Did your child know anyone when they started school??

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We have no pre-schools attached to our primary schools locally so children will be coming from all over the place......worrys me!

Nope. Not a soul. Every-one else there all went to the attatched nursery but we had recently moved, so dd1 didn't go to that nursery. She has a really good group of friends now and settled in really quickly.

DS knew 2 people in his class form nursery, DD knew 1 person.

They were absolutely fine, but it has been harder for me to integrate with the other mums in DD's class, as they nearly all were at the school nursery together.

we moved as well.
she was absolutely fine.
they make new friends anyway

no, ds1 didn't know anyone

i could have sent him to the nursery attached to our catchment school, but i wasn't sure i wanted him to go there so i didn't.
just as well because we decided to put a diff school down as our first choice, which he got into

some of the other children had been to the same local playgroup so already knew each other, but there were a fair few that knew no-one at all.

it has all worked out fine. it did take him a while to make friends, but he has always been like that tbh. the fact that there were others there who knew no-one made it easier I think, there were plenty of them in the same boat.

Agree with Lynette about parents finding it harder. I know I did and still do to be honest.
The kids will just get on with it and will know each other well enough by the end of the week.

Bless them! God must be really quite scary.....for mums more so I get the impression!

DS knew 2 boys, DD1 knew about 3 girls, and DD2 knew 5-6 children but all her friends went into the other class. There is no attached nursery at the school, and two main playgroups and a number of nurseries which feed the school. No real problems. The school does have a sstem of class reps which helps parent meet.

DS2 knew no-one when he started in Reception ( we moved 5 days before term started) then moved schools in yr 5 and knew no-one at his new school, finally moved onto secondary school and knew no-one there (the only one from his school to pass the 11+. DS1 had a similar experience entering yr 2 and secondary. You would be surprised how adaptable children are, parents less so!

dd didn't. She'd had one half day in hte nursery class but all the others in her Recpetion class , bar one , knew each other. Worked out fine.

My DD springs to mind - she went to a lovely nursery whose children went to lots of different schools.

Some were at her school but her best friend was at another school. She recalls in her class from her nursery one boy who she wasn't that close to and a girl who she was friendly with but who moved away after a term anyway.

Do you know what - she is nearly 9 and has a lovely group of friends, made in reception and yr 1 and onwards.

If lots of children come from all over then everyone will be in the same boat as yr DC. HTH

DC's went to private preschool. DS only knew 2 boys and DD knew 2 boys and a girl.
DD was close to the girl and still is at secondary, but had lots of new friends.
DS made new friends when he strted school.