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?

Same at our school in regards to uniform, some kids come in wearing whatever they want. Tracksuits, multicoloured trainers, white fox hoodies - it’s ridiculous!
Makes the school look so untidy.

They are only wasteful if they don’t get worn after whatever they were printed to commemorate, @Readyforthelaunch. As I said earlier, my dses wore their senior school leavers’ hoodies for ages after they’d left school, and I saw plenty of other kids wearing their leavers’ hoodies.

On a national level it is a lot of landfill if the vast majority of kids in a couple of year groups are buying a school crested hoody - and let's say 50% don't wear them beyond one day.

I thought we were teaching our kids to care more about the environment than this.

I have read this thread and people saying their kids have worn them for years. My guess is it will be a minority that would choose to wear a sweater emblazoned with their school and name outside of school but a survey (a year after getting them or something) would be interesting to see if the majority are wasted or used.

I am with the school on that.

Children walking around with their names and school logo printed on them is a major problem in terms of safety (in my humble opinion).

I am almost a bit uneasy with the normal school uniform having a school logo on them.... It is almost advertising the location of a child + the timelines of entry exit times.. That's why I take it off when we are outside school (if we go to a park after school for example).... And I would probably won't buy them it going forward, just plain ones .....

I haven't read all comments, I am sure I am not the only one who think this could be a problem .... Perhaps I am paranoid but better be safe than sorry !!

Our school order them (paid for by parents) and won’t let any child wear them until the last day. Pretty unfair imo.

I don’t get the ‘non uniform’ thing. They are part of the uniform for our Yr6s. Extra uniform, if you like, but not non uniform. I haven’t noticed them making Yr 6 any more badly behaved than Yr6 normally are, in any of the schools I’ve worked in. Maybe that is because we don’t limit them to the last day/week of term. But our parents work with the school and agree on the same color as the school jumper, plus we provide the logo for the company to embroider.

This sounds more like year 6 has an extra item of uniform which is a hoody rather than a "leavers hoody". I say that because it's school colour and worn for the year. I doubt they choose to wear that after finishing do they?

Agree - couldn’t be bothered to mention it on my previous posts but we asked the organisers not to emblazon the child’s name across the back and just to have all the names within the numbers.

I would assume leavers hoodies are a last day only thing. At DCs primary they got the hoodies and yearbooks sometime in the last week. Seems a bit odd to wear them as a school uniform replacement.

I didn’t even know wearing leavers hoodies instead of school uniform was a thing! At our school they were collected before Christmas, the kids got lots of use out of them that year and the next but only wore them in school for non-uniform days, if they wanted to.
Last day of term it was hot and all about signing each other’s shirts, no one would want to wear a hoodie anyway.

I've still got this to come but I would be totally unsurprised if my kids' school only allowed leavers' hoodies on the last day, it seems completely fair enough. Parents don't get to dictate what the rules are re uniform just because they're being nice, and it's not like the hoodies vanish in a puff of smoke at 3.15 on the last day - I see them being worn outside of school all the time.

Our leavers hoodies are organised by our parent council, they are ordered within the first 3 weeks of primary 7 so the kids have them by october, they are black with the names inside the number and a nickname on them (or name its kids choice) and a logo on the front chosen by the year group. They then form part of the uniform, there is a second opportunity to order in January. The kids love them and they are really popular every year and make our p7s stand out in the school and be more obvious.
I dont understand schools that dont hand them out till end of school year as kids wont get any wear out of them then.

Most official school suppliers charge more than you could find elsewhere ime

I think the issue here is that the school has had no input regarding the hoodies. A parent has organised the hoodies for the Year 6 children, contacted all the parents and made sure each child received their order. It's not actually anything to do with the school as such, so they aren't obliged to allow children to wear them.

Yes, it's mean but the school have chosen not to be involved, and have made a decision. There's little that anyone can do, to force their hand...the hoodies isn't part of the uniform.

Personally, I think the hoodies are a waste of money. The children wear them for a short period of time, the novelty wears off, or they grow out if them, and they're stuffed in a drawer, never to see the light of day again!!

It became part of the uniform in P7 and then again in 6th year at high school.

Means we got our moneys worth.

My daughter’s school only allowed them to be worn on the last day but I sized up when I ordered and she still wears it round the house and stuff.
its nice for them to have as a keepsake

Its a big deal to the children and parents who ordered one

Really? Why on earth do the parents care one way or the other?

All the children wear PE hoodies every day anyway

I also can’t see why the school really care about this either if the uniform is hoodies anyway (but then I can never understand schools’ obsession with uniform).

Basically I can’t understand why any adult involved in this has more than a passing interest. But I also don’t know why anyone would assume the school would change their uniform policy for some hoodies a parent arranged.

It is their input if they asked they say ‘okay’. The school is very much involved then. They might tell themselves they aren’t, but they are.
They have sanctioned the whole thing. And given it a legitimate authority by doing so.

In our school its the PTA that organise and pay for the hoodies for the Y6 every year. They are then presented to the children in a special assembly that parents can also attend. My son is Y6 this year and their teacher gave a lovely speech about how proud she was of all of them for working so hard towards their SATS, it was a lovely occasion. They can wear them for the rest of year. They are in the school colour so fit in with the rest of the uniform.

Well, it says [Year] [School Name] Leavers and has all their names on, so that’s a Leaver’s Hoodie imo. Some of them wear it after July, some don’t. At least by letting them wear it from May onwards they are getting some wear out of it.

Our primary had leavers hoodies and they were only allowed to wear them on the last day. The PTA did arrange for them to be delivered before the residential though so they all took them there.

No one questioned the schools decision, it’s the way it’s always been around here.

These are the biggest waste of money and material. Worn twice and disregarded because what do you know once those kids go to secondary they grow up. They’d be much better with a free class photo album of every year from start to finish. Easier to store and easier to keep that a hoodie.

A surprising amount of people are struggling with the idea that different schools may do things differently. And that a parent deciding something might be fun doesn't trump school rules. Essentially it's 'Thank Christ I Don't Work In Education And Have To Deal With Parents' episode no. 8,463.

The parents care because they’ve bought the hoodies and it would have been a nice thing for the children to be able to wear them for the final weeks.

Yes perhaps the parents shouldn’t have assumed they’d be allowed, but given that it’s fairly common for schools to allow leavers hoodies and given that our school are very laid back about uniform in general, parents did think it would be allowed.

Our school are completely lax about uniform with children wearing tracksuits, trainers, crocs. They do more non uniform and dress up days than I’ve ever known, and they are ok with sweets for birthdays and anything goes in lunchboxes. I have never known the school to care about this sort of thing.