Mid September birthday

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My DD turns 5 mid September
She keeps asking about her '5 year party'

She's the youngest of my little mum friends kids and they all have there parties coming up.

Because she's a September baby, she missed out on attending school at the same time.
She will start her new school on the 3rd September.

If I were to throw a party for her, I would need to hand the invites out by the 10th at the latest.

Meaning the children would have known each other a week.

As a parent... if your child came home in that first week with an invite what would you think???

I don't know if I'm overthinking but can imagine lots of angry parents thinking it's ridiculous

I thought maybe if I sent a class invite saying I know it's early, please feel free to completely disregard this invite or use it as an opportunity for all the kids to mix

Please know there is no obligation to come/bring a gift. I just want her to have the opportunity for a party with new friends.

Then if I hire a hall and no one comes she will have a few people there she's friends with now... and if they turn up great.

What would you do??
I just don't want to make her miss out just because she was born in September!

Thanks

There are 3 children in my eldest's class that have birthdays in the first week of September. When they started reception we had 2 whole class invites in the first week and 1 before the summer holidays (that was for a child that went to the school nursery, but I believe the parent asked the reception teacher to let the parents of the children who would be new in September know the info).

I didn't find it odd at all 🤷🏻‍♀️

My daughter is an October baby but I handed out her 5th party invites on the 11th September last year the day they started full time (they had a couple of settling in sessions) we invited the full class and had about four that didn’t respond/didn’t show.

just send a normal invite, you don’t need to put anything else other than what you would for a standard party invite

One of DS' classmates had a whole class party within a couple of weeks of them starting reception. It worked pretty well and most of the class turned up. It was also a good chance to get to know some of the other parents at a relatively early stage too.

My son was 5 on 13th and we invited his nursery friends.. no one from school as he knew no one really by that point! He’d only gone half days for a week or so. We didn’t hire a hall we did a climbing activity so less kids.

It would work really well. Make sure you invite the whole class and use it as a chance to meet the other new parents

We have similar and I've decided to invite nursery and other friends this year then a class party next year as we only have 30 spaces. If you aren't restricted on numbers then it absolutely makes sense especially if you can still invite all of her other friends.

My oldest is a September baby and we did a whole class party that year. I thought it would be a great way to get to know everyone!

I had similar but I was moving into the area and had to have the invitations handed out before we even got there… it was a great chance to meet people and everyone turned up!

Oh wow you’re hugely overthinking. Why would someone be mad their kid’s been invited to a party? Just hand 30 or so invites to the teacher, she’ll put them in book bags and the party will be a nice way to chat to all the parents etc.

Yeahhhh I thought I might be!! Thank you for being blunt haha

This is what I was thinking, thank you 😊

I'm exactly mid September and it wasn't ever an issue.

Thank you... think it's safe to say I'm overthinking!!

My DD started school a week before her 5th birthday. We had her nursery school and other friends and didn’t worry about a party for school friends until the following year.

Both my dc are September babies! And for both of them we just threw ourselves into a whole class party in reception - they were both really well attended because most parents are keen for their kids and themselves to make friends with their class asap.

My youngest is an early September baby, I didn’t do a party for reception because nobody knows each other they’ll be so tired from being in school all week and I promised my little guy a year 1 party instead! Can you do a family party instead?

Whole class parties in reception are commonplace round here. You could just be the first; great op to meet parents etc.

If there is a class WhatsApp group up n running before term starts, post details there to give ppl heads up of arrangements then give invites out via teacher on 1st day of term.

Alternatively they'll be taster sessions before school starts in June or July; could get the invites out them if organised?

I'd think great!