Year 6 leavers hoodies

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I think I’ve managed to volunteer to help organise this 😶

Have some companies in mind that have supplied the school before.

Would really welcome any tips please from anyone who has helped organise these in the past? One of the school office staff suggested having a few parents coordinate this, is this going to be really complicated/am I going to regret it?!

Use a company with an online shop. All
you need to do is set it up forward to details
to parents.

In fact, charge enough for the hoodies so that you can provide a few at low cost/ free for kids whose families can’t afford one.

We asked the supplier for some samples of different sizes, then stood outside the school a few mornings and pick ups so the kids could try them on. Then one of the muns set up a Google forms thing for orders which we sent out via the class WhatsApp groups. On the form we had a check box for free school meals, so we knew that the PTA would cover that hoodie cost. We had a spreadsheet for sizes, names to go in the number, and names/nicknames on the back.

DS got one at the end of Year 13 and was wearing it in a picture he sent from some pub yesterday. DS aged 21 also wears his sometimes!

I organise ours at school.

1. Get the legal name of every child in the class.
2. check if the company can embroider initials on the front (we do and it makes it so easy to reunite the owner with the hoodie)
3. make a form. Legal name, initials and hoodie size
4. order from your preferred supplier

i can message you who we use. I fine them extremely competitive.

Our pta pay for ours. We ask £5 voluntary contribution and every child in class gets one. I pick up the sample sizes and the y6 teacher decides the size to get as the kids have a try on session in class. She is sensible with it as a parent herself so knows to leave growing room etc.

she then double checks the names with the kids before i order them.

our school only gets the same style and colour hoodie and it becomes part of the uniform. We will have ours delivered in the next few weeks which is late as we originally wanted them for Christmas but life got in the way.

From this thread:

1. Don't agree to measure them - if a child grows or you get it wrong, you're then to blame. Give sizes for parents to choose
2. Don't charge extra to cover children who can't afford - ask the PTA if they can run to a few. Putting that extra charge may take it into not affordable for other children, especially if you have twins etc in the year.
3. Don't give options on colours. School colour is the normal one round here, with occasionally a second colour offered. It's only another thing to go wrong or child change their mind and get upset because all their friends are a different colour.
4. Check with the school if they normally have registered name or allow nicknames, and how they do that (one of my dc's year they back tracked as the children got obsessed with choosing nicknames they'd never used before)
5. See if the company will do initials on the front (my leaver's jumper's been pinched...)

I'd get the design done then send it either to the classes or even home to parents to ask to check that the spelling is right. It's really easy when you're working on that size not to notice that you've spelt Tammy as Tommy or worse. Put the responsibility on the children/parents to check.

And don't think of it as being a landfill waste of time. It's quite common to see children round here wearing them a couple of years later. Ds still wore his in year 10... until he grew and couldn't squeeze it on.

I’ve asked PTA if they’d be able to contribute if someone can’t afford it. I won’t be asking other parents to sub.

Fair point about the nicknames vs legal name. Will have to make sure that class list goes out with the general email.

I won’t be measuring anyone’s child and the school definitely wouldn’t allow it.

In contact with a couple of companies now and will definitely go with the option of parent paying / ordering directly if we can.

There is the option of initials on the front or full name on the back. Thoughts??

Full name on back is what we do, with initials embroidered on breast pocket area.

Our class reps are using teamhoodies and they’ve been brilliant so far apparently. They can either set up an online shop where the individual families pick size, colour and optional sleeve name and pay as they order, or you can get everyone to select their choices individually on the website and the company invoice the school/PTA/individual who has collected the money. The reps have set up a deadline that means the tops will be delivered before a big trip in April.

Our school don’t provide class lists, only the number of children, so we had to work out the names. We then asked on the parents’ what’s app group for a email address of a parent/guardian and then emailed to let them know the process and for them to confirm the child’s name (good for checking the spelling!). Good luck!

No. Schools already have way to much to do than have to help organise Leaver’s Hoodies!

Ok, not every child’s names will be on the back then.

This thread just shows you can’t please everyone I guess.

Yeah I’ve seen them on older kids round here, I think my yr 9 would still wear hers around the house if it fitted, she did choose light grey though.
my year 7 wears hers still.

if they wanted to wear in school as part of uniform, they had a choice to order early in two colours only. If you wanted to pick one of many other colours, then it could be worn as outer wear but off in the classroom, but worn as part of uniform from after Easter