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phleb | 20:43 Tue 17th Nov 2015 | ChatterBank
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Just out of curiosity, why do parents hire limousines for their kids etc when the last day of year 6? Is that when they have a prom? I was asked today what i will be doing for my child? I wasn't sure what to say.
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In those parts of the country where the traditional infant/junior/secondary (or primary/secondary) system of education is in use, Year 6 is the final year of junior/primary school. (In other parts of the country, where the first/middle/secondary system is in use, pupils don't transfer to secondary school until they've completed either Year 7 or Year 8).

So it's presumably part of some sort of school-leaving event, which sounds horribly like the American 'prom' to me.
Strange question Ask the teacher what is being arranged re the Prom. A limo is not essential -seems very 'chavvie' to me.
Not a strange question, I wouldn't have had a clue, phleb, I didn't know things had got that silly.
Nothing is more puke-wrenching than seeing 7 year olds dressed in tatty paper/plastic gowns and mortar boards celebrating their transition to 'Big School'.
Its strange in that the OP could have just asked at the school gates what was happening instead of posting on a forum that has no idea what her school is doing.
Jackdaw -yes something is more puke making -its seeing 11 year old girls in full make up looking like little tramps, while their parents get themselves into debt renting limo's and photographers trying to out do one another when they can ill afford it. Having said that - for the most of them it will be the only graduation they ever get to attend.
Phleb, just do what you can afford to do. It's so tricky not making your child stand out from the others but you don't want to bankrupt yourself. I think year 11 proms are bad enough but year 6?
Miaow Retro.
I just think its very" common". Graduation is for high school and uni not primary school.
Retro - respect! I would not have dared say that on here.
Er...maybe the OP wanted other parents opinions...without having to ask those in her child's school.

Not quite the same,but lil pasta was invited to a birthday party where the birthday girls parents hired a limo. This was about 19-20 years ago...here in the UK...we'd never seen it in the States.



It was your reference to 'the only graduation they will attend' that got the miaow. I don't like proms, etc but it's what they do now - it's just a party although I have seen things about kids graduating nursery which is just ridiculous.
If you see pictures of students graduating from a 'proper' university, rather than an ex poly, you will notice that they don't wear mortar boards. That's how you tell the difference.
Slightly OT. A class of infant school kids passed me in town today. They were making such an excited racket it made me laugh out loud. Something very uplifting about that display of natural joie de vivre, I reckon.
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I still chuckle about the first Leavers Do we held, at a hotel 20 miles away, deliberately chosen for its distance, and all the pupils were travelling by coach. One lad was banned because of his repeated poor behaviour but he turned up outside the school, dressed up, and his mother lay in front of the bus to stop it going! No shortage of volunteers among the staff to drive the coach.
Phleb , most schools these days have a web site or at least a newsletter - check what type of party it is . Formal or just a Disco style then child can dress accordingly and just use whatever transport you normally would.
We had a school disco at the end of each term.
Another idiotic American import.

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