Reception aged child playing alone at school

[foreverchangingnappies]

As the title says my child is in reception and says he spends most of his time playing on his own at school. He’s perfectly happy there and loves school; and all the other kids call his name when we’re out and seem to like him, but whenever I ask who he played with that day he says he played on his own. Then at the park or even birthday parties he also seems to play on his own rather than others the majority of the time. Yet other kids all seem to play together.

He has a younger sibling who he plays really well with at home.

Should I be worried that he doesn’t really have any specific friendships yet? Or is it still quite young to be worrying?

This is quite normal at reception age. Kids develop social skills at their own pace and in different ways. Just like all adults are different some are very social and have constant dates in their diary whilst others find going out once or twice a month more than enough. We are all different.

thank you @NoKnit I’m hoping as he gets older he develops some nice friendships. Just worry about them playing alone all day

Have you spoken to his Teacher about it @foreverchangingnappies? They might have some insight.

@ExplodingSmittensi have spoken to them and they said he plays fine with other kids and no other teachers have noticed an issue. But they also said he likes to play solo sometimes as well (which is fine of course). I think maybe he’s just being vague about what he actually does at break/lunchtime. I was worried he was spending all his break/lunchtimes alone but that doesn’t seem to be the case according to his teacher.

i think he plays with lots of different kids rather than a few all the time which I guess is a good thing!