Reception class

[ByZippyBlueCrow]

I am having a mini melt down about the choice of school for my twins.
its essentially a lovely one form entry school and my son already attends in year 2.
i went for a meet day for new starters and there is a disproportionate number of boys to girls (12/18). The boys parents looked lovely but a couple of the girls parents couldn’t speak English. I’ve started to panic (had a panic attack). I’m so worried that my girl twin (girl/boy) will be disadvantaged, not be able to make good friendships and connections. She is already quite shy and nervous. I’m contemplating moving them all but also seems quite a knee jerk reaction. Do I let them do reception and see how it goes or jump now?

They will be fine. That isn't a particularly imbalanced class and just because some of the parents don't speak English it won't make any difference to your daughter making friends. I think you're being rather dramatic about it and, frankly you sound a bit ridiculous.

Honestly?
The language barrier will be broken down FAST especially at that age!!!

We currently live in the US and at the start of this year, two girls joined my DD’s class and didn’t speak English at all, only Spanish. For the first few months, they muddled along but managed to communicate easily with the English-speaking kids just through play and gestures 🤷🏻‍♀️
My DD has become good friends with one of them, who now speaks enough conversational English to get by, and as a result, my DD now speaks pretty impressive Spanish for a kid who’s never learned it formally!

That doesn’t sound imbalance at all! When my DD started she was in a class of 20 boys and 4 girls!

she’ll fine I’m sure, she’ll make friends with boys and girls

That's not a huge difference and they generally all play with each other at that age.

Christ what a total overreaction. So what if a couple of parents don't speak English? Why would that impact your daughters experience?

My DD is in Y6. Her class is 19 boys and 11 girls, the girls are all friendly with each other because they sort of banded together early on! They also mixed the classes in Y4 so she's friendly with the girls in the other class too (similar boy/girl split).

DS is in Y2 and his class is more even for boys/girls I think, but it's made no difference so far either.

And I'd say 80% of the parents in their school are ESL, some speaking very little English at all. It's never been an issue. I don't interact much with the other parents but both DC have made plenty of friends, despite both being quite shy!