Do you have the same friends from primery school?

[Aveeno2017]

My daughter is in year 5 and has no real close friends! There are only 11 in her class and 7 of them are very clique. They are all into football and boys and drama..she likes Pokemon,Minecraft and Drawing! I worry about her not forming long lasting bonds..so would be interested to know how friendly you are with primery school friends.

None! None from secondary either.
My husband has one friend from primary, one from secondary and one from 6th form!

I met my best friend in primary school and we’re both still friends with another girl from primary, but most of my friends are from 6th form onwards.

Have moved around loads. Aside from Facebook “friends”, in terms of people I’ve actually made the effort to see in the past ten years, I have one contact from primary school, one from secondary, and one from sixth form college.

No. None from secondary, sixth form or uni either. Not one. I don't care at all, you change as you grow and find friends at different stages of your life.
This clique at primary is unlikely to still be intact by the end of year 7!

Yes, one! We're very close. My closest friends who I see the most are all from secondary school, and then a bunch from uni too. Then a few stragglers I've met from past jobs/through friends etc!

I was in a similar class in primary, only 6 girls so slim pickings for friends. She will find her people in secondary I'm sure

I've 1. We've been friends for 30 years.

I very close friend from primary, we’ve been friends since 8 years old, we are now 41.
I am in touch with a few others but mainly social media based as I moved away. Same with secondary. I didn’t make any friends at uni though.

Not from primary - I went to a different secondary school to everyone else. But yes from secondary, definitely.

Not in touch with any, nor secondary. Still in touch with sixth form friends and university

Two of my best friends are from Junior school, some from secondary and some from adult life.

All of my other friends are ones I meet as an adult.

I wouldnt worry about her too much. She's only little. My DD has found more close friends in secondary than primary.

I don't think it is a sex-based thing - I didn't have that many in my early life and most of my University friends with I stayed in touch with for a good long time but we did drift apart - we moved away and stopped doing a hobby we all did because we didn't enjoy it anymore.
Thing is, it dawned on us we put in all the effort contact wise and they didn't bother.
In my case there was a bit more drama but that was because I was their emotional toilet for so long that they didn't give a shit about me when I needed emotional support since I'm so strong and dependable. Can't say I've missed them that much as that's two fewer drains in my life.
So I have fewer, but better quality friends.

Thank you all for your replies.

I don't speak to anyone from primary school. I only have about 2-3 people from there on my facebook. The others have requested me but I don't see the point.

I'm not friends with my secondary school friends either!

I have people I was at primary school with that I will see at Christmas but that is because our parents were friends before primary school and are still friends now so we see each other via our parents. We are not independently in touch and I am not in touch with anyone else from primary or secondary school. All my friends are from university or made via hobbies in the years immediately after university with a few NCT acquaintances.

Yes, my 3 closest friends are from primary but 2 of them live in different parts of the country now so I only see them a couple of times a year.

I didn't go to college or university. I started working at 16 and have made some lifelong friends through work.

DS1 had a best-friend he was inseparable from in primary school, They went to the same secondary school and never spoke to each other again. No massive falling out, they just developed new friendships as they weren't in the same class. He didn't maintain any friendships from secondary either, but does still see his 6th form mates.

DS2 has maintained a friendship with 2 boys form his primary school, they are now all at different universities but meet up in the holidays.

I am still friends with one person from primary, but our mothers were (and still are) very good friends so that has helped.

None from primary, or secondary or from uni!

Dd sounds a bit like your dd and things did improve at secondary school.....I guess a bigger group of kids so more likely to find someone with common interests. Also when she was secondary school age she started playing on public minecraft servers and made some good friends there. I know there's risks but they all had mics and some sort of speech software so I could hear them all talking and were happy they were girls. They meet up loads now for stuff like comic cons and minecraft conventions. Dd is 18yo amd has been good friends with them since she was 11yo, obviously when she was younger I used to go to the comic cons as well.....even if dropping off at the door, etc.

Yes - I have 1 good friend from primary school and I still see a lot of people locally who I went to school with and would always say hi.

I have a group of friends from secondary school who I speak to regularly and see about once every 6 months.

I speak occasionally to people I went to uni with on Facebook.

I have a few closer friends from work that I speak to almost daily.

I have no friends from primary, none from secondary and although I made deep and lasting friend at uni I went to uni in the states and live in the uk so never see them.

My friends are just people I've met as an adult.

no-one from primary.
one from secondary kept in touch for years, now just Christams cards.
The friends I have kept hold of are university friends

ds and dd are both at secondary, and went with none of their primary schools friends. Their primary friends live locally, but they travel to secondary. They never see their primary friends at all!

I’m not in touch with anyone from my primary school. I have a couple of secondary school friends on Facebook but I’m not in touch with them beyond that, haven’t seen them face-to-face in years and don’t feel any desire to.

I do have a large group of friends from sixth form college and a group from university.

Yeah my two closest friends have been my friends since reception.

No, my last primary school friend & I fell out when we were in our late teens, the others drifted away before that as apart from above friend we were in different forms in secondary school.

No, not one!