Year 1 birthday parties - do all invitations have to be reciprocal?

[Rainallnight]

DD’s birthday is towards the end of the school year. So far this year, she’s been at 10 classmates’ parties and that will obviously rise as we go through the year.

Is it the done thing to invite all the people whose parties she went to? I’m assuming so, it’s just going to be a lot!

Depends . If they are inviting the whole class but you’re doing a small party then you wouldn’t be expected to invite everyone .If they are having small parties then I think you should invite back .

Thank you. No one tends to do whole class parties so they’ve all been smaller

No, I wouldn't say so. If you are doing a small party then you can't invite everyone you has had the dc to a whole class party.

No, I wouldn’t obviously leave one of a friendship group out but otherwise invite who she wants if not full class/all girls type

And otherwise the children who can’t have parties for whatever reason will never be invited to a party

Well dd had a party last Sept & asked the whole class... There's been parties since & she hasn't been invited to some.. She was a bit disappointed to hear kids talking about the parties & not being invited herself but I guess it's a like lesson like everything else!

Class parties are pretty common until year 3 / KS2 when it starts to be more selective

We tend to invite 10/ whatever the minimum number is. Some of the 10 may not have a party themselves, some that aren’t part of the 10 may have invited dc to theirs. But, it’s DC’s birthday and they invite who they are closest to at the time. They may have grown apart from whoever invited them in September by the time June comes around.

There has been a real mix in our year 1 class. Lots of all class parties and quite a few smaller ones. For ours, we’ll invite all the girls and then 3-4 of the boys my daughter likes. She really doesn’t want a full class party. Our class is quite tricky as not many girls so it either needs to be all of them or a max of say 8 to avoid some feeling excluded.