DS1 (4) is starting reception next week. He birthday is the first week in October and he really wants a party. He doesn't know anyone going to his new school, although the majority of his class will already know each other from attending the attached preschool.
He wont really have time to get to know people before we have to organise and send out invites, so I was thinking of doing a whole class party.
The local leisure centre does parties, we've been there before and it's good and affordable. However, their party room has a max capacity of 25 children. His new class will be 30 children and there are about 5 others he wants to invite from his old preschool.
How many children usually actually turn up to a while class party? Can we risk it? It'll probably be one of the first of the year so I don't know what to expect.
I feel simultaneously stressed that either too many people will come or that nobody at all will show up!