Party Advice Needed

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I need some advice!! My son starts a new school after summer and as he has not gone to the local nursery he will know very few children in his class. His birthday is within the first 3 weeks of the new term.

He currently goes to the same private nursery as he has done for the past 4 years so has some good friendships there (although very few we keep in touch with out-with nursery).

He has said he wants a party with children from his current nursery and obviously they won't come to a party after summer as their children will be in a different school.

So what I am really asking here is do I give him a party before summer and invite his current nursery friends (although it will be 3 months until his actual birthday) or do I thow one after summer for all the children in his new class?

Sorry I dread this sort of thing. Than you for any advice 😀

Party after summer and invite most of the class - it's actually a brilliant way for you to get to know the families.

I did this with dd1 who is the eldest in her class and started school knowing no one. I invited her old friends and lots of new ones - they all came. It was a bit nerve wracking but it paid off

We were in a similar position and we did a party for new school friends. We felt it was a chance to make other parents aware that we had started at the school. I wanted to do a smaller get together at our house for old friends but DH said two parties was ridiculous! It also, and I was a bit sad about this, put a stop to invitations from the old school friends too but it did mean I didn't have every weekend taken up with parties for old and new school friends.

I invited 3 children round in the July, before my dd started Reception in the September. All 4 of them were taken to the same Nursery school by my CMer, and were with her after Nursery. It was therefore easy to explain to the parents I was just having a little tea party / play in the garden as, having an early September birthday it was going to be difficult to do anything then.
We then had another little party right at the end of September once she was able to say "I want to invite X,Y, and Z" from her new school.

She's always had her parties a few weeks into term ever since (she's 15 now) as she loves having "3 birthdays"

Thank you all for the replies. I think I will go with your advice and invite his new class after summer. Thank you