Anyone moved their child school- advice desperately needed please?

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Moved dd (year 1) at Easter to new school. Settled in well. I was warned (on here actually!) to anticipate she would be flavour of the month but this would waned.
This is happening now! Summer break coming up- she’s been dropped by her ‘bff’, can be alone at lunch And hasn’t been invited to a couple of parties in the last week.
What can I do to help?
I’m planning play dates over the holidays.
Is this a stage all new kids go through?!

Yes. Don't panic. Did you have a hard time at school yourself? She's very young yet and from my own experience with two DD's, it's very up and down and at this young age, many children have working parents who have to put them into holiday care...so playdates can be a bit thin on the ground...and then people also go on holiday.

In year 1, bffs are to be discouraged for the simple reason that they often go wrong.

Encourage her to have lots of friends and play with plenty of children.

By the age of 10 they will be choosing their own friends and soon arrange their own meetings.

Thank you!
No quite the opposite sadly I was a bit of a bully obviously feel awful now.

I was too OP...I was too. It's sad but I bullied due to being bullied at home.

Speak to her teacher just to settle your mind...about the being alone at lunch thing. They usually help them. Invite kids over when you can....keep it varied.

Thank you I think I will have a quick chat tomorrow with her seems daft so close to summer but I don’t want dd’s freshest thought of school being negative and that playing on her mind during the break iyswim

DD wasn't invited to many parties as she didn't have just one or two best friends, she played with loads of people. What helped lots was doing after school clubs where she met likeminded children and they had something in common (aka the club activity). Might be worth doing that if school run clubs.

Also, we got DD into Brownies so she also had friends outside of school. Allows her to weather any classroom storms with other friends.

Oh and don't give into the temptation to quiz her about who she played with etc. I remember my Mum doing that bless her and I KNEW there was a "right" answer but at 6 couldn't for the life of me figure it out....by 3.00 I'd forgotten who I'd played with anyway!