What did your Primary school do for Year 6 leavers?

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I keep seeing lots of social media posts of very outlandish events for year 6 leavers. Proms, parties on their last day etc
My DC aren't in year 6 yet but from what I Dan tell their school didn't do very much at all.
Just wondering what the norm is?

Forgot - cathedral service in guildford and local church thing where presented with a bible

And another outdoor religious play thing that was offsite organised by the church

For my oldest, they did a leavers assembly and show, organised hoodies (worn for the last couple of weeks, then never again!), had a party with pizza/McDonald’s and a theme park trip. Parents organised a party on the Friday evening in a local hotel.

My youngest left in 2020 so covid got in the way. She was quite happy to not be at school for months though. 😅

Our school did a Y6 leavers play, a balloon arch graduation with them walking through the school gates and a prom. Large two form entry primary.

We had a lovely party last night organised by parents - hotdogs, disco, photo booth and a sunset group photo. Tickets were about £7 each and we made sure everyone could come even if they couldn't afford it.
The school had a leavers assembly, Y6 production, hoodies from Easter and the PTA paid for leavers keepsake books.
It was all really nice, fitting and not over the top.

My dc has just finished year 6. I arranged leavers hoodies and parents paid. The school put on a leavers ceremony. Another parent organised a venue in town, where the kids had food, photo booth, and disco on the evening of their last school day.Parents paid. Their teachers called in as well. Their teacher got them pizza delivered on the last but one day. They spent their last school day at the beach! Sounds much better than when I was in year 6, that's for sure.

Ours had a leavers disco, a Graduoke (like a music video thing) which parents paid for, a leavers assembly and then a water fight in a local park which is a school tradition.

Plus the year 6 classes do a tug of war at the school fete.

School play, leavers church service, watertight and disco organised by school.
Swimming trip, yearbook and hoodies organised by parents.

The school dont organise anything at all except for usual leavers event such as assembly and Mass.

Parents always organise a prom tho (or have done for at least the last 5 years) One of the mums usually starts a WhatsApp group about it in Feb/March time and takes charge. We all just paid money to her and offered help as appropriate.

Hoodies arranged by PTA
Enterprise project at the school fete
Production
Week-long residential trip
Leavers' assembly
BBQ
Shirt-signing

Parents organise a disco outside school time.

We had:

• Leavers assembly/performance - organised and planned by Yr 6 teachers
• Prom/disco - organised and planned mainly by support staff (TAs and office), donations made by local businesses and parents to fund, supported by staff who donated their time
• Leavers hoodies - organised by school office and paid for by parents
• Year books - provided by the photography company that takes class photos and funded by donations

Previous years we've had (attendance reward) pizza parties and water fights, but unfortunately attendance from this cohort fell short in the last half term basically after SAT's were over and the weather was awful for water fights...

Hoodies
Loads of exciting stuff post SATs
Production
Trips
Residential
Water fight
Cinema trip
Leavers festival
Leavers assembly
Learnt loads of new skills

We are a 4 form entry urban school. So some stuff wouldn't work in a tiny rural School etc

School organised: play and leavers service at the church, with hoodie although paid for by parents

Parents organised: slip and slide on school field with snacks then off to the beach, helps that is only 10 minutes away.

had a (very) extended assembly with prizes given out not to everyone but for all the usual things.

Made a hoodie that we had to pay for.

That was it.

(Independent school that goes from foundation years right through).

One family ran their own disco in their garden ostensibly for the school leavers but it was invitation only. (DS was not invited - he and we were thankful for that!!).

A day out of sports and activities against other schools in year 6. Small fee paid as they had to get a boat across to the event. Sounds luxury but it's local grounds to us 5 mins over crossing.
Adrenaline (trampolining) nothing to pay
Leavers hoody - parents paid
Memory scrapbook that the children made which was lovely of all their pictures from school including when they went in year 5 on activity camp for a few days, and pictures they took at end of year with friends that were printed on paper.
Last day they went afterschool to a local park to play and picnic

Year 6 production, theme park trip and activity centre trip both in last week of school. Leavers t-shirts, leavers assembly, could take in a t-shirt to be signed by teachers and classmates, leavers party followed by disco and cardboard box sleepover at school. My DS has had a lovely couple of weeks!

They had an outdoor activity day, church service, leavers assembly play etc in school.

Parties, hoodies and year books, little award ceremony and teachers gifts etc etc all organised by the year six parents. School and PTA not involved in that. Not sure why they would be.

Leavers Assembly, evening party (in the school hall, not a paid for thing) and a big water fight on the playground.