Dd has just confessed to me that she doesnt want to go back to Guides, because she hasnt made any friends there. I am keeping it fairly light & breezy " oh you haven't been going long, these things take time" but then she said that the last time she was there, a girl from the group she thought she was making friends with told her to go away, and it is just making me want to cry for her.
We moved her primary schools a couple of years ago in Y4 and she still hasn't settled with friends in Y6, with no particular friend or friendship group. She was very close with a couple of girls in the year above last year, but they have moved up to secondary school now and haven't kept in touch despite best efforts.
We are moving house to a new area next month (but she is staying at the same school), so when she finished Brownies in the summer we started her at a Guides in the new area thinking that perhaps she would make some local friends, and they would be outside of school.
She also does a Saturday art club, but I think its a lot of individual work, so hasn't made any particular friendships there either.
I dont want to push the issue but she is so keen to make friends. She has two really good friends outside of school and we see them as much as possible, but they both seem to have wide friendship groups and a lot of playdates & party invites so are often busy, which doesnt help her feel better. She doesn’t want to invite anyone from school round for tea, and I can't remember the last time she had a party or playdate invite.
Any ideas or suggestions would be very welcome. She is such a sweet and funny girl, and it is heartbreaking to see her so miserable and reluctant to go to school and extra clubs.