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.

Two friends from Primary School, we were all 76yrs old in May, our mums were in the same ward when we were born in 1943.

There were 4 people in my year at primary school. One died some time ago and the other 2 live miles away.

I have one, my first 'best friend' from primary who is still one of my closest friends now. Can't imagine my life without her, she's just always been part of it!
I have one other good friend from secondary, but everyone else I met later in my life.

I'm still friends with my bestie from primary school. Amazing really, since we have both moved around a lot.

I am in touch with a couple of friends I met in primary and continued into secondary together. But I agree that everything changes at secondary anyway. My daughter went to secondary with her best friend from primary and they are now at the end of year 8 not really friends anymore. I'm sadder about it than she is, she says they've just grown apart.

I had 2 best friends in high school, one went to another high school so only saw her when I played the school for football, another was my bestest friend he went to a different high school but our parents were friends and we went to scouts together so I saw him more, we lost touch when I moved town and reconciled but now he’s moved to Australia. Last time I saw him was 7 years ago now when I was pregnant with dd. I did see my other friend at hospital when I was pregnant with DS 12 yearsago, she was due a few months before me. I’ve heard from mutual friends she had a rough time of it a while back and non of the old lot see her anymore. I’m in contact with a few on Facebook. But as I live far away now it’s hard to catch up .

Not at all, we moved when I was 7 and again when I was 11, so my oldest friends are from secondary school.

DS had a few best friends, 2 left and 2 were put in other class and the 2 that were left with him have grown apart from him. He has ASD and it’s harder for him. It was hard to see his 2 ex best friends in a picture with their leavers hoodies together without him, he had a meltdown caused by another student back at Easter and since then they’ve kept thier distance, I’m more pissed off than he is, he couldn’t care less. He’s got 2 girlfriends one who’s he’s been in every class with since nursery. And 2 of the kids from his class will be in his SEN group with him at high school, they get on fairly well, a few hiccups here or there but generally work very well together. I’m hoping he reunites with one of his best friends from the other class at high school. Our neighbours dd is going aswell and they get on well when she’s not bossing him around 😂

Quite some varied answers you have here.

I have one primary school friend that I'm still friends with. None from secondary or college. All my mates now are from first jobs onwards.

Wouldn't worry OP. Primary school friendships groups don't seem to last much past year 7.

I went to primary school with my three best friends. We were always friends but we all had other "best friends" when we were little and other friendship groups that sort of overlapped at secondary - we actually got closer again over drinking in the same pub later on though.

I also have two very good friends from uni, two from my last job, a group from my current job, many from hobby, some from pub... I don't rely on primary school friends.

Two from nursery school. And quite a few from junior and senior school. University not so many, I went to university nearby to where I grew up so friends there came from elsewhere and scattered far and wide when we finished. Still friends with the kids in the street I grew up in though.

None from school at all . My best friends are from university, work and general life. One is my husband’s best friend’s wife .

One of my favourite people ever is my job share partner who is 11 years younger than me . I count her as one of my best fiends now .

• friends not fiends

My daughter had a good friend who left at the end of year 4 she really got on with his older sister too. Year 5 has been pretty rough for her all the other girls are into football and drama where she likes writing and imaginative games!! There seems to be one girl who seems to like to get the other girls not to talk to my daughter. I'm just hoping she meets some good friends in secondary school.

Hell no, not from any school & having had some social media contact with a few of them, as lovely as I'm sure they are, we have feck all in common & I'd be considered a "stuck up snob" for leaving the area I was born in & having a decent career as I've seen others referred to.

A few from art school & several from my first solo business venture who I've been close to for over 30 years & even though we're now scattered around the country, I know they'd still have my back & be there for me, as I would/have done for them.

DD has been the same through primary school & high school too. She does have friends, but whether they'll go the distance or not I don't know as others certainly haven't.

I just reassure her that she is growing into who she is meant to be & will find her tribe when the time is right

Not really. We moved away. When I go back to visit family I may have a quick ‘how are you?’ Chat in the street but that’s it.

My DS is the same as your DD. He likes Pokemon, Zelda, Minecraft etc. The boys in his class just want to play football or fight with each other. He has no friends and it makes me very sad... Luckily he goes to extra curricular groups and has friends there.

I have one friend from school full stop, we went through primary and secondary together.

Only as FB friends these days really. Much closer to some from secondary.

My daughter is probably going to be the only child from her school going to the secondary school she likes best. I like to think she won't lose touch too much but then I was in a similar position and it hasn't been a problem.

I am still friends with girls I met in school. My best friend I've known since nursery school, a few from primary and the rest from secondary school. We still have weekends away, nights out and holidaying with kids. I do have other friends also but I'm closest to my oldest friends.

No. Not from secondary either.

Have a good circle of friends from my year out. Not necessarily the ones I worked with, but those that were part of the organisation before and after me as well. I would say these are the 'forever' friends.

Uni friends stuck for many years, but now I don't really see any of them except DH.

Have a lot of friends from the last 12 years of child-rearing/toddler groups/nursery/school.