t ever wear them again once they start seniors and it’s great to make them feel extra special at the end of year 6.

I mean, surely the fact that the school wasn't organising hoodies was a fairly clear indication that they didn't want the kids to wear them?

I don't think you have a case for getting pissed off that a school doesn't want kids wearing a non-uniform item that a parent took it upon themselves to purchase, and which the school had nothing to do with. I don't really see why you'd expect the school to say yes to wearing them at school after it was made clear to the parents that leavers' hoodies aren't something the school was choosing to do that year.

All the dc got them oversized and wore for years afterwards. DS 15 and six foot still wears his.

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

They are all wearing PE hoodies.

Furthermore a lot of children don’t seem to bother wearing uniform at all and wear tracksuits, more reason why the parents are all so annoyed because anything goes. Children even wear crocs to school.

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

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.

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!

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.

That’s true and like I say I wasn’t the organiser, however I was/am surprised that the school didn’t organise the hoodies because they seem to do so many paid for extras and are generally extremely lax about uniform.

We all thought it was just an admin/organising thing rather than school being against them being worn.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

You haven’t even read any of my updates.

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?

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)

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.

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.