Year 3 girls - tell me about your experiences

[thinneratforty]

It seems to be a minefield, is this normal? Breaking friends, making friends, lying about each other's behaviour, coming home from school crying. Please tell me it gets better.

I teach them. It is a minefield! Year 4 seems much the same.......as does year 5 and 6! Sorry!

Perfectly normal in my experience. Listening and making light of all the small issues whilst watching out for potentially bigger issues is a good approach.

What would you suggest though? Her best friend (friends since reception) is refusing to play with her. Her other friend is going to be leaving soon to move to another school. And her other friend (boy) seems to be bullied by older kids. I'm so worried, she seemed so upset. She is dd aged seven, nearly eight.
I tried stressing that it's a time of change for everyone and they'll all be making new friends at this time. Not sure it helped.

Well ds in in yr3, recently he got into trouble for thumping a girl who has been trying to kiss him, apparently she'd been chasing him around trying to kiss when that didnt work, she kissed her own hand and tried to wipe her wet hand on his face! Apart from that...the yr3 girls as a group have a game where they all chase after one boy, once they catch one they pin him down and all try to kiss him, the boys now all walk around in groups, as soon as they see the girl squad approaching they all scatter and run for the hills

They all seem obsessed with lynching and kissing

blimey. dd is in Y3 and had no problems.

Yup, dd is in yr 3 and has had some of this - tho tbh they have had the same on and off since year 1. Girls.... Her teacher is on the ball for anything happening in school but out of school I keep an eye on her and listen to her. She has to get used to all kinds of people, and girls can be unkind to each other. Think it may continue for a while!!

dd2 must be completely immune/ dd1 had a few issues at the time (a sort of pack thing) but dd2 nowt. she keeps herself to herself and is often on her own anyway as she can't be doing with the nonsense.

my dds must be immune too. Now older (Yrs 8 and 5) but neither encountered problems of this kind.

nokissymum I do hope your school are dealing with it. Swap the boys for girls in your story and see how acceptable that reads back. We had a spate of it but it was managed by the playground assistants after some parents mentioned concerns of it getting out of hand. And girls are bigger than boys at that age. Starts off harmlessly enough but when you have a single child pinned down by a gang of others - nasty.